Unsure about rocketry and gaining altitude

[Pecan]

Tested and got an AP of ... 55km. Solution confirmed, I think.

(When you move the decoupler up to the engine it will normally 'snap' to the top connector but if you continue to move the mouse up it can snap to the lower one.)

[Arctodus]

You are most welcome, this can happen with thin parts, you need to be careful when attaching these kinds of parts.

Tested and got an AP of ... 55km. Solution confirmed, I think.

(When you move the decoupler up to the engine it will normally 'snap' to the top connector but if you continue to move the mouse up it can snap to the lower one.)

You guys ROCK! Thank you very much for the help, it has most definitely been solved

There may have been some cheering at Mission Control when my rocket breached 60km and continued rising! Woop woop! Thank you everybody who replied, for your help

[Taki117]

You guys ROCK! Thank you very much for the help, it has most definitely been solved

There may have been some cheering at Mission Control when my rocket breached 60km and continued rising! Woop woop! Thank you everybody who replied, for your help

For future reference a picture is worth a thousand words. but I'm glad you got everything figured out. To change this thread to answered edit the first post and click go-advanced.

[Arctodus]

Sorted, Thanks all

*sets up a photobucket for screenshots*

[SRV Ron]

Found your issue! Your LV-909 appears to be attached to the bottom node of the decoupler, and the tank attached to the top, this will cause the decoupler to not function properly and actually end up blocking the thrust of the LV-909. Pull off the tank, re-install your decoupler (Ensuring the nodes are properly attached) then attach the tank to the bottom of the decoupler. Happy flying.

Most certainly the problem although I couldn't get the fuel tank to attach when the decoupler hooked up in the wrong spot. Tested the flight as set up on the tutorial. First stage powered to 23,000 meters, second stage to 109,000 meters. AP at 369,000 when launched straight up and will land in the ocean. Edit, Nope, landed just West of the high mountains. Jeb landed perfectly in the flat valley surrounded by mountains and hills.

BTW, running KSP Stock and the internet browser at the same time. The Windows key switches to the browser and the KSP icon on the taskbar back to KSP.

The design, although odd, is capable of a quality sub orbital.

Edit 2, except that it is so stable it is extremely difficult to do the orbital turn.

Edited March 19, 2014 by SRV Ron

[Taki117]

Sorted, Thanks all

*sets up a photobucket for screenshots*

Most people here use Imgur so that they can post whole albums.

[SRV Ron]

I would move the three SRB's into the 1st stage by themselves and only activate the t-30 after they burn out. Also I'm not sure bout it looks like the decoupler on the 909 is upside down causing it to stay on the rocket (and probably blocking the thrust as far as the game engine is concerned.".

Actually, there are far better designs for that combo. However, as a tutorial under Career Mode, with no vertical decouplers available, this design works just fine for a deep space suborbital flight to gain science points and lands in the perfect spot in the mountains. (Parachutes on the booster useless, but a nice touch for recovering the first stage in some future version of KSP.) The decoupler was in the correct orientation but snapped into the wrong place causing the LV-909 to lose all of its thrust.

[Arctodus]

Most people here use Imgur so that they can post whole albums.

Cheers for the heads up Never used Imgur before, I'll give it a go.