Kerbal Space Program

I mean the experimental 1.4 builds rather than time acceleration. oh well landed again. third time in a row. getting good at this and have stage tool bar this time.

No i'm missing a decoupler :(, ditching in the sea.
Died :( had two empty fuel tanks and an engine on it.

coming off the moon at 270. then boost the orbit and it does to the left of kerbal. however the moons gravity pulls it back to the earth, then you just need a bit of braking and your in for a landing.
Why does chute only open at 500m height? or is it speed related?

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When deployed the parachute will act as a drag chute until reaching an altitude less than 500 meters above the ground. Once under 500 meters the parachute will fully deploy slowing down the Command Pod to less than 20m/s for a nice safe descent. Don't forget that parachute's efficiency depends of atmospheric density, so it won't work or even deploy in vacuum (including Munar landing).
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Cool I was at 26.3m/s with all that junk on. Added a coupler but taking a break now. Even been catching the moon in the first orbit now.
 
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Ah right, well I've not had anny issues parachuting with the main 0.14 release, I didn't try any of the pre-releases. I'm not sure why there is a 500m limit on 'chuting, it seems to be a height related thing. Must be down to air resistance or something in the thinner upper atmosphere.

EDIT: Turns out the legs can sometimes sink quite far into the moon's surface, which can be a problem for engines. Boo!

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No idea if there is an official one, just tried a generator and it gave 8DFF3F0A271C875A923D0B6B559C7E63 for the zipped file.
 
Hmm, that's what i'm getting... strange, it's complaining of a missing dll file (dnsapi) when i already have it (think it was required for DX or something).

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Don't suppose it being lower case makes a difference :p
 
In any case it's lower for my system as well, and at the same path. Hmm.

It seems to come up multiple times on my system, is it definitely the system32 one it's looking for?
 
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Well i found what the problem was, i had dnsapi set to native in winecfg, it needs to be bulletin. Works perfectly now (well, apart from the mouse thing) :D

Glad to see they fixed the bug where you couldn't change back after focusing on something else while in orbital view.
 
woot made it to mun and back, eventually. so what else have people been doing?

5th redisgn of my Mun Ranger design. First couple of revision was to add missing parachute and deciphers. Revision 5 was to replace last stage engine with the landing one.

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also in regards the landing legs, the new landing engine is very small, making the legs more than long enough.
 
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Pretty much copied from a tutorial design, at first I was more interested in learning to fly than the fine art of rocket design.

I've only tried the smaller engine for landings on earth, but I'm not a massive fan of it. I think it'd be too underpowered for the fast re-entry/sudden deceleration approach I take to landing on the moon.
 
these moon rockets are too big, more weight = more power needed = more fuel = more weight. Less is more sometimes. Let me get a pic of mine up.

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stage 1 is one gimbled rocket + 4 ungimbled rockets. Those 4 rockets and the tanks above them feed into the middle one untill the last tank, allowing them to be dropped off while the single middle rocket stays burning to get you into a 100x100k orbit. There is normally a bit of fuel left to start the burn to the moon.

stage 2 gets you to the moon, and is used to capture and deorbit burn down to sub 100m/s.

stage 3 is the new engine in version 0.14 and is enough to get you landed and all the way back to earth.




My next goal is to leave parts on the surface of the moon and try and land next to them with my other trips and make a little town of rocket parts lol.
 
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Persistence will be the death of me. I just almost killed three crews trying to blow up a piece of debris that somehow managed to land in the ocean... what? Well i can't just let it stay there! It will be in my tracking station forever, reminding me what a failure i am :D
 
Paid for 0.14 and im addicted! Although Im really struggling with the theory behind orbiting, I can either burn directly out to the moon through sheer power and ignorance, or try and orbit once and slingshot out, but i've only tried that once and it seemed to be more by luck than judgement! Any advice????

edit: I cant workout how the icons on the gimbal work either / or what they mean? I mean the yellow one and the pink one. Thanks.
 
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yellow one thats just a circle is the direction you going, yellow one with a cross through it is retrograde ie you facing where you came from, and the pink one is where the launch pad is. You cant (realistically) burn directly to the moon, you have to orbit the planet first, then do a burn to do a very large egg shape orbit that intercepts it. A few pages back i did a quick and simple guide.
 
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try and orbit once and slingshot out, but i've only tried that once and it seemed to be more by luck than judgement! Any advice????
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As far as I know the most common way to do it is to take off, gain altitude, turn horizontal in the direction of 270 on the NavBall and get into orbit. Keep your nose on the 270 mark between the orange and blue hemispheres. Then when the moon begins to set behind the earth in your rear view boost out of orbit until your projected path just reaches the path of the moon's orbit: the tip of your trajectory will be about 45°/1/8th of a moon orbit ahead of the moon itself. By the time you get there you'll meet the moon pretty much head on.

PermaBanned: is it debris or an old capsule?
 
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As far as I know the most common way to do it is to take off, gain altitude, turn horizontal in the direction of 270 on the NavBall and get into orbit. Keep your nose on the 270 mark between the orange and blue hemispheres. Then when the moon begins to set behind the earth in your rear view boost out of orbit until your projected path just reaches the path of the moon's orbit: the tip of your trajectory will be about 45°/1/8th of a moon orbit ahead of the moon itself. By the time you get there you'll meet the moon pretty much head on.

PermaBanned: is it debris or an old capsule?
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ooh i might try that method, i do the opposite, head 90 degrees, gain orbit (100k orbit) and as the moon rises boost up to around 2800-2900m/s (or whatever raises my AP to 12million meters).
 
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ooh i might try that method, i do the opposite, head 90 degrees, gain orbit (100k orbit) and as the moon rises boost up to around 2800-2900m/s (or whatever raises my AP to 12million meters).
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I was going to ask you what you did, I tried my method with your rocket and it didn't end well, ran out of fuel on approach to the moon. As far as I know the method I use burns more fuel but is faster (which isn't a massive deal when you have time acceleration).

Some debris from a moonlanding attemp is in orbit around the earth now, so I'm experimenting with debris cleanup vehicles. It's different, I'll tell you that!
 
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