kerbol

[The mun]

what are some of the kerbol orbits you have made

[PetahSchwetah]

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Edited January 14 by PetahSchwetah

[fedemotta3]

Every time you launch a rocket somewhere basically

[Lobo1544]

Has anyone ever sent a probe ( or a manned capsule...) into the sun? I think i'm going to have to try that...

[Deltac]

Has anyone ever sent a probe ( or a manned capsule...) into the sun? I think i'm going to have to try that...

I did that back in .18 I believe, and never got to the surface before the capsule crashed into an invisible barrier (no overheat problems). So we can say this, "The surface of Kerbol is hard."

[Vanamonde]

Send a probe on a low sun orbit. There are details you can't see from a distance.

[FITorion]

My latest attempt is a little over 3,000,000m from it at closest approach with its high point being within the orbit of Moho.

I was just 55m/s away from getting it under 50Km... I'm going to have to try again.

[FellipeC]

Why in game, Kerbol is referenced as Sun?

[SpaceSphereOfDeath]

Why in game, Kerbol is referenced as Sun?

Because kerbol is a community made name

[sal_vager]

I think it has been officially adopted now, though it's still a sun

[spikeyhat09]

I think it has been officially adopted now, though it's still a sun

i thought i remembered hearing somewhere that squad will only name the star if/when there are other solar systems... is that still true?

[FITorion]

I'm trying to figure out minimum safe orbit distance.

Saw a video where they exploded at 1300m. In my game questions thread people are saying around 2000m is explosion territory.

I'm currently trying for a 10Km orbit. Seems there is only 2 Sun biomes though. High and Near. There does not appear to be a low orbit biome... Oh well.

[FITorion]

do really close orbits of Kerbol decay?

I aimed for 10km. Got 8Km. When I got close it was 7Km. when I was on Peri... it was 5.9Km ... now I'm on my way back to Apo and my predicted Peri is still falling... I'm going to have to make a burn to get back up to 10Km at Apo...

No throttle... Did they add a thin atmosphere without letting it indicate on the gauge? Is this just rounding errors? What's going on?

My apo appears to be rising too. Did they add solar wind? Could my gigantor solar panels be acting like solar sails? (I don't think they did... but I'm running out of ideas here)

... turned off SAS in case that was causing it. It's not.

where is this phantom force coming from?

Edited October 27, 2013 by FITorion

[RocketPilot573]

Has anyone done an EVA report while only a few KM from the surface?

[kurja]

I think it has been officially adopted now, though it's still a sun

I'm not so sure, afaik Sun=Sol and not Sun=any star?

That is, Sun is the star at the center of our Solar system, any other star is not "a sun".

[FITorion]

That was really weird. Only while close to the Sun ... limited to 1x time warp... my orbit was being modified with out any indication of a cause. Once I got far enough away to time warp the changes stopped... but only after I actually time warped.

I'm not so sure, afaik Sun=Sol and not Sun=any star?

That is, Sun is the star at the center of our Solar system, any other star is not "a sun".

The star (or stars) at the center of any solar System is(or are) that Solar Systems Sun(s). Our Sun is named Sol. The Sun of the Kerbal System has been named Kerbol.

Edited October 27, 2013 by FITorion

[OrtwinS]

I'm not so sure, afaik Sun=Sol and not Sun=any star?

That is, Sun is the star at the center of our Solar system, any other star is not "a sun".

I disagree, 'Sol' is our sun, but 'Kerbol' (or however you want to call it) is Kerbin's sun.

When we, earthlings, talk about THE sun, we mean Sol, the thing Earth orbits.

When Kerbals talk about the sun, they mean theirs.

Don't forget, in thousands of pieces of fiction that take place on other worlds characters or story tellers refer all the time to 'the sun', or mention things like "oh this world has 2 suns!", or "When our sun died, we migrated into space." In all those cases, they weren't talking about Sol.

'Sun' is a title we grant to any star when referring to it from the perspective of one of its planets.

[SRV Ron]

Send a probe, not Jeb into the sun. It takes a lot of delta V to get the intercept. At present, the probe will survive until it gets closer then 1,500 meters. Then, Poof!