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[Lightningfalcon]

Did you have SAS turned on or off?

[andrea]

wow that deadly reentry is fucking hard

I tried reentering with a heat shield but screw that my ship flips over and starts facing the wrong way, destroying all of the science that I got (but leaving Valentina intact)

try deploying parachute earlier.

[Shadowlord]

What deadly re-entry? Seems rather un-deadly to me so far.

[LoSboccacc]

I'm playing hard (I think, I'm swimming in money and just unlocked tier 1 technologies) and so far even hard it seems to be balanced so that:

a capsule can reentry low kerbin orbit as long as it's not a vertical drop
capusule + heatshield can reentry mun/minmus orbit as long as you don't drop to low

probably things become more deadly if you reentry a heavy object that atmosphere can't slow down or from interplanetary transfer, but haven reached that level yet.

[Aseaheru]

SAS seems borked, atleast to me. Meaning that it likes to start spinning and oscillating the craft.

[Shadowlord]

Seems to be working fine for me. I had a rocket that was spinning, but that was because I hadn't invented the LV-T45 yet, and the LV-T30 just sent it cartwheeling across the sky. (The only SAS or RCS I have is from the command pod still)

[Greiger]

I designed an SSTO (that came very close but failed to achieve true orbit) but forgot deadly reentry is now standard.  And the ssto had no heatshields.  I somehow managed to slow the plane down enough with simple aerobraking maneuvers during the high part of reentry that it didn't explode, didn't even have real airbrakes.  The front half of the plane WAS glowing a pretty scary red though, enough to make out the front of the plane clearly even though it was night. It's kinda cool that even without the usual reentry fireball from high speed there's still an indication that stuff is starting to get hot.

But successful reentry and landing without a heatshield, that should be an achievement or something right? I never screwed around with deadly reentry much.

[LoSboccacc]

Spoiler: when you got tourists but no inline command pods (click to show/hide)

[RedKing]

Spoiler: when you got tourists but no inline command pods (click to show/hide)

"Jeb's Space Tours! The HOTTEST thing around!"

[BigD145]

http://www.gog.com/news/release_kerbal_space_program

[LoSboccacc]

trolololo space program: you unlock jet engine before jet fuel tanks

also, jet engines say 'drain evenly stage by stage'

anyone knows what that means?


edit: seriously the new research tree is a mess. you can unlock 2.5 mt tanks without unlocking 1.5 to 2.5 adapters, which gets messy fast with the new aereodynamic.

in the same way, you unlock 2.5mt engines without adapters, so making them flush with the rocket is impossible.

I understand having more nodes, but this is so annoying, it's ugly ass rocket space program until you get much far in the tech tree

[Leonon]

All tanks in a stage drain at once instead of top to bottom. This makes the center of mass move less during flight than it used to.

[Putnam]

You could always just drain the oxidizer from the LFO fuel takes.

[RedKing]

How do you satisfy the conditions for a tourist mission? It just says "suborbital flight" and I don't see any particular locations in the tracking center. Does that mean I just need to reach space and then bring them down again (in one piece) to achieve?

[Aseaheru]

Yep.