Space Station Ideas

[DerPred]

I'm building a Space Station and I already have; Two solar arrays, Habitation Unit, Refueler and Escape Pods i have quite alot more docking ports anything else i can put on it?

[Tank Buddy]

Where is your space station? You have to be careful not to add too many parts or your computer will die.

[capi3101]

Why not a mobile lab unit with a cupola? Just a thought.

[el_coyoto]

There are many more or less silly things that I like putting on my stations :

- Science stuff and a Mobile Processing Lab to clean experiments

- Greenhouses

- Engines!

(Above, one of my career station central nodes on a shakedown cruise before I could unlock the Senior docking port)

Yes, my space stations are just space ships with a bit more room and more docking ports...

Edited January 15, 2014 by el_coyoto
English : do I speak it?

[Taki117]

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/22251-Showcase-SPACE-STATIONS%21-Post-your-pictures-here

Enjoy.

[DerPred]

My Station is 100 above kerbin i already have science lab

[TheGeoninja]

My favorite spacestation orbits minmus and is the first place I ever docked. I would attach a lander to it so you can sweep science from the mun.

[thereaverofdarkness]

This is my favorite fuel station design. I made it before career mode, so it doesn't have any science parts on it. It is a good setup to offer easy docking and lots of fuel storage room combined with easy getting to space and relatively low part count.

[UH60guy]

I make em strictly utilitarian- science module, a few seats in a hitchhiker, and a LOT of fuel. They look like those jacks toys or an asterisk, or the above poster's picture. I don't have a picture of my own handy- but the "core" is a node with conical adapters and clampotron seniors in each of the 6 directions just like the above one. From that central core, one direction has a science module, hitchhiker, and cupola tower. The other five directions have large orange tanks with large RCS tanks. Each orange tank has medium size clampotrons on the sides so smaller ships can dock, as well as large docking ports on the outward end of the fuel tanks for the bigger ships.

Basically, my goal is to get a refuel star/asterisk/jack in orbit around each planet to serve as refuel stations for return trips. I launch at least one orange tank to planets during each launch window. After I've gotten stations established at Moho, Eve, and Duna, I came to realize the only one I never used was the one at Kerbin. It's just simpler and fewer steps to launch a refuel shipment from Kerbin direct to my ships rather than deal with supplying a refuel station.

Edited January 16, 2014 by UH60guy