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[puke]

Congratulations!  the first orbit is a great feeling.  Soon you be landing on other worlds.

[SOLDIER First]

NEW UPDATE:
I realized that, due to exploding violently from being ejected, the Science JR. is worthless anyway, so I attached three radial parachutes on top.
Detachment from the main pod results in a 4 m./s fall rate, and impact with the ground by the decoupler allows a cushion, protecting the Science Jr.
I think I might need to make sure that I detach that particular stage while pointing prograde (straight down, as under test conditions) for this to work, but eh.

[MarcAFK]

My asteroid weighs 900 tons and is sitting on the VAB, getting that kind of payload up isn't so hard with the new parts, but moving it down "safely" might be tricky, I'm going to need to make a crane using infernal robotics. Considering I needed 3 days to make a 6 ton tow truck, I'm going to probably need at least a week to make something, maybe a 2000 ton crane that's taller than the VAB?
Something that's been bothering me lately, what's the best part to use as ballast? I know engines and pods are heavy, but I can't find anything compact that's heavy enough to use as counterweights.

[LoSboccacc]

The new booster are extremely powerful.

Had to add a fuel tank to slow rocket down. (Yeah could have used less booster but no)

[WillowLuman]

Holy shit, I had not noticed these new OMGWTF huge engines. I made the stupidest, heaviest, most un-aerodynamic piece of crap ever and slapped 4 of the quad engines on it. With a sharp gravity turn, I'm orbiting in a single stage.

EDIT: And there's a new, even bigger Solid Rocket Booster! I had no choice:

Spoiler: image (click to show/hide)

[BigD145]

Lifting almost 500 tons to orbit is easier than ever.

[WillowLuman]

The end of the trip is even better!

Spoiler: ...And returning (click to show/hide)

[GreatWyrmGold]

You can use debug to do it.

But that's cheating!


Hugo, is that Jeb?

[BigD145]

Do you want to gift KSP to someone that doesn't care about modding? It's currently 40% off on Steam.

[WillowLuman]

Hugo, is that Jeb?

Could it be anyone else?

[Fikes]

Do you want to gift KSP to someone that doesn't care about modding? It's currently 40% off on Steam.

doesn't care about modding? I had no trouble adding mods to my Steam KSP.

[BigD145]

Do you want to gift KSP to someone that doesn't care about modding? It's currently 40% off on Steam.

doesn't care about modding? I had no trouble adding mods to my Steam KSP.

For anyone that has trouble with Steam auto updating games (even after setting it to not update ever) that are heavily mod version specific, KSP is terrible on Steam.

[puke]

Something that's been bothering me lately, what's the best part to use as ballast? I know engines and pods are heavy, but I can't find anything compact that's heavy enough to use as counterweights.

upward pointing retro-rockets?

[Sean Mirrsen]

Do you want to gift KSP to someone that doesn't care about modding? It's currently 40% off on Steam.

doesn't care about modding? I had no trouble adding mods to my Steam KSP.

For anyone that has trouble with Steam auto updating games (even after setting it to not update ever) that are heavily mod version specific, KSP is terrible on Steam.

If you're having trouble with KSP on Steam, copy it out of the Steam folder. The game uses no DRM.

Plus I've yet to see a major mod that isn't updated to a new KSP version within the day of the update.

[BigD145]

Star Ruler on my account is fudged. Mods there are very version dependent and some update for one version months after a new game version releases. I very deliberately did not transfer my ksp to steam. I don't need steam running in the background and I don't need autoupdates.