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[MagmaMcFry]

Or, as puke said, just right-click and press "Run test".

[Mephansteras]

You can add a new stage while in flight. If you add it to the bottom you can stage through it and stage activate your already stage activated engines.

Oh, that's a good trick! I figured that wouldn't work since the part was already activated.

[BigD145]

Run test works on the more advanced later tech engines but not the first couple.

[puke]

Anybody have pointers for landing on vacuum planetoids with RemoteTech?  I'm having a super hard time with this, keep crashing into the Mun.

I'm trying to do it with maneuver nodes, but maybe I should just use a long-duration burn to retrograde from the flight computer?  I'm not using any other control enhancing mods like mechajeb or similar - just remotetech2, TAC life support, and scansat.

I know, on the Mun I should just be able to do it by hand since signal delay is so low - but I'm trying to use this as a proving ground for future missions to more exotic locales.  Also, trying to learn how to preprogram things so that I dont have to build local comms infrastructure to cover the far side of planetoids before launching a serious landing operation.

The only tutorials or video's I've found are featuring landings on bodies with an atmosphere using parachutes, or are hand-controlled over low latency links.

[Gentlefish]

...Is the mun tidal-locked?

[Graknorke]

...Is the mun tidal-locked?

Yup

[Gentlefish]

Sweet. Means I can plant some pseudo-retro-reflectors.

[miauw62]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

you said i couldnt do it
but i did it
i brought this thing to a suborbital trajectory
and i even did a powered landing.


E:
BTW, I remember there being a mod that allowed you to transfer resources between parts of your ship easily, but I forgot the name.

[puke]

Do nosecones have a function now? 

How many contracts did you complete with that flight?

[Gentlefish]

Uh. Miauw, what exactly did you make there?

[miauw62]

Do nosecones have a function now? 

How many contracts did you complete with that flight?

4 Contracts.
Poodle/radial while landed, mainsail in flight, KR in sub-orbit.

And I'm using FAR, so nosecones have a function.

[Aseaheru]

Nosecones have slight function in the basegame aswell, reduces drag...

[puke]

I respect a man that slaps a "ground test" part on a rocket, and then goes on to fly the thing anyway.

I take it then that nosecones need mods to be useful, and are still worthless in stock? 

Does it mater yet if you stack parts in a row?  Some of the drag effects I get (particularly on re-entry but sometimes when launching at high speed in upper atmosphere) suggest that drag for parallel parts is being modeled, but its hard to tell.  might just be because of a higher total drag*mass on that end of the rocket?

[Gentlefish]

Hm. Wonder if there's a way to mod in parts to make, say, a fighter jet such that the munitions would damage other plane parts. I mean, the physics is basically there already.

[Girlinhat]

I respect a man that slaps a "ground test" part on a rocket, and then goes on to fly the thing anyway.

I take it then that nosecones need mods to be useful, and are still worthless in stock? 

Does it mater yet if you stack parts in a row?  Some of the drag effects I get (particularly on re-entry but sometimes when launching at high speed in upper atmosphere) suggest that drag for parallel parts is being modeled, but its hard to tell.  might just be because of a higher total drag*mass on that end of the rocket?

I built a small jet for traveling around on one tank of gas and grabbing science.  I made it with the MK 1 cockpit and it worked fine (the pointed one).  I took the same jet, and replaced the cockpit with a probe core (the blunt octagonal one) and it was extremely unstable.  Even with COM/COL factored, and the VERY strong SAS I was using for this size of vessel, the blunted nose seemed to make the aerodynamics unusable.