EVA Race Track Torus Station (beta version)

[1greywind]

EVA race track is space station designed to host racing tournaments in microgravity environment. It features two-side racking track, that starts on the underside of station in zone with green lighting and ends on outer side in blue lighting zone. This is not yet fully completed project but I want to share it to hear some response from the community. My ultimate goal is to create racing Challenge for small RCS maned crafts on this race track. May be with obstacles. Initially I thought about pure EVA jetpack race, but as it turns out current EVA controls are not suitable for flying on rings (you don't have way to rotate camera with your Kerbal)

BTW: Can someone with parts welding experience check the .craft files and give some advice on parts count optimization?

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.craft file with station prepared to launch warning! 1119 parts!

.craft file with station torus only 909 parts

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[astroadrian99]

You know, if you put that on gypsynchrous orbit and you spin it a littlebit, you can create artificial gravity and drive on it.

[1greywind]

You know, if you put that on gypsynchrous orbit and you spin it a littlebit, you can create artificial gravity and drive on it.

You mean centrifugal force? Because there are no such thing as artificial gravity And unfortunately friction in KSP works very weird, wheeled vehicles have big troubles to move over another moving vehicles.

[astroadrian99]

You mean centrifugal force? Because there are no such thing as artificial gravity And unfortunately friction in KSP works very weird, wheeled vehicles have big troubles to move over another moving vehicles.

Yeah centripetal force, but that force technically make artificial gravity but it has to be geostationary orbit so the effect of one craft moving on top of the other (which relative to kerbin in will have 0 m/s) won't act like one moving craft on top of another moving craft.

[1greywind]

@astroadrian99: I have started racing challenge here: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/95366-Zero-G-RCS-Race!

Track is now optimized via parts welding and placed onto Kerbin stationary orbit. So you can check will wheeled vehicles work under centrifugal force or not

[astroadrian99]

@astroadrian99: I have started racing challenge here: http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/95366-Zero-G-RCS-Race!

Track is now optimized via parts welding and placed onto Kerbin stationary orbit. So you can check will wheeled vehicles work under centrifugal force or not

Ok ill try it later cause im doing a proyect for school right now.