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[Sirus]

All I wanted to do is get a satellite in orbit. I built the core and associated rocket from scratch and launched it. It started pretty well and steady, but once the solid boosters detached and I began my gravity turn the whole thing began wobbling despite Because of an ASAS and winglets.

*Fixed

Wait, since when do those things cause wobbliness? I remember that they also seemed to help get my ships in orbit.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Depends on the setup. If your ship is a little too bendy (or just unlucky), ASAS will wobble it all over the place. It'll try to hold the course, but...

[Karlito]

Sooo awesome.

This guy's channel is pretty cool.

[ank]

Wait, since when do those things cause wobbliness? I remember that they also seemed to help get my ships in orbit.

Generally winglets/control surfaces and ASAS are not good friends.
Here is the internal monologue I imagine the ASAS module must be thinking:

*Heading one arc second too high*
"WING TO FULL DOWN!!!!"
*heading now off by 5 arc seconds too low*
"WING TO FULL UP!!!!!!!"

This repeats forever, 10 times a second.

If you are making a balanced rocket there will be no need for winglets anyways, the gimbals are more than enough to steer.

[LoSboccacc]

it gets more marked the more the ship bend

the asas takes the ship angle to correct from the nose, and if the ships bends because of its weight then the asas will overcorrect

[Skyrunner]

Time to take 0.19.1 for a spin.

[LoSboccacc]

add this on top http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/40116-0-19-Chatterer-v-0-3-1

random babbling from kerbalnauts 

[Sirus]

add this on top http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/40116-0-19-Chatterer-v-0-3-1

random babbling from kerbalnauts 

Please say that they start screaming or panicking when things go horribly wrong

[Mephansteras]

add this on top http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/40116-0-19-Chatterer-v-0-3-1

random babbling from kerbalnauts 

Please say that they start screaming or panicking when things go horribly wrong

"In space, no one can hear you scream."

Ground Control: "Yes we can! It was HORRIBLE."

[Aseaheru]

add this on top http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/showthread.php/40116-0-19-Chatterer-v-0-3-1

random babbling from kerbalnauts 

Please say that they start screaming or panicking when things go horribly wrong

"In space, no one can hear you scream."

Ground Control: "Yes we can! It was HORRIBLE."

I want this as a quote but I dont have space...

[Fikes]

To quote that SpaceX Falcon Heavy

3) CENTER CORE
For payloads heavier than 100,000 pounds, Falcon Heavy uses a cross-feed system to run fuel from the side cores to the center core, leaving the center core almost fully fueled after the side boosters separate. What’s left is the equivalent of a complete Falcon 9 rocket already high in space.

This is the most important concept for putting heavier payloads into orbit. Design a rocket that works well and then feed it from side cores. When the side cores burn out you have a good rocket already high up in space.

[TwilightWalker]

To quote that SpaceX Falcon Heavy

3) CENTER CORE
For payloads heavier than 100,000 pounds, Falcon Heavy uses a cross-feed system to run fuel from the side cores to the center core, leaving the center core almost fully fueled after the side boosters separate. What’s left is the equivalent of a complete Falcon 9 rocket already high in space.

This is the most important concept for putting heavier payloads into orbit. Design a rocket that works well and then feed it from side cores. When the side cores burn out you have a good rocket already high up in space.

The Asparagus Stalk?

[Twi]

Guess what? Today, I'm not going to give you a reentry montage!

Instead, I'm going to give you the best use of rovers: BULLDOZERS! A fun way to get rid of that nasty, lag-causing debris around Kerbal Space Center.

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Now with more glitches!

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And now with excessive hugenormous-ness! That first pic is a shot of it pushing a slightly earlier iteration of itself, by the way. The front end of the bucket-dozer-plow-thing sadly fell off after that. Suffice to say, the Pyth got too large for its own good, all the way from its humble beginnings as a simple target to ram projectiles into at high speeds. Hell, it lags this beefy gaming laptop when it loads in!

Note: The structural fuselages are there because those structure plates tend to get all tangled up in each other. So if I didn't have those and I tried to push a big gray metal box, there's a decent chance it would get stuck to the vehicle. Not good!

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A more reasonable (and manned) pushy-thing, the Matador.

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It still has the capacity to go horribly wrong, luckily.

[Sean Mirrsen]

To quote that SpaceX Falcon Heavy

3) CENTER CORE
For payloads heavier than 100,000 pounds, Falcon Heavy uses a cross-feed system to run fuel from the side cores to the center core, leaving the center core almost fully fueled after the side boosters separate. What’s left is the equivalent of a complete Falcon 9 rocket already high in space.

This is the most important concept for putting heavier payloads into orbit. Design a rocket that works well and then feed it from side cores. When the side cores burn out you have a good rocket already high up in space.

Or, in KSP fan-terms, Asparagus Staging. Or in layman's terms, rocket-propelled drop tanks.

[Twi]

rocket-propelled drop tanks.

Do you have any idea how awesome that sounds?!?

That sounds MUCH better than asparagus!