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[LoSboccacc]

sas is nice as it can keep your lander straight even without burning the oh so precious rcs fuel

[sneakey pete]

There are 2 differing levels of SAS. what is provided by the pods and the smaller SAS just provides force, whereas you need ASAS to actually lock the rocket's heading. It will then use the SAS force to control the ship (if possible) and RCS (if enabled). Basically, you only need one ASAS on a ship, its best to put it as high up as practical, and for big rockets more SAS modules will help with the SAS control.

[ank]

Has anybody found out how to select the order in which you use RCS fuel?
On my ships the game uses the fuel in the lander first, then uses the fuel lower on the rocket, leaving the lander without any rcs fuel.

[Rose]

You can right click on fuel tanks to disable fuel from them

[ank]

You can right click on fuel tanks to disable fuel from them

uhm... nope...
you can't right click RCS fuel tanks.(well you can, but it doesn't do anything)

[LoSboccacc]

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=22918.0

trainage!

[scriver]

So... eh... That landing thing? What's that?

[buckets]

So has anyone actualy managed to get a plane into orbit? I've never once seen it done in a LP, and I've never managed to pull it off myself. Apparantly too much thrust is a bad thing.

[LoSboccacc]

So has anyone actualy managed to get a plane into orbit? I've never once seen it done in a LP, and I've never managed to pull it off myself. Apparantly too much thrust is a bad thing.

changing topic...

Spoiler: single stage to orbit plane (click to show/hide)

I used just mechjeb and engineering to test it

Spoiler: halfway in the plane to the moon and back challenge (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: staged configuration (click to show/hide)

the wing on the tanks are angled so the tanks are ejected away from the craft; the tank have also some atmo engines just because.

Spoiler: separation confirmed (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: second time on minmus, this time engines didn't fell off on landing (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: got back, lining up with runway (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: nice landing, challenge completed! (click to show/hide)

Now, who'll be the first one to land on the moon and come back with a plane? I'd suggest using a massive plane, carrying a rocket (for interplanetary stuff), itself carryin a smaller plane/glider (for landing).

It is done 

[ank]

Just to be clear, Nuclear-thermal engines on spacecraft doesn't refer to a fission reaction,
but rather some radioactive matter decaying in a water tank, running a turbine, running an ion engine.
It's what we use on deep space probes, that gets too far from the sun to run on solar panels, like the voyager missions.
!! Science !!

[miauw62]

I tought it was just throwing nukes behind you to propel yourself.

[Putnam]

That's nuclear pulse.

[miauw62]

Oh.

[LoSboccacc]

It's what we use on deep space probes

we use thermocouples, which are totally more awesome than water reactors

[Rose]

How they work: make one side hotter than the other, get electricity.