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Author Topic: Kerbal Space Program: Now Hiring Optimistic Astronauts for Dangerous Munission  (Read 1443900 times)

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Re: Kerbal Space Program: Now Hiring Optimistic Astronauts for Dangerous Munission
« Reply #4890 on: June 23, 2013, 05:45:23 pm »
Kethane is absurdly fun. I'm going to add an empty Xenon tank and have a goal of returning a payload of "Space gas" to KSC.
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Re: Kerbal Space Program: Now Hiring Optimistic Astronauts for Dangerous Munission
« Reply #4891 on: June 25, 2013, 02:53:11 am »
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Re: Kerbal Space Program: Now Hiring Optimistic Astronauts for Dangerous Munission
« Reply #4892 on: June 25, 2013, 05:50:25 am »
Amazing, someone commented that a few decouplers might have allowed some of those shots to go in.
The explosions were good though.
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Re: Kerbal Space Program: Now Hiring Optimistic Astronauts for Dangerous Munission
« Reply #4893 on: June 25, 2013, 06:08:24 am »
What IS that?!
Well, besides cool and awesome.
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Re: Kerbal Space Program: Now Hiring Optimistic Astronauts for Dangerous Munission
« Reply #4894 on: June 25, 2013, 08:16:04 am »
Quote from: Willfor on June 25, 2013, 02:53:11 am
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HAS KERBAL SCIENCE GONE TOO FAR?
OR HAS KERBAL SCIENCE NOT GONE TOO FAR ENOUGH?!
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Re: Kerbal Space Program: Now Hiring Optimistic Astronauts for Dangerous Munission
« Reply #4895 on: June 25, 2013, 06:17:33 pm »
I crash landed on the Mün... I like this lander though. It needs more fuel, but it's a good start.
Now to rescue the poor kerbals...
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Luckily, the third one is still in orbit around the Mun and can get back to Kerbin, so there's that. The lander has no fuel left, so even if it was upright, I couldn't get it back to orbit, sadly.

On other news, my probe design is apparently able to reach pretty much anywhere. I got one to Duna with a lot of fuel to spare (about half of it).
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Another is around the Mun. I attempted Duna when I saw how much fuel it had left (more than 3/4). Munar slingshot is hard, but the nodes make so much easier.

And I docked two ships together! AND IT'S HORRIFYINGLY HARD.
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Mind you, I barely played the previous versions (The best I did was landing on the Mün without dying), and I downloaded the 0.20.2 less than 48 hours earlier. The docking was between my 5th and 6th things in orbit. (first was a test, second a cute satellite in polar orbit, 3rd and 4th a failed docking attempt, 5-6 the successful one, 7th a munar probe, 8th the Duna one, 9th a failed manned mun flight (not enough fuel, did not break orbit), 10th the crash-munlanding. Plus a dozen aborted flights.).

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Re: Kerbal Space Program: Now Hiring Optimistic Astronauts for Dangerous Munission
« Reply #4896 on: June 25, 2013, 11:29:06 pm »
Orbits are fun.  If you're on the same orbital plane as the Mun, your orbit is eccentric enough, and you're patient enough, you can get flung out of the kerbin orbit without using any fuel.  Gravity slingshots are incredible things.

If you've got Mechjeb 2 in, you can play with maneuver nodes.  Simply place a node, and change the thrust until you intercept an orbital body at any point (ie, the orbit of the craft will cross the orbit of the Mun at some point) then slide it forwards and back in time until it gets an encounter.  Using mechjeb, you can fine-tune the timing and thrust of the node to achieve some pretty exact slingshots.
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Re: Kerbal Space Program: Now Hiring Optimistic Astronauts for Dangerous Munission
« Reply #4897 on: June 26, 2013, 01:30:15 am »
Yeah, I've used gravity slingshots to get rockets made to get to the mun all the way out of the solar system.
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Re: Kerbal Space Program: Now Hiring Optimistic Astronauts for Dangerous Munission
« Reply #4898 on: June 26, 2013, 08:38:56 pm »
Hey guys, been a while, but I've got a new game going, starting with my new Kethane probe:


If you're wondering, I'm using Hexcans, a very nifty modular resource can pack, which makes for some very compact probes and ships.

This is the Taltrek-1 in orbit of Minmus:
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Re: Kerbal Space Program: Now Hiring Optimistic Astronauts for Dangerous Munission
« Reply #4899 on: June 26, 2013, 09:53:06 pm »
Well, it's not my first time landing on Duna, but it's the first time I've planted a flag on it:

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Re: Kerbal Space Program: Now Hiring Optimistic Astronauts for Dangerous Munission
« Reply #4900 on: June 27, 2013, 02:24:44 pm »
Quote from: Girlinhat on June 25, 2013, 08:16:04 am
Quote from: Willfor on June 25, 2013, 02:53:11 am
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HAS KERBAL SCIENCE GONE TOO FAR?
OR HAS KERBAL SCIENCE NOT GONE TOO FAR ENOUGH?!
Is there such a thing as too too far? We can always go too farther!
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Re: Kerbal Space Program: Now Hiring Optimistic Astronauts for Dangerous Munission
« Reply #4901 on: June 27, 2013, 02:40:11 pm »
Quote from: Graknorke on June 27, 2013, 02:24:44 pm
Quote from: Girlinhat on June 25, 2013, 08:16:04 am
Quote from: Willfor on June 25, 2013, 02:53:11 am
Kerbal Space Jam
HAS KERBAL SCIENCE GONE TOO FAR?
OR HAS KERBAL SCIENCE NOT GONE TOO FAR ENOUGH?!
Is there such a thing as too too far? We can always go too farther!
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LosDelMango 19 hours ago
PUT THE HOOP AT THE SPACE CENTER.
DO A DUNK FROM ORBIT.
That needs to be done.
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Re: Kerbal Space Program: Now Hiring Optimistic Astronauts for Dangerous Munission
« Reply #4902 on: June 27, 2013, 03:31:32 pm »
Quote from: Alkhemia on June 27, 2013, 02:40:11 pm
Quote from: Graknorke on June 27, 2013, 02:24:44 pm
Quote from: Girlinhat on June 25, 2013, 08:16:04 am
Quote from: Willfor on June 25, 2013, 02:53:11 am
Kerbal Space Jam
HAS KERBAL SCIENCE GONE TOO FAR?
OR HAS KERBAL SCIENCE NOT GONE TOO FAR ENOUGH?!
Is there such a thing as too too far? We can always go too farther!
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LosDelMango 19 hours ago
PUT THE HOOP AT THE SPACE CENTER.
DO A DUNK FROM ORBIT.
That needs to be done.
Scott Manley dropped a tungsten rod from orbit and hit the VAB without further adjustment.  I'm still trying to figure out how.  Hitting the hoop with a giant ball would be easy!
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Re: Kerbal Space Program: Now Hiring Optimistic Astronauts for Dangerous Munission
« Reply #4903 on: June 27, 2013, 04:14:35 pm »
Scott Manley is KSP god.
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Quote from: wierd on January 11, 2014, 01:49:58 am
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Re: Kerbal Space Program: Now Hiring Optimistic Astronauts for Dangerous Munission
« Reply #4904 on: June 27, 2013, 04:15:57 pm »
Math. It is evil and awe-inspiring

From what I can tell that rod had very little drag, and thus deviated not mutch at all...
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