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[Rose]

So I made my first trip to minimus. I ran out of fuel on the way back, so I get out and push, since I have no antennae.

Then this happens:



I feel such joy.

[LordSlowpoke]

you know, doing a hohmann transfer by hand while messing about with interplanetary stuff makes me think one thing in particular

we're going to need a bigger warp

i've got a year and half of waiting left until i can apply 12 m/s to crash into kerbin gloriously. the science best be worth it

[Lightningfalcon]

you know, doing a hohmann transfer by hand while messing about with interplanetary stuff makes me think one thing in particular

we're going to need a bigger warp

i've got a year and half of waiting left until i can apply 12 m/s to crash into kerbin gloriously. the science best be worth it

Along with that, they need to fix the bug that let's you go straight through a planet on the highest warp.

[BigD145]

you know, doing a hohmann transfer by hand while messing about with interplanetary stuff makes me think one thing in particular

we're going to need a bigger warp

i've got a year and half of waiting left until i can apply 12 m/s to crash into kerbin gloriously. the science best be worth it

You can go back to kerbin central and max your warp. 1.5 years goes by at a reasonable pace.

[LoSboccacc]

or do another mission in the meanwhile.

[BigD145]

Beep beep. Space trucker, coming through.

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It's about five tons too heavy. I redesigned the Zenith series of boosters to carry this station hub. It gets the 15 ton hub and 4 orange tanks into 100km orbit around Kerbin. About 10 minutes of burn gets it to 800km orbit. It can make an intersect with most planets using a 23 minute or less burn. I think it can at least get the hub to another planet, but the hub will probably need another vessel to tug it into place. The four tank has three LV-909 engines which I might test with Poodle's instead.

Here's your delivery. Sign here.

[kaian-a-coel]

Today I learned that water landings are not good for science.
I lost a material bay and 75 science points

[My Name is Immaterial]

This is why you always transmit. ALWAYS.

[Sean Mirrsen]

I flew a little SSTS (single-stage to sub-orbit) craft with FAR and Deadly Reentry installed today.

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Spaceplanes in general are quite Fun with FAR. Spaceflight in general is Fun with Deadly Reentry.

Combining both is Fun indeed.
Though I avoided most of the trouble since I was suborbital, and without much altitude (only some 90Km or so), the reentry still burned off one of my emergency parachutes.

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Jeb made it though.

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Kinda landed into a hill and lost most of the plane's rear, but hey! Any landing you can walk away from...

[Sensei]

Today I learned that water landings are not good for science.
I lost a material bay and 75 science points

I'm actually usually ok with that- at the very least, if I only have one materials bay a regular parachute is enough. Heck, two radial parachutes seems to be enough for three bays- they might break off, but they won't get destroyed so they're still recoverable.

[LordSlowpoke]

welp

nothing is better than flying to low duna orbit and back with a ridiculously oversized probe, getting a flyby of ike on the way and 8 material bays/8 goo canisters worth of grade-a science just to land on a seemingly flat coastline which made your ship, otherwise safely equipped with a dozen radial parachutes and four regular ones, flip over and smash itself to pieces in a masterpiece which, i assume, was commented with a solitary "fuck" at the command center

time to build it harder, link the struts better, learn how to do maneuvers faster and make the engines stronger for the work of a kerbal is never over

[Leonon]

it is kind of terrible how parachutes disappear as soon as you touch/splash down.

[ank]

welp

nothing is better than flying to low duna orbit and back with a ridiculously oversized probe, getting a flyby of ike on the way and 8 material bays/8 goo canisters worth of grade-a science just to land on a seemingly flat coastline which made your ship, otherwise safely equipped with a dozen radial parachutes and four regular ones, flip over and smash itself to pieces in a masterpiece which, i assume, was commented with a solitary "fuck" at the command center

time to build it harder, link the struts better, learn how to do maneuvers faster and make the engines stronger for the work of a kerbal is never over

My solution? aim for the poles! They don't have stupid water rotating on them.


Another more mathy solution is when you are inbound and know where you will land, but don't know if it will be over ocean:
A Kerbal day is 6 hours, so timewarp until your are a multiplication of 6 hours away(check the time by adding a maneuver node to the point of impact). Now you are looking at how Kerbin will be oriented every six hours from now.

[Guardian G.I.]

I'm trying to build a superheavy rocket that can launch at least one big orange fuel tank into space, but despite all my precautions, the upper stage keeps falling off the rocket on the launchpad. Is there anything I can do to fix it?

[LordSlowpoke]

you need more struts.

that or a liberal application of these fancy launchpad stability enhancers