February 19, 201313 yr Ok, my first attempt didn't work at all due to the gimballing problem and the fact that it was probably the most ungainly spacecraft ever designed. I decided to give multi-port docking a try so I altered my designs slightly to have the lander at the front again and use four docking ports to connect it to the transport module. Either they've fixed multi-port docking or I just was incredibly lucky for a change because I got all four to connect on the first try. Rolf Lindbom
February 19, 201313 yr Mission update: Got mysefl into Tylo orbit using significantly more fuel than expected. Did use perigee kicks but skipped aerobraking around Jool because happened to get into Jool's SOI just right for a direct rendez-vous. with Tylo. Don't know if it was a good idea or not but it's done. I'm in orbit and totally out of fuel in the transport module. Even had to nick some from the lander's droptank but hopefully it will be enough anyway. Just gonna have to send for more fuel to get the guys home afterwards Edit: Actually the whole mission turned out to be a miserable failure. It took about tree times as much fuel as anticipated to get down to the surface and there's no way I can bring that much with me with the current configuration. I'll have to rethink the whole thing I guess. I'll try to send it to Moho instead for now. Rolf Lindbom
February 19, 201313 yr Author Well, at least your ship looks good! If you try it again, definitely do the aerobraking at Jool. It may take you a few tries (quicksave as soon as you enter Jool's SOI) at different altitudes, but dipping down to 119 or 120km is typically used for aerocapturing into orbit around Jool with apoapsis near Laythe. You may want to try 1-2km higher since Tylo is further out. Aerocapturing like this will save you something like 2800m/sec of delta-v. That should be enough to adjust your trajectory to reach Tylo and get into orbit with enough left over to make the landing. It may require redesigning the craft to shift some of that saved fuel tankage to the lander, though, so you can use it on the descent. Landing on Tylo is hard. You will be please to know that rovers do appear to be coming in 0.19. Dev Nova posted this image today at Reddit... He commented: Simple mockup of the new short probe core and rover body + small wheels, with kerbal for scale.
February 19, 201313 yr Well, at least your ship looks good! Thanks :smile: If you try it again, definitely do the aerobraking at Jool. It may take you a few tries (quicksave as soon as you enter Jool's SOI) at different altitudes, but dipping down to 119 or 120km is typically used for aerocapturing into orbit around Jool with apoapsis near Laythe. You may want to try 1-2km higher since Tylo is further out. Aerocapturing like this will save you something like 2800m/sec of delta-v. That should be enough to adjust your trajectory to reach Tylo and get into orbit with enough left over to make the landing. It may require redesigning the craft to shift some of that saved fuel tankage to the lander, though, so you can use it on the descent. Landing on Tylo is hard. That may very well be true but I still had 80% fuel left in my droptank after circularizing and I needed about 300% so in the end it was hopeless either way. Back to the drawing board.... You will be please to know that rovers do appear to be coming in 0.19. Dev Nova posted this image today at Reddit... Good news. :smile: Rolf Lindbom
February 20, 201313 yr Author Good news. :smile: And getting better. Another teaser pic posted by Nova.
March 17, 201313 yr Author 0.19 is out, with minor improvements. The big stuff (like resource mining) has slipped to the next update. Some rover parts are now included, so you build ground vehicles. I made a little solar-powered buggy to test them out. I managed to grab some air using the sloped edge of the runway as a ramp. The reentry visual and audible effects are now in as well. Actual heating will probably be in the next update. Oh, and the linux port is now available, too!
March 18, 201313 yr RoboRay, on 18 Mar 2013 - 00:07, said: 0.19 is out, with minor improvements. The big stuff (like resource mining) has slipped to the next update. Some rover parts are now included, so you build ground vehicles. Always something. Did a bit of testing myself. Didn't go well... Rolf Lindbom
March 18, 201313 yr Author You can get in a lot of trouble drag-racing on the runway! I built an open-seat mun-buggy, too. The guys are just holding onto ladder bits, and they tend to slide off when you're driving around, so it's not very usable. Hitting a good bump at high speed launches them right up and out of the vehicle!
March 18, 201313 yr You can get in a lot of trouble drag-racing on the runway!You don't say... Anyway, nice buggys! Rolf Lindbom
March 18, 201313 yr Author Hah, talking about speed... I wanted to see what a really steep and fast reentry would look like, so I dove into the atmosphere at over 3km/sec.
March 18, 201313 yr Here's a real Kerbal nightmare. Anyone wanna check his math? We are all connected..... To each other, biologically...... To the Earth, chemically...... To the rest of the Universe atomically. Devons rig Intel Core i5 13600K @ 5.1GHz / G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB Series Ram 64GB / GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 4070 Ti GAMING OC 12G Graphics Card / Sound Blaster Z / Meta Quest 2 VR Headset / Klipsch® Promedia 2.1 Computer Speakers / ASUS ROG SWIFT PG279Q ‑ 27" IPS LED Monitor ‑ QHD / 1x Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB / 2x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB / 1x Samsung - 970 EVO Plus 2TB NVMe / 1x Samsung 980 NVMe 1TB / 2 other regular hd's with up to 10 terabyte capacity / Windows 11 Pro 64-bit / Gigabyte Z790 Aorus Elite AX Motherboard LGA 1700 DDR5
March 20, 201313 yr Author KSP is now available through Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/220200
March 21, 201313 yr I feel I must pass on this eBook recommendation to the other nerdy space types here. The Martian by Andy Weir Kindle edition $0.99 Check out the reviews on Amazon. A (near) future Mars survival tale. Very heavy on the science involved. Get it on Amazon.com or the Kindle store. The price can't be beat. A very gripping story beginning to end. Steve
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