Kerbal Space Program

This game is so full of epic it's not even funny, the final version will be better than Frontier Elite II in my opinion, im in total shock no 'professional' developer has tried to make a 'true' space sim, last I heard was a shuttle game on 286 PC's and MS space sim.

Saying that, I think this is better being privately developed as they have the passion to improve it, and it shows, I take my hat off.
 
Currently at a 5km munar orbit and lowering now......

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Going to place my satellite in the lowest possible munar orbit and see how loowwww i can go, satellite 1st no need to sacrifice my kerbs needlessly :P


EDIT: Deploying satellite at 3.6km.

Ok Satellite deployed at 3.6km, going for a 3.2km high orbit now :D

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and chase cam satellite in for ground my ship in the distance:

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Can't remember exactly what it came to when i last tried a Low Munar Orbit, but if you go much below about 1000 i think you start running the risk of hitting hilltops. Which doesn't end well :p
 
PermaBanned said:
Can't remember exactly what it came to when i last tried a Low Munar Orbit, but if you go much below about 1000 i think you start running the risk of hitting hilltops. Which doesn't end well :p
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:D after reading around it seems to be 3.2km, I just left a fuel tank in a 2.7km orbit and it smacked into a hill at the polls :D, my satellite in a 3200m orbit is fine, woop - currently 'endurance testing' a ship in kerbal orbit and of course the muner satellite, kind of setting myself little goals in game.
 
Fun fact: that's only possible in KSP as it treats the gravitational effect of a body as a single point in space. Due to the distribution of mass in our own Moon a satellite in such an orbit would be thrown around wildly.
 
PermaBanned said:
Fun fact: that's only possible in KSP as it treats the gravitational effect of a body as a single point in space. Due to the distribution of mass in our own Moon a satellite in such an orbit would be thrown around wildly.
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That is indeed interesting, I remember Apollo 10 went into a '10 mile orbit' although that was more just flying over the lunar landscape at 10 miles high I believe, I wonder what the lowest real life orbit you could do around the moon ? how high did the command modules orbit during apollo?

I love learning about these things that are usually left out, I mean, them orbiting the moon was at insane speed and the lunar lander was such a fragile machine, and small, and yet it was going from many thousands of miles per hour to stationary, and back again, just truely mind blowing, what is the moons orbital speed ? id guess something around 3000-7000mph dependant on altitude.
 
Well i've had quite a few unsuccessful tests today. Not that many deaths, however. I think i've taught myself most of the physics i need to write a program that will design rockets for me. Not just for the programming skills ;)
 
PermaBanned said:
Well i've had quite a few unsuccessful tests today. Not that many deaths, however. I think i've taught myself most of the physics i need to write a program that will design rockets for me. Not just for the programming skills ;)
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Good stuff yeah been doing a lot of flights, got a few satallites in orbit now at 615km, trying to get loads on the go :D
 
I've gone off making rockets, trying to land on the moon or making nice orbits. Flying planes and landing again is much more fun!
I've found it annoying that every time I've managed to put something into orbit it seems to either disappear, or not let me jump back into it to enjoy the view :/
 
PinkFloyd said:
I've gone off making rockets, trying to land on the moon or making nice orbits. Flying planes and landing again is much more fun!
I've found it annoying that every time I've managed to put something into orbit it seems to either disappear, or not let me jump back into it to enjoy the view :/
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Can you expand on that? :o
Because it certainly shouldn't be restricting you, or not keeping the save!

Do you pless "End Flight" when in a stable orbit, or "Return to VAB" ?
 
Just going to share a few screenies :D spent a good while getting a stable jet into the air, and having enough fuel to cross that giant ocean.

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Off course, you may notice the fuel....

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Did not look, as smooth as it did on the map or on the fly over....at least i survived! i claim this part and i shall call it "Scotland".
 
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Imagine I'll spend half of today making planes. It's fun just making the most stupid thing possible and trying to get it to fly :D
 
Seanoog said:
Can you expand on that? :o
Because it certainly shouldn't be restricting you, or not keeping the save!

Do you pless "End Flight" when in a stable orbit, or "Return to VAB" ?
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Well lets take landing a plane cleanly as an example. I've landed, all in one place, fuel, kerbals alive. I hit end flight and go back to the tracking centre. I can see the ship where it landed (sometimes - did just now)
But from the tracking centre I can't jump back into it? Am I missing something? Should that be possible?!


edit. Figured it out. I'd been hitting End Flight / Return to building. Rather than pressing Space Centre which leaves the craft in place. I've now got my reusable horizontal take off/land space plane sat orbiting at 130km :D
Now I can actually work on making a space station properly....
 
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Heard about this ages ago but completely forgot about it! Opened the wallet up earlier and gave it a download - it's rather good fun!

Haven't downloaded any mods for it yet, so purely vanilla, and it is surprisingly intuitive. Probably spent a good few hours on it now. Several Rocket launches that didn't end to well, although my Kerbals have only died once so far!

Currently watching a Cockpit in its own orbit around the Sun... I kind of went overboard on some Liquid Engines to see how quick I could get it...

Think the highest speed I've reached so far is over 18000m/s when coming to the Sun's periapsis... Furthest away so far was something 18000M km... Might leave this one as it is and try and get a more "controlled" rocket and get an effective orbit around the planet... :D

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Just hit that orbit again, hit just over 20500m/s :D
 
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An update on my last jet exploration :)

Decided to make a much simpler jet, with just 1 engine to start and finish. Did it very well, stable aswell!

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i can even land on rough terrain and move around :)
 
Much easier making and launching planes from the space pad.
Just use a few solid rocket boosters to get speed up and level out before they die.

Much easier to build, don't crash of the runway and far less lag.
 
Managed to get several more orbits up and running earlier, and tried an adventurous attempt at reaching the moon, think I need to rethink my ship designs solely for that purpose - got a nice orbit going around the planet, but aligning back to the moon was hard and ended up drifting away with no fuel left...

Got a plane up and running (finally!) after several attempts and taking off and tweaking minor things. Was a nightmare to try and navigate though, if it banked to hard that was it gone. Got the balance just right now and managed a nice little orbit of the planet and landed back at base. Well, not the runway, but still in the base... ;)
 
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