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[Putnam]

so it's a vomit comet ride

[Lightningfalcon]

On my very first flight in the new version, in career mode, I blew up my rocket, very nearly reached space, and broke a multitude of speed records. Will upload pic as soon as my internet gets unfucked.

[RedKing]

I'm having trouble figuring out how to pull off the tourist missions with only MkI pods. I tried setting up a rig with boosters on either side and the tourist pods on top of them. The idea was that when we started coming back down, I'd pop the chutes on their pods and eject them off to either side, and let them tumble the rest of the way down while I piloted the main pod back. But I can't seem to pull off the staging right. Not to mention even getting to 70K alt.

[Gabeux]

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.

Probably should be an achievement. I'd just be thinking "how is it going to blow up? who's gonna collect Jebs remains to put him back in the secret cloning machines?"

Is it harder to make SSTOs with the new model? Because my problem with SSTOs was the very weird flight model they had, and I didn't use that realistic mod (Farnham?).
I was pretty sure cargo SSTOs could be made, yet I simply could not achieve orbit with cargo using a simplistic design. I'd have to go overboard in order to make it, so I gave up on the idea.
But maybe I'll go back and try that again with the update. I'm not that great on KSP though, I just visited Minmus/Mun after I learned about Delta-V stuff since eyeballing things with no knowledge at all started making me mad.

[LoSboccacc]

I present you:

the cheesy science roller

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20 science easy easy

[PTTG??]

Jeb and Val: Space tour guides.

[RedKing]

I present you:

the cheesy science roller

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20 science easy easy

Slap some solar panels on that thing and see if you can roll all the way to a survey site.

[LoSboccacc]

if I had them

nah, this is how I survey:

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[Lightningfalcon]

My own beginning spaceplane had the worst problems with flipping.  Eventually I just put the COL waaaay in the back.  Handles horribly, but at least it can get to places.

[Shadowlord]

The Complex Ordinance Launcher? The thing that launches mines?

[Putnam]

center of lift

[Lightningfalcon]

The Complex Ordinance Launcher? The thing that launches mines?

Not a really good idea to have a mine launcher in the front of your aircraft, I imagine.
That does give me an idea though for storing a laser or some kind of missile in an SSTO cargo bay.  Once you get to space the rang of a laser would increase tremendously, so you wouldn't even need to be on a perfect intercept.  Unless you are aiming it manually, anyways.
I also realized a legitimate use for SSTO's outside of Kerbin.  If you can set up a mining base on Laythe, along with a science lab, you would be able to both ferry it to orbit to support other missions, or fly around to just get science.  Not sure how efficient it would be compared to other moons without an atmosphere, but it will be interesting to try.

[BFEL]

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This might be a bit impractical.

That's nothing, with FAR and Interstellar in previous versions I've hit 800m/s at sea level without breaking apart.

[Aseaheru]

Meanwhile, Im not even bothering with spaceplanes and am going straight to space carriers. Big ones. Im talking 12 NERVAs plus one of those massive NASA engines. its about 20m wide.

[Kanil]

Planes in general seem extremely useless in 1.0. They explode at low altitude, and at high altitude they're so low power that you might as well have not bothered.

Also, it seems they removed one of the nose cones... Actually, I think I found it. Just looks a lot different now.