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[Simmura McCrea]

I just hope they keep in a sandbox mode for pissing about. Because as much fun as making it to 100km out is, making ludicrous rockets that blow up all the time is still fun.

[Saint]

I don't bother with orbit because it's an annoying concept to me still due to lack of instruments.
I'd rather spend time doing something amazingly stupid or difficult.
Upside down rocket reaching 300,000 m or greater

[Jay]

0.9 Experimental 3
http://www.mediafire.com/?t9pabg7dx92vamd
Changelog: This, I guess...  There isn't one that's properly official; this is the list of bugs from x2

* Struts could cause the game to crash if they didn't find their targets
* Alt+copying parts inside grouped icons would eventually lead to a crash
* Heavily modified staging sequences would sometimes fire out of order

[onyhow]

What's the escape velocity of the Kerbal planet? Because it's feeling like my rocket is heading there...current heading is 1.6km/s at 45 degrees up...1200km altitude and counting...is gaining around 1km altitude / sec...and only just a very little fuel left...might not be enough for reentry burn...

[monk12]

What's the escape velocity of the Kerbal planet? Because it's feeling like my rocket is heading there...current heading is 1.6km/s at 45 degrees up...1200km altitude and counting...is gaining around 1km altitude / sec...and only just a very little fuel left...might not be enough for reentry burn...

Escape velocity depends on your height- after consulting this chart, at 1200 km, orbital velocity is 1400.40 m/s, and escape velocity is 1980.46 m/s. This chart does assume horizontal/vertical velocities, however- you almost certainly aren't at escape velocity, but you may be on a hell of an elliptical orbit. If you wait for your altitude to top out, you'll know your exact horizontal speed and be able to figure out whether you've made orbit.

Although if escape is what you're after, you can try to slingshot around the planet on your way back down.

[Sordid]

Edit: Nevermind.

[Urist Mcinternetuser]

Has anybody else gotten stuck slingshotting past the planet? My ship won't stop it keeps gaining altitude, and then (in orbit) lowering, just to go past the planet and repeat the proccess, I've let it run for the past two ours (while doing other stuff), but I finally just abandoned it.

[Mephansteras]

Has anybody else gotten stuck slingshotting past the planet? My ship won't stop it keeps gaining altitude, and then (in orbit) lowering, just to go past the planet and repeat the proccess, I've let it run for the past two ours (while doing other stuff), but I finally just abandoned it.

Sounds like a fairly stable elliptical orbit to me.

[Urist Mcinternetuser]

I ran out of fuel getting into it, and so they were stuck in it it forever.

[Urist Mcinternetuser]

@Greatorder, what altitude are you trying to get into orbit?

[Saint]

Am I the only one that actually uses a slingshot orbit to launch into space instead of just going straight up with rockets?

[BigD145]

Am I the only one that actually uses a slingshot orbit to launch into space instead of just going straight up with rockets?

What are you, a slanty-eyed elf?

[Stargrasper]

Because Jay didn't stop in to tell us yet...

KSP 0.9X4 is available.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/0qpyzjwel0v7p39/KSP_win_0_9_x4.zip

New on 0.9X4:
* Added an input mapping for the Precision Controls Toggle
* Tweaked the settings UI graphics a bit
* Changed attachment mode to the previous one, since the new one was causing stability problems in flight

Bug Fixes on X4:
* Fixed a problem with the symmetry that could cause the game to crash sometimes

[MasterFancyPants]

Is it possible to escape the planet? I got to 3000km and started falling again. I guess it does make since though, since your ship and Curth are the only two things that have mass in the Kerbalverse. 

[monk12]

Escape velocity is very much possible- the topic was covered exhaustively a few pages back.