My Entire Career Mode, probably picture heavy, semi RP

[xXIndestructibleEVAXx]

I will document my entire career mode, launch by launch, in semi roleplay, in pictures, in this thread, starting this post.

Kerbal Origin:

Kerbals live underground, came to surface, saw the stars, wanted to space, yada yada yada. Here's the twist: The big 3, Jeb, Bob, and Bill, are dead. They died in an accident when they tried to launch a rocket at an unknown location. This program was founded in their memory. Most dismiss us as amateurs, but we soon disproved that with superior funding.

Now, for a tour of the Solar System in the latest in computer and color screen technology!

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Now, the opening of the program and the first 2 launches. This is the beginning of the greatest era of kerbal kind. 50 images in the album:

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There you go!

[Shania_L]

Hey nice start, interested to see where this goes, with OPM probably a very long way!!

Question for you, do you use deadly re-entry? if so how did you get the parachutes to open on the sounding rockets without ripping off?

I have both of those mods and I never managed to recover a sounding rocket until I fitted it with a heatshield (high drag) to slow it down enough.

[xXIndestructibleEVAXx]

yes, I do run with DRE. I (so far) haven't had a situation where a sounding rocket is in danger from reentry. But there is a warning that says "unsafe to deploy parachute" wait until that goes away to deploy. If that isn't appearing, then go take it up in the DRE thread. I am playing with a semi-oudated version (fear of breaking stuff prevents an update)

so it may be different for you. Try not decoupling the engines to increase drag. This should work in both stock and FAR. (I'm using FAR)

EDIT: If you are using NEAR, try upgrading to FAR. NEAR is pretty much the same, just without mach effects. Those same effects add a bunch of drag at high velocities, including during reentry.

Edited February 13, 2015 by xXIndestructibleEVAXx

[zekes]

I love the thoroughness - nice job!

[xXIndestructibleEVAXx]

Wow, I didn't think I would attract the attention of someone as popular as Zekes! Thanks! I'll post more soon, maybe on the weekend. School is dumb.

[Nitrous Oxide]

I've been thinking about doing something like this, kudos. Always fun to see what other people do.

[xXIndestructibleEVAXx]

Thanks for the support, Nitrous Oxide. Do whatever you want, and don't stop.

[Shania_L]

yes, I do run with DRE. I (so far) haven't had a situation where a sounding rocket is in danger from reentry. But there is a warning that says "unsafe to deploy parachute" wait until that goes away to deploy. If that isn't appearing, then go take it up in the DRE thread. I am playing with a semi-oudated version (fear of breaking stuff prevents an update)

so it may be different for you. Try not decoupling the engines to increase drag. This should work in both stock and FAR. (I'm using FAR)

EDIT: If you are using NEAR, try upgrading to FAR. NEAR is pretty much the same, just without mach effects. Those same effects add a bunch of drag at high velocities, including during reentry.

I am using FAR s well.

It is not re-entry that is the problem (although I got a sounding rocket out of atmo they mostly dont get that high) they are just ridiculously slippy. Even peaking at 10-15Km they fall point first and accelerate, the unsafe parachute message pops up and they hit the ground still travelling above Mach1.

Is there a way to disable the auto-decouple? because Im pretty sure all the solid motors for sounding rockets separate as soon as they burn out.

[xXIndestructibleEVAXx]

Hmmm... I'm don't know if you can disable it. Also, what version of the sounding rocket mod are you using? I'm using the 0.2 prerelease, for the extra parts and balloons. You could always find the parachute part cfg and up the drag/resistance. Not actually sure if you can do that, might be worth the try though. I'll try uploading a new part when I get home. I'm at school now, just got a 100 on biology test.

[xXIndestructibleEVAXx]

New album, detailing the construction of two new vessels. No launches yet, though. Here it is:

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[Shania_L]

29 days for a can+balloon? It really shouldnt take that long ... or you'll be waiting years to build a mun lander

How have you distributed your KCT points? It looks like you have 2 (or more) concurrent build queues at the VAB, and judging by the rate your science unlocked you have put a fair few into R&D.

I have 0.11 of the pre-release, so perhaps its not the latest version, either way my career has gone a little beyond sounding rockets now anyway. I have a career thread in this section too it seems we have taken pretty similar routes so far, I look forward to seeing how you progress.

[xXIndestructibleEVAXx]

Here's the nxt album, with the launch of Success 2-1:

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[xXIndestructibleEVAXx]

29 days for a can+balloon? It really shouldnt take that long ... or you'll be waiting years to build a mun lander

How have you distributed your KCT points? It looks like you have 2 (or more) concurrent build queues at the VAB, and judging by the rate your science unlocked you have put a fair few into R&D.

I have 0.11 of the pre-release, so perhaps its not the latest version, either way my career has gone a little beyond sounding rockets now anyway. I have a career thread in this section too it seems we have taken pretty similar routes so far, I look forward to seeing how you progress.

Well, that was the second, slower sequence, and I was building Success 2-1 at the same time, so that was using the faster sequence. And, I hadn't used most of those parts before, and the ones I had used before were being put on Success 2-1, so I had to build more of them, increasing construction time.

edit: I put two points into the first sequence, then the rest into R&D.

[xXIndestructibleEVAXx]

Okay, sorry, but I am officially shutting this down. I will, however, start a new one fairly soon.