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[Akura]

Spoiler: I'm getting attached to those slanted C7 tanks (click to show/hide)

Fairly cheap, at $137k though much of the main ship can be recovered intact. Half of it is those SRBs. It can get to Minmus, land, and back to Kerbin with fuel to spare. The entire thing lands, but until I attached the heavy landing legs, I would always lose an engine upon landing, regardless of speed(5m/s or less when I tried - the Poodle engine is rated for 7m/s or less). If I can get a refueling station around Minmus, and maybe replace the Poodles with nuclear engines, this can easily go to another planet. Plus, it has some cargo space and probably can fit more, so I can adapt to different missions.

[miauw62]

The single booster stage on my first Mun/Minmus rocket can bring me literally to 20km

[TheDarkStar]

Spoiler: My Latest Project (click to show/hide)

It's a plane that carries a spaceplane. The main part was easy to build but the smaller plane took some tweaking to get it working.

Edit: How do I get an album embedded?

[Chiefwaffles]

Don't think the forums support album embedding. You'll have to give a link to the album if you want others to see it.

Also, is there any way to avoid the overheat indicator memory leak? I've got a ship I really want to land, but I can't avoid partial overheating of parts during re-entry, and therefore the game crashes whenever I try landing it.

[forsaken1111]

Don't think the forums support album embedding. You'll have to give a link to the album if you want others to see it.

Also, is there any way to avoid the overheat indicator memory leak? I've got a ship I really want to land, but I can't avoid partial overheating of parts during re-entry, and therefore the game crashes whenever I try landing it.

f10 turns the overlay off

[BigFatStupidHead]

Don't think the forums support album embedding. You'll have to give a link to the album if you want others to see it.

Also, is there any way to avoid the overheat indicator memory leak? I've got a ship I really want to land, but I can't avoid partial overheating of parts during re-entry, and therefore the game crashes whenever I try landing it.

f10 turns the overlay off

There are also some good mods to replace it. I'll dig around and find links for you.

Edit: Here we go.
This turns it off at the start of each flight automatically.
And this is a very nice alternative to the stock heat overlay.

[RedKing]

Okay, need some orbital mechanics help. I have a contract to put a satellite into a specific orbit, and I've almost got it but something is wrong on the angle.

Spoiler: Blue line is current orbit, green line is desired orbit. (click to show/hide)

The ascending/descending nodes line up and the apoapsis/periapsis are the right distances. The inclination is even the right amount (15.5 degrees), but it seems to be in the wrong direction?

But if I have MechJeb calculate a -15.5 inclination orbit, it's way out of line with this. Maybe I don't have the right terminology, and it's something other than inclination that needs to change??

[stabbymcstabstab]

So I managed to create a airbreathing jet capable of 1 minute of out of orbit flight, go over 1km/s at 90 degrees, survive rentry, fly with out wings, and finally land for all intents and purpose intact! Just don't activate the emergency RCS in atmos or poor Jeb ain't coming home.

[forsaken1111]

Okay, need some orbital mechanics help. I have a contract to put a satellite into a specific orbit, and I've almost got it but something is wrong on the angle.

Spoiler: Blue line is current orbit, green line is desired orbit. (click to show/hide)

The ascending/descending nodes line up and the apoapsis/periapsis are the right distances. The inclination is even the right amount (15.5 degrees), but it seems to be in the wrong direction?

But if I have MechJeb calculate a -15.5 inclination orbit, it's way out of line with this. Maybe I don't have the right terminology, and it's something other than inclination that needs to change??

Well... assuming you're orbiting the right way then this isn't too bad. You will want to burn normal/antinormal at the point where your orbit intersects the target orbit. Use a maneuver node to plot it out.

(Or give me your save and I'll show you what I mean. Its hard to explain)

[Karlito]

But if I have MechJeb calculate a -15.5 inclination orbit, it's way out of line with this. Maybe I don't have the right terminology, and it's something other than inclination that needs to change??

forsaken has the right advice to fix the issue. I believe the orbital characteristic you have to fix is called the argument of the periapsis. If you look down on Kerbin from the north pole, it should be more obvious where the difference is.

[RedKing]

Okay, need some orbital mechanics help. I have a contract to put a satellite into a specific orbit, and I've almost got it but something is wrong on the angle.

Spoiler: Blue line is current orbit, green line is desired orbit. (click to show/hide)

The ascending/descending nodes line up and the apoapsis/periapsis are the right distances. The inclination is even the right amount (15.5 degrees), but it seems to be in the wrong direction?

But if I have MechJeb calculate a -15.5 inclination orbit, it's way out of line with this. Maybe I don't have the right terminology, and it's something other than inclination that needs to change??

Well... assuming you're orbiting the right way then this isn't too bad. You will want to burn normal/antinormal at the point where your orbit intersects the target orbit. Use a maneuver node to plot it out.

(Or give me your save and I'll show you what I mean. Its hard to explain)

Aha! Worked like a champ (and had just enough delta-V left to do it, too). Had to tweak the periapsis a bit in a secondary burn, but no biggie.

I and the Probodobodyne Corporation thank you.

[forsaken1111]

Okay, need some orbital mechanics help. I have a contract to put a satellite into a specific orbit, and I've almost got it but something is wrong on the angle.

Spoiler: Blue line is current orbit, green line is desired orbit. (click to show/hide)

The ascending/descending nodes line up and the apoapsis/periapsis are the right distances. The inclination is even the right amount (15.5 degrees), but it seems to be in the wrong direction?

But if I have MechJeb calculate a -15.5 inclination orbit, it's way out of line with this. Maybe I don't have the right terminology, and it's something other than inclination that needs to change??

Well... assuming you're orbiting the right way then this isn't too bad. You will want to burn normal/antinormal at the point where your orbit intersects the target orbit. Use a maneuver node to plot it out.

(Or give me your save and I'll show you what I mean. Its hard to explain)

Aha! Worked like a champ (and had just enough delta-V left to do it, too). Had to tweak the periapsis a bit in a secondary burn, but no biggie.

I and the Probodobodyne Corporation thank you.

Cheers!

[BFEL]

Yeah, satellites are pretty much all like that. Get to orbit, burn till apoapse matches the closest part of the orbit, circularize there, burn at whichever purple (normal/antinormal?) marker rotates your orbit the right way, repeat till satisfied.

[RedKing]

Woohoo! Managed to land my first Munar probe. Unfortunately, I landed it on the side of a crater, and it tipped over and rolled about 100m. Still, good enough to count and good enough to perform and transmit all the tasty science I had packed onto it. Then I used what fuel I had left to accelerate it across the crater floor until it explosively disassembled.

No point in leaving trash lying around. (If it had landed properly, I would have left it as a monument for future Kerbonauts to admire...)

Now I have proper ladders and can try to replicate the same thing with a manned lander. Which is terrifying.

[BigD145]

Woohoo! Managed to land my first Munar probe. Unfortunately, I landed it on the side of a crater, and it tipped over and rolled about 100m. Still, good enough to count and good enough to perform and transmit all the tasty science I had packed onto it. Then I used what fuel I had left to accelerate it across the crater floor until it explosively disassembled.

No point in leaving trash lying around. (If it had landed properly, I would have left it as a monument for future Kerbonauts to admire...)

Now I have proper ladders and can try to replicate the same thing with a manned lander. Which is terrifying.

Don't forget to pick up your trash after that manned lander....