My Kerbin needs a good cleaning of debris

[CrazedGunman502]

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Uh.. Yeah... Looks great doesn't it?

But that's not the end of it...

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Post some screenshots of the debris orbiting your Kerbin!

[Dooz]

I don't have a screen shot but mine is like a ring Minmus gots a ring to!

[DisarmingBaton5]

May I ask what that debris is doing outside Jool's orbit? (assuming it's on the same plane)

[europa99]

You could go to the tracking station and select the debris. Then you could click the button in the left-hand corner that says terminate. This will clear your debris however this is not realistic and with that insane amount of debris it might take a while.

[boomerdog2000]

May I ask what that debris is doing outside Jool's orbit? (assuming it's on the same plane)

Could have been drop tanks from a Jool mission that got sling-shot out by its gravity, couple of my tanks ended up out there apparently.

[LameLefty]

You could go to the tracking station and select the debris. Then you could click the button in the left-hand corner that says terminate. This will clear your debris however this is not realistic and with that insane amount of debris it might take a while.

You could also just go into Settings and change Max Persistent Debris to 0 and clear it out.

[I_Killed_Jeb]

or you could just plan your missions in a manner that deorbits all debris

[LameLefty]

or you could just plan your missions in a manner that deorbits all debris

That's really hard to do early in Career Mode unless you're using mods that unlock automated tasks or edit config files to unlock in-line probe cores out of sequence. With the stock Tech Tree, you're almost certain to litter LKO and parts of the entire solar system with spent stages or drop tanks.

[I_Killed_Jeb]

That's really hard to do early in Career Mode unless you're using mods that unlock automated tasks or edit config files to unlock in-line probe cores out of sequence. With the stock Tech Tree, you're almost certain to litter LKO and parts of the entire solar system with spent stages or drop tanks.

I disagree, although I think for a n00b this is 100% true. I used to just LITTER pretty much all equatorial orbits everywhere. But even with career mode, if you're a more seasoned builder (and not too impatient and trying to unlock ALL THE THINGSSSS as soon as possible) you can lithobrake all of your debris. For example, on Mun missions you can set your initial intercept orbit to crash into the Mun, hit that separatron, and then use your orbital stage to raise the periapsis

edit: not calling you, LameLefty, a n00b! just a general point =)

[Deejay2000]

Clean up debris?

I say it's an achievement to create artificial rings around planets.

[Duxwing]

That's really hard to do early in Career Mode unless you're using mods that unlock automated tasks or edit config files to unlock in-line probe cores out of sequence. With the stock Tech Tree, you're almost certain to litter LKO and parts of the entire solar system with spent stages or drop tanks.

I flew early Career Mode without mods, and I never had a problem with debris or needed drop tanks. Granted, I have been playing KSP for more than a year, but even in the .13 demo I never left debris.

-Duxwing

[Luckless]

Personally I started playing the game with the goal of always making sure as much unneeded material would either crash on its own with the staging system, or would be a probe with enough power and fuel to get it on path to a safe crash.

Now I go the other direction. If I can stage a ship with 3 or 4 tanks in a radial mount where I could have used a larger inline, I'll go with the 3 or 4 option just to scatter more stuff up there.

[katateochi]

@LameLefty as others have said, its very possible to leave Kerbin spotless in career mode. But equally those of us saying that tend to have been at this for a wee while! I always make craft so that the transfer stage completes the circularization burn and the final ascent stage gets dropped before the Pe goes about 20km. If I have anything else to drop after that I make small adjustments so I have a collision course with the destination body and then drop the debris once I'm in the targets SOI before then raising the orbit back up.

[FenrirWolf]

I'm rather good at keeping my space clean... But now I find that boring! I'm starting to intentionally leave stuff up there to see if I'll get a totally random collision out of nowhere one of these days.

[Starwhip]

What is lithobraking? I've heard of aerobraking, and used it, but I don't know what the first is.

[Wallace]

That's really hard to do early in Career Mode unless you're using mods that unlock automated tasks or edit config files to unlock in-line probe cores out of sequence. With the stock Tech Tree, you're almost certain to litter LKO and parts of the entire solar system with spent stages or drop tanks.

You don't need inline probe cores to deorbit your stages, use a strut to attach a stayputnik radially, you can tilt it up so it's pointing the right way too.

[minerman30]

What is lithobraking? I've heard of aerobraking, and used it, but I don't know what the first is.

"Litho" meaning "Rock".

[chuangatronic]

I've become a huge believer in lithobraking all stages. I've sent 2 missions to the Mun and 2 missions to Minimus with early tech stages and all I do is crash my spent stages into my target planet and then adjust my trajectory for circular orbit.

My biggest problem is that my upper launch stages decouple at a 100km x 60km orbit but I can't just let my the debris orbit decay in time warp. I pretty much have to watch each individual piece of debris crash into Kerbin. I noticed that unless I'm actively watching the debris, there is no aerodynamic drag to aerobrake.

[thiosk]

Non-rescue missions I put all early stages with parachutes. Once cashmoneykerbalbucks are implemented, all that garbage will be money floating around pointlessly. Anything that seems to have value I try not to litter. I don't have quite enough oomph yet in career to carry the extra weight of making upper stages capable of self-deorbits so I just try to drop most of them prior to attaining orbit and hope the parachute works.

[Demon_82]

My Kerbol System in career and in sandbox is filled with space debris. I try to deorbit what has fuel left, which is not something really common in me but I somewhat ilke the idea of getting some slim chances to hit something by accident xD

[CrazedGunman502]

Could have been drop tanks from a Jool mission that got sling-shot out by its gravity, couple of my tanks ended up out there apparently.

Yes, those 2 not far from eeloo orbit, have been slingshotted out. The one that's completely out of the solar system, that's a mission meant to go on forever, to search for new planets. Apparently it counts it as "debris"

[I_Killed_Jeb]

Yes, those 2 not far from eeloo orbit, have been slingshotted out. The one that's completely out of the solar system, that's a mission meant to go on forever, to search for new planets. Apparently it counts it as "debris"

you can rename/relabel crafts fyi

[AmpsterMan]

Ever since we have had the ability to toggle debris in the map view I don't care for Kessler Syndrome. It's almost like a badge of honor IMO.

[spacetortoise1]

I love debris, I always hope for a random collision. Even though that's unlikely, I've heard of it happening.

[Madrias]

Depends on my save file. In my KSP .21, my orbit is squeaky clean because I designed all parts to deorbit one way or another. In .20, I've got an orbital nightmare (as in "single stage to orbit? I've just got single stage to debris" class), and in my .22 Career save, I'm starting to accumulate debris.