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Haha, it looks like all your kerbonauts have discovered the fuel gauge! :D

The way you describe this it sounds like you could only get one go at this, so i suspect this little tip may help: Hit F5 to save and F9 to load. Its even possible to save/load more games than the quicksaved ones by moving your sagegames/persistent files around...

Thanks.. That would have been really nice to know beforehand!

In that attempt I did manage to shed about 150m/s of speed in three thrusts, so I know it is enough fuel to land if I had just waited.

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As it turns out, orbits don\'t decline when you are not actually piloting your ship. And as everyone already know, you can only do 2x time warp below 70km. This means i cant watch it from another ship in higher orbit with higher time warp. I have to watch it decline at 2x speed.

Together this makes up for a lengthy decline, my craft is still declining. I don\'t even think i have enough fuel....

How can i disable the time warp safety?

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About 2X warp the game put parts \'on rails\': no forces are applied; if you managed to find a way around the limitation, your orbit wouldn\'t decline at all.

I wish they would lower the 70km limit to 60km as it is declining orbits above 60km that takes 'forever'. Riight, then it wouldn\'t decline at all...oh well..

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Why is mine yellow?

I shall swap the order of the tanks. My crew are already experienced crash landers, however i doubt there will be enough fuel left. We will either need a parachute or some kind of big landing cushion to pull this off. ;D

Mine is yellow. My best theory is that the KSP developers have chosen a very particular shade of yellow that only superior, slightly more evolved members of the human race are able to identify correctly.

In more relevant news, my first attempt yielded a 110,090m x 68,936m orbit with approximately one pixel of fuel remaining. Don\'t like the chances of a comfortable landing, chaps, but with any luck your names will all be engraved on a bench in a bus stop somewhere. You shall live on!

...and I shall try again, possibly with a parachute and a better ascent profile.

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Bill, Bob and Jeb has already landed. 8)

You will need more than 1 pixel to make it. I had about 3. And i can recommend hitting the 'brakes' at approximately 360 meters above the ground. And don\'t land in water, the rest of your craft serve as 0 shock absorber then.

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Yeah - they didn\'t make it. I underestimated the efficiency of the retrograde burn at Ap, and used all of my pixel bringing the Pe down. It went from 68,900m to 20,500 quicker than I could notice and hit X, otherwise I might have had a chance at scrubbing off a couple of m/s before the final splash put the horrified guys out of their misery.

Adding a parachute makes the craft behave like a drunken librarian on a tightrope. No 0.1-mass ASAS for me. Might leave it behind next time.

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3 brave kerbonauts make touchdown!!!!!

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Very impressive :)

Its amazing what can be achieved with such tiny craft, especially considering how large I\'m sure all of our first orbiters were (I know mine was more then 10x this size).

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Yeah - they didn\'t make it. I underestimated the efficiency of the retrograde burn at Ap, and used all of my pixel bringing the Pe down. It went from 68,900m to 20,500 quicker than I could notice and hit X, otherwise I might have had a chance at scrubbing off a couple of m/s before the final splash put the horrified guys out of their misery.

Adding a parachute makes the craft behave like a drunken librarian on a tightrope. No 0.1-mass ASAS for me. Might leave it behind next time.

Hit CAPSLOCK for precision mode. And remember you can save/load the game with F5/F9.

Very impressive :)

Its amazing what can be achieved with such tiny craft, especially considering how large I\'m sure all of our first orbiters were (I know mine was more then 10x this size).

Much appreciated.

It is also amazing how much the atmosphere brakes your craft down and how little fuel you need to make a landing.

I made my first orbit with srb\'s only 8) they are my fav!

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  • 3 months later...

The yellow circle with T-shape wings is prograde, the slightly green-ish one with an X inside and triad-shape wings is retrograde.

By the way, depending on the design, you can turn far away from your direction of travel with only slight penalty. (Unless it tumbles and everyone dies horribly.) 'Steering drag' is tiny compared to gravity drag and aerodynamic drag.

I\'ll try this challenge as soon as I can, but it\'s 'off to work' for now.

Nice flying, everyone!

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