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[10ebbor10]

Out of fuel? Or air?

[da_nang]

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See if you can spot the problem!

I don't see Jeb riding it like a boss, laughing maniacally as he flies it into the control tower...

[LordSlowpoke]

I'll go with not enough scoops.

[Pyre]

Neither actually(well, not directly). It likes to pitch unless ASAS is on, and you need to turn ASAS off in order to pitch down and level out for speed building. it decided to pitch down 180 degrees, causing a flame-out, leading to a spin, leading to an engine nacelle breaking off, leading to the closest equivalent of a tantrum spiral I have ever seen outside of DF. Was much fun, and Bill was pulling 4 Gs from the spin.

[da_nang]

What's the mass/lift distribution?

[Pyre]

Com is about a third of a tank length ahead and a wing thickness above the CoL. Having the 2 engines out on the front wings was the least bad option, as anywhere else would have put their thrust off center. I was actually rather impressed with how it did, it was (barely) controllable until I was up to about 20km. I was expecting it to flip end over end the moment it left the runway.

[LordSlowpoke]

I suppose it's design share time for me again.

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A probe that weights about 4 tons (eyeballing it, might have to bring in mechjeb later) fully powered by RCS, with two solar panels on the wings - not seen here - and enough battery power to last these pesky nights at Eve, Duna, or whatever you need. I still haven't found out if the avionics package does anything, so it's there for the looks.

There is one problem, however.

It's very, very easily steered, since all and every single one of its wings are control surfaces. That however means that it's just like the orbiting maneuvers. Push button, get the hell off course. Might need to stick an ASAS there somewhere, but wouldn't that defeat the point?

On a side note, I do have a modded part in there. Tiny, tiny structural fuselage which makes this whole thing work. It's scaled appropriately as far as I know.

And now for a question, how do I take this and stick it to my moonbase rocket? Rebuild from scratch?

[Guardian G.I.]

And now for a question, how do I take this and stick it to my moonbase rocket? Rebuild from scratch?

Find the .craft file of your probe (...\Kerbal Space Program\saves\{savegame name}\Ships\SPH) and copy it from the SPH folder to the VAB folder. That should probably work.

[ank]

The avionics package is like an ASAS for airplanes.

[Funk]

im going to try a stock solar rocket.
if i can get KSP not to crash all the time.

[Sordid]

And now for a question, how do I take this and stick it to my moonbase rocket? Rebuild from scratch?

-> http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/29950-0-18-Payloader-1-1-A-quick-easy-payload-launcher-utility%21-WIN-LIN-MAC-%21UPDATED%21

[forsaken1111]

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230 tons of rocket required to put a 15.8 ton station hub into orbit.

But its there! Huzzah!

Next step... a nuclear reactor module.

[Funk]

as it turns out a turbojet drag car is not safe but i have found out that you can rocket jump a kerbal a good 8.5km with one.

[nogoodnames]

At long last I have managed to get my two drones and their planetary transfer vehicle into orbit!

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So many failures and redesigns with the launch vehicle. Mostly my fault because I was too stubborn to accept the drones having opposing orientations. I should have relized that it's almost impossible to keep a rocket going straight when there are two sets of wings that are trying to push it over. I guess I'll just have to accept one of the drones having inverted controls.
It didn't help that my laptop could only handle the thing at 2 fps.

But it's in orbit now! Yay! Now for the relatively easy challenge of interplanetary travel.

[Funk]

Is this a enough scoops?

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