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[forsaken1111]

Actually it just came out.

today.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/content/346-KSP-1-0-3-now-Available!

[BigD145]

I was just starting to get comfy with my current mod lineup, too.

[Aqizzar]

Reading the changelog, sounds like I'll have to learn how to fly planes all over again.  Not too bad considering I never had a good handle on it before.

Hopefully KerbalEngineer gets updated soon, if it doesn't still work.  People can complain about flight-info mods all they want, the simple fact is NASA does not send craft into orbit with unit-less gauges and a stopwatch for instrumentation.

[miauw62]

I use KE because the info is useful and because big data readouts look cool

[LoSboccacc]

Reading the changelog, sounds like I'll have to learn how to fly planes all over again.  Not too bad considering I never had a good handle on it before.

Hopefully KerbalEngineer gets updated soon, if it doesn't still work.  People can complain about flight-info mods all they want, the simple fact is NASA does not send craft into orbit with unit-less gauges and a stopwatch for instrumentation.

seems a good moment as any to link this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6JGNiMMU0c

(but I agree completely I'm not flocking you)

[BigFatStupidHead]

1.0.4 already? What was so broken in 1.0.3?

Edit: Ah. "We’ve just released a small patch to resolve an issue some users were having with craft in saves created in KSP 1.0.3 that were not loading properly, and became uncontrollable. "

[Jopax]

So I'm at that point where I've exhausted most science sources around Kerbin. What's left is finally figuring out docking and figuring out how the hell would I expand to the other planets of the system.

Duna seems closest and easiest for that, there's even a contract for exploring it, but I'm still completely clueless as to how I'd go about doing that.

Oh well, time to do what I always do, build a needlessly large rocket and then fiddle with it until it kinda-sorta-maybe works as it should

[forsaken1111]

Getting to duna isn't much harder than getting to the mun. You just need a good departure window.

[BigD145]

I don't know if anyone has collected all the aerobraking numbers yet. That's the easiest way to plan for Duna or Eve. You need far less dV.

[forsaken1111]

The numbers will be very different now with the new atmospheric heating and such.

[MagmaMcFry]

The numbers will be very different now with the new atmospheric heating and such.

Also of course due to the new drag model. But even without aerobraking you can theoretically land on Gilly using less delta-v than you need to land on the Mün.

[Jopax]

Think my bigger problem is getting there first

Also I really should get me a mod that calculates dV already. Eyballing stuff can get tedius, mostly because it involves so much trial and error (oh your lifter got you nicely out of orbit, but this time you fell just short of making a mun transfer? too bad, do it all over again).

[BigD145]

Either 12km or 10km was a good Duna number.

[BFEL]

Think my bigger problem is getting there first

Also I really should get me a mod that calculates dV already. Eyballing stuff can get tedius, mostly because it involves so much trial and error (oh your lifter got you nicely out of orbit, but this time you fell just short of making a mun transfer? too bad, do it all over again).

All about them departure times. There's a protractor mod that calculates that for you in game, and also a internet app thing that will do it out of game somewhere.
But then if you don't have life support mods or anything like that you can just get into orbit and mess with maneuver nodes every few months to find a good one.

[MarcAFK]

Transfer angle calculator here: http://ksp.olex.biz/
Transfer window planner here: http://alexmoon.github.io/ksp/
I don't completely trust the dV numbers on any of those, but that's mostly because my transfers are always horribly inefficient, though sometimes I have managed with less than a calculator has suggested.
If you're unsure I recommend launching a simple test mission with far more dV than you should actually need long in advance of any more complicated and expensive missions.