blossm13 Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 can someone please make a ship that a)is made of only stock parts (or has mods that arent 'cheating' + links) and can fly to the mun and back with ample fuel (i cant grasp fuel efficiency)much apreciated my ships turn out like thisTHANX HEAPS blossm13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascensiam Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Rocket Science, it just isn\'t easy, not even in this game.You need to practice and practice more, it\'s so much more satisfying to accomplish it yourself rather than going to the point of asking others for a ship.Trust me, keep going strong, it\'ll be like a victory when you do it right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonLorenzo Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Can you do orbits? One step at a time!edit: also, show us some ships you make and blow up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Australian Sloth Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Another tip is to keep it simple, you don\'t need to land much on the mun, just the pod a parachute and the engine with fuel, possibly a decoupler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ascensiam Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 To give some inspiration, here\'s the first craft i landed on the Mun:When it decouples at it\'s various stages to enter the next phase, it always had 1/5-1/4 fuel left, so it\'s pretty safe and has a good error tolerance.In addition, it is very stable and doesn\'t wobble the slightest, which means it has a good aerodynamic economy and steering reliability, beyond that, it\'s just a stock rocket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal_vager Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 If you\'d like to see some designs by other people you are welcome to have a look through the Stock Repository.http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?topic=6409.0I\'d recommend my own rockets but they are all good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vexx32 Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Y\'know, if humans were indestructible, we\'d be able to fly our rockets manually -- it\'s like anything, you just need practice Problem is, if you make a mistake, you\'re dead, so practice and experience is a bit hard to get xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xclusiv8 Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 I suggest that you try to look at some of the others around here. There are many good designs. I\'ll share my first design that made it to the mun and back. Its a little hard to maneuverer with all the stages attached but once you get out of the atmosphere you have plenty of time to adjust and move the rocket around. =) Oh yeah, it has plenty of fuel for errors. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11003858/MoonRocket%208.rar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjwt Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Check this one out,Its by Kosmo-not, and comes with a video showing how to get to the Mun and back on 5 tanks of Fuel, I could only manage it on 6 until I say this!It shows you how to fly like a pro!http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?topic=8278.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ydoow Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 More than likely, if you can\'t make it to the Mun, you can\'t make a proper orbit (no offense aimed at you!).Definitely work for an orbit first. It really doesn\'t take a whole lot to get a craft into orbit, and not much more to get it to the Mun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blossm13 Posted April 20, 2012 Author Share Posted April 20, 2012 More than likely, if you can\'t make it to the Mun, you can\'t make a proper orbit (no offense aimed at you!).Definitely work for an orbit first. It really doesn\'t take a whole lot to get a craft into orbit, and not much more to get it to the Mun i can get into orbit and make my ap get to 11,400,000 metres but from there i start orbiting the mun and fly off never to be seen again (or i hit the mun) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferram4 Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 You want your ap to be greater than the Mun\'s orbit. Keep in mind that you need to be close to it to go into orbit but if you put your apoapsis at the Mun\'s orbital radius you\'ll get smacked by the Mun as it comes around. Aim for about 12,400,000~14,000,000m. This will give you a nice free-return trajectory to Kerbin if you don\'t do anything, and will make sure you don\'t hit the Mun. Make sure that once you get into the Mun\'s sphere of influence you burn retrograde at periapsis to get a nice orbit. For landing, you want to try and kill all of your horizontal velocity and baby it down. Don\'t worry about getting back the first time, just land. You\'ll get a better feel for it with practice. And if you want to come back, make sure you don\'t use a ship that\'s designed to land on its engine. It\'s very easy to lose the engine on landing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOOMH Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 To expand on ferram\'s landing tips here\'s a video demostration of it. (not my video btw)KSP: Mun landing tutorialMy rocket if flown right has more than enough fuel in it to make many munar orbital translations and to land. It\'s really not an original design so I won\'t post any .craft files for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blossm13 Posted April 20, 2012 Author Share Posted April 20, 2012 i just got to the moon and the surface was at 1500 and WAS NOT THERE I WENT THRU THE MOON ????? any ideas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UmbralRaptor Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 i just got to the moon and the surface was at 1500 and WAS NOT THERE I WENT THRU THE MOON ????? any ideasWhat\'s your Planet Detail Factor set to? If it\'s low (especially 0), try increasing it to 70-100%. Performance should still be acceptable, even on a Pentium 4 and Radeon 9xxx equivalent video card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blossm13 Posted April 21, 2012 Author Share Posted April 21, 2012 the thing is i dont have a video card and dont know were my planet detail factor iss? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vexx32 Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 What? Need to be a little more descriptive, but I think what you\'re after is the graphics settings. From the main menu, go into the options menu and pick the Graphics section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blossm13 Posted April 22, 2012 Author Share Posted April 22, 2012 ohkay and hers one of my designs if a ddecemnt piolit (as i am not one) could tell me if its possible to land and return from moon and please sort if ro my it would be great thanks!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SubOrbitalGuy Posted April 23, 2012 Share Posted April 23, 2012 ohkay and hers one of my designs if a ddecemnt piolit (as i am not one) could tell me if its possible to land and return from moon and please sort if ro my it would be great thanks!.It is possible to do it! Was nice to use some manual steering again after some while I took some screenshots of my mission to the moon with your rocket:(I hope the dropbox gallery works for this, if not i can re-upload somewhere else)https://www.dropbox.com/gallery/9478008/1/KSP-moon-mission-blossm13rocket?h=5becceExplanations to each picture:01: Fuel levels after getting into a nice 159x151 km orbit02: Getting to the Mun (i always go east, 90 degrees on the navball)03: Fuel levels after adjusting orbit for Mun intercept04: Fuel levels after a nice 60x55 km Mun orbit insertion05: First try landing after getting rid of some orbital velocity06: First try landing after some more breaking07: Fuel levels for landing08: Ready for landing nearly zero velocity and very low09: SURPRISE: solid rocket booster in the next stage 10: New trajectory after solid rocket booster burnout11: Fuel level after breaking with last stage12: Nearly landed on the surface, there there are no landing struts 13: Abort of landing, let\'s head back home14: Heading back from Mun15: Fuel level after getting to intercept orbit for landing16: Reeintry before landing17: Using parachute to land18: Savely landet, everyone still alive Some thoughts:The RCS in the first stage are useless because the winglets are good enough, I suggest deleting the RCS (and RCS fuel tanks).Solid rocket boosters are only useful if used very early (first stage), because it\'s not possible to regulate thrust or shut them down, replace with liquid engine and tank.Get some landing struts on there, balancing on a single engine will end with explosion on the mun.It\'s a bit difficult to get to orbit with the 4 engines in the second (?) stage, the 4 engines in the middle. They are a bit weak and changing direction is difficult, and they are underpowered for that part of the flight, i suggest shortening the first stage and using gimbaling engines after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blossm13 Posted April 24, 2012 Author Share Posted April 24, 2012 u were ment to land on the winglets on the stage b4 the srb oh ad howd u get trees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SubOrbitalGuy Posted April 25, 2012 Share Posted April 25, 2012 Not enough fuel in that stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blossm13 Posted April 26, 2012 Author Share Posted April 26, 2012 ok do you want to help me make a good rocket please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havoc1482 Posted April 26, 2012 Share Posted April 26, 2012 Set small goals. My first goal was getting to space. Now my goal is simple to smash my rocket into the surface, because I haven\'t grasped the concept of how to use the landing legs haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vexx32 Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 Well, that really depends on your flying style. I myself can reliably reach the Mun, land and return with some small amount of fuel to spare with this rocket:http://www.sporemodding.com/stuff/MITM-I.craftBut that doesn\'t instantly mean someone who hasn\'t flown it before will be able to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitchen_Duty Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 so this is my moon landing rocket, should be enough to get you there and back. It helps not to jetison the legs+ fuel tanks unless they are out of fuel. If some part fails, sorry, I use a lot of mods but this one should be completely stock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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