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Offline Bob-san

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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
Reply #300 on: November 29, 2011, 10:11:02 pm
Got there and back a few more times. My Big Munar Lifter Mk VIIC is pretty efficient.




After all, just look at how much fuel I have left while on the surface!

(On a side-note, Kerbin is eclipsing Kol and the engine apparently doesn't render that well.)
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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
Reply #301 on: November 29, 2011, 10:22:32 pm
Yeah, I think I actually could have landed with my second-to-last stage too: I had plenty of fuel (much more than I'd planned on), but no wings.

Just curious, what does your full rocket look like? I've found I've reached the size limit that my computer can handle for rockets. The rocket from the previous post gives me about 1 FPS all the way through the first stage. I blame the struts, if I remove them my FPS increases massively, but the rocket naturally flings itself to pieces.

Hoping the .13 update makes superbig rockets more feasible for me.
 

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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
Reply #302 on: November 29, 2011, 10:38:41 pm
My overall rocket is pretty damn big...



I've found that lugging around boosters & radial decouplers is pretty pointless in 99% of cases. The top stage of boosters is actually carried full (for realism's sake) and engages in the upper atmosphere, providing me with a boost. I just heavily burn until about 2800 m/s and then go more controlled for more precise apokee. I also don't bother with achieving orbit: I use direct ascension. In the last set of screenshots, I made it off the Mun and back to Kerbin except I splatted in the water. It was kind of funny: I reached about 1500 m/s above the Mun and changed my vector sufficiently to do a direct descent.
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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
Reply #303 on: November 29, 2011, 10:41:45 pm
I pissed my pants, that's big boom boom if something goes wrong :P
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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
Reply #304 on: November 30, 2011, 09:43:39 am
Dammit, Jeb!  There was one thing you needed to remember to bring with you on this launch!  One thing, and you couldn't ****ing do it, could you?!  You are a disgrace, even among your incompetent cohorts!

And for those of you who are poor judges of tone, I was laughing my ass off, as I uploaded that screenshot.
 

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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
Reply #305 on: November 30, 2011, 10:32:05 am
Quote from: Rodo on November 29, 2011, 10:41:45 pm
I pissed my pants, that's big boom boom if something goes wrong :P
Ever since I adjusted the outer stacks, it's been pretty damn stable. The biggest problem is it's hard to hit your vectors during initial ascent. I landed again with a little bit more fuel in the tanks so there is room for improvement.
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Offline Commander Zane

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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
Reply #306 on: November 30, 2011, 04:15:03 pm

Perfectly normal-looking rocket.


Oh god wut.


Bon voyage!
 

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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
Reply #307 on: November 30, 2011, 04:52:48 pm
Awesome!

 

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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
Reply #308 on: December 01, 2011, 11:06:42 am
Mun Launch XIII arrived on the moon today.  Alas, I didn't quite kill all of my horizontal momentum, so the engine got sheared off.  Despite that, the command module did not explode, so I'm calling it a successful landing, albeit without a return.  Bob & Jeb disagree, though Bill is oddly cool with living out his remaining days on the moon.

Also, an earlier launch made a wrong turn at Albuquerque.  Jeb doesn't get to navigate anymore.
 

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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
Reply #309 on: December 01, 2011, 02:56:53 pm
I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
Reply #310 on: December 01, 2011, 06:07:42 pm
Quote
Also, an earlier launch made a wrong turn at Albuquerque.  Jeb doesn't get to navigate anymore.

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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
Reply #311 on: December 06, 2011, 06:57:31 am
Quote from: Bob-san on November 14, 2011, 10:28:36 am
Quote from: Nuke on November 14, 2011, 09:03:59 am
you could probibly stand that up with the rcs thrusters.
Nope--I couldn't. It's a shame really. Here's another picture from a more recent mission.


Saw this pic on facebook yesterday.
 

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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
Reply #312 on: December 06, 2011, 08:47:08 am
My recent experimentation regarding shuttle type launch vehicle has not been entirely successful.

There are three things that last forever: Abort, Retry, Fail - and the greatest of these is Fail.
 

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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
Reply #313 on: December 06, 2011, 09:16:31 am
One would have thought that thrust vectoring would fix that... That tank is non C7 though right? It might help to adjust the weight, that's what i'd do, or heavy RCS and a lot-o-fuel.
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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
Reply #314 on: December 06, 2011, 09:19:50 am
It takes being off the ground for gimbaling to be of any use.
 

Offline Herra Tohtori

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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
Reply #315 on: December 06, 2011, 01:11:45 pm
Well the problem is really more related to fuel arrangement than thrust balance.

What I want to do is use the Orbiter's three engines as the main engines. However there is no way to direct fuel from the main fuel tank to the orbiter's engines. Also when I put engines on the fuel tank, the result is that the orbiter runs out of fuel first, and then the fuel tank's engines cause the entire vehicle to pitch up. So, what I need is a way to connect the main fuel tank to the shuttle engines via fuel ducts.

It also needs retractable landing gear.

I also need to make the orbiter itself more airworthy, it's not exactly a viable space-plane, much less viable glider.
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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
Reply #316 on: December 06, 2011, 01:15:37 pm
Why does it start to sound more and more like Reliant Robin Space Shuttle...
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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
Reply #317 on: December 06, 2011, 01:32:03 pm
Quote from: Wanderer on December 06, 2011, 01:15:37 pm
Why does it start to sound more and more like Reliant Robin Space Shuttle...

Because you're from Manchester and you'll be able to do it for ten and six...

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Offline Herra Tohtori

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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
Reply #318 on: December 06, 2011, 10:17:58 pm
It's working better now!

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Offline Commander Zane

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Re: Kerbal Space Program or "Rocket science is harder than it looks"
Reply #319 on: December 06, 2011, 10:22:19 pm
What Arcane arts did you study to get a camera shot like that?
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