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[Mini]

There's a second space centre, but you can't launch anything from it. There are things on the navball that point towards/away from it, if you want to find it.

[alway]

Seems I also found that Mun Arch. Got a nice picture for scale comparison:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Looks like it's about 175m tall.

Spoiler: location spoilers (click to show/hide)

You can also spot it from a really low orbit w/o too much trouble. It's nearly on the equator, so locating it from a low orbit around munar orbit shouldn't be too tricky.

[Aseaheru]

i just love how there are only two ends for a mission, abort and fail.

[alway]

Due to a misspelling in official paperwork, the military was rather disappointed upon seeing the results of PROJECT SPACE MARINES.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

In retrospect, rocket-powered drop-marinas did seem like an odd request, but project engineers didn't care; they got paid either way.

Several months later, a luxury boating company acquired the project, adding the slogan "park your boat, anytime, anywhere."

[Aseaheru]

really?


wow, you got time on your hands.

[alway]

It's actually my most successful VTOL to date.
If I added slightly more fuel, it could make it into orbit without too much trouble; thus giving my space drop-marinas a pretty much global range. The advanced SAS takes care of takeoff, which is completely vertical, followed by rotating at a 90 degree angle at apogee and attempting orbit. The air drag + parachutes will slow it to ~10 m/s and rotate it to completely horizontal, enough for the platform to survive; a small amount of fuel to drop that to near 0m/s is all that's required to land with the engines intact. Those 4 engines are actually all it uses; it starts with 4 T-16 tanks which are jettisoned, but aside from those and the ones in the image, it doesn't use any more fuel (though I will be adding another set of T-16 tanks or two for full orbital capability).

It's more an experiment in VTOLing large structures to orbit than anything else; and it most definitely shows it could be viable.

[Aseaheru]

if you can fold it up it'll be more usefull.

[Aseaheru]

i just made ANOTHER satalite. with the demo.

[Thendash]

KSP: The Movie:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiriapCvfAE

[alway]

KSP: The Movie:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiriapCvfAE

They need to get Michael Bay for it. Finally a film where the sheer quantity and pointlessness of explosions will have a purpose!

More Orbital Drop Marinas!

Spoiler: De-orbiting (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Parachutes deploy (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Parachutes open (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Safe landing (click to show/hide)

This improved version has both greatly increased size and enough fuel to land anywhere on the planet. In this case, it landed almost exactly on the opposite side of the planet.


Edit: Also, I updated my O-ship to make it even more nutty:

Spoiler: OH SHIP (click to show/hide)

It actually flies; though take-off procedures are a bit unusual.
Note that the center bits that extend into the tail aren't connected anywhere but up at the front of the craft; the innards and O-ring move separately. Though they are connected where the tail meets the O-ring in the back until post-launch, as they otherwise need lift to prevent snapping off.

Edit2: Extended the tail; now it flies in a really interesting way. Any by flies, I mean you manually tell the craft to nose up and nose down, cycling between the two about once every 2 seconds or so. Rather elegant in that it effectively swims through the air.

Spoiler: tail extended (click to show/hide)

Unfortunately, I cannot make it much longer due to the size of the construction hangar; it's about as long as it can get, and is also on the upper limits of width; though I think I can make it wider by moving the cockpit to the side.

[Aseaheru]

wont that be fun?

yes, do that. make a spaceplane that requires NO fuel while in  air.

[Sheb]

Done already. I'm pretty sure this one work like that.

[alway]

Yeah; those are old hat at this point.

We were doing that back in .13, back before the planes construction and wings; there are some images and such earlier in this thread.
Edit: here.

[Rose]

YES

HELL YES

HELL

FUCKING

YES!

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The SS Turbine has reached 15000m, people.

[Aqizzar]

Spoiler: A far too stingy attempt to reach the Mun. (click to show/hide)

First flight ended in a controlled abort when I forgot to turn the SAS on that landed the capsule around the north pole.

Spoiler: Second flight ended with a very controlled abort. (click to show/hide)

I'm obviously going to need a meatier rocket.

Also, it turns out that you can make debris explode by pushing it around by hand.