[QUOTE=fox '09;37116186][URL="http://postimage.org/image/g6pr8k8kb/full/"][IMG]http://s17.postimage.org/m7ng5mv6n/KSP_2012_08_07_00_33_11_66.png[/IMG][/URL]
To those who build large rockets, how do you get it to fly on trajectory? this one is 6 meters and weighs around 600 tonnes. that little speck under the engines is an astronaut. I've tried ullage boosters (not enough) and fins, but I don't think those will get me anywhere. I'm going to try increasing the gimbal range, but I don't know if that will do anything. I don't think this will ever work, but i'd love to see if it could.[/QUOTE]
If you feel like editing the drag values, make everything that's lower on the rocket have more drag than everything higher on the rocket.
If the tip has more drag, it will start pulling the rocket to the side as soon as you go fast and point slightly away from prograde.
Squeegy suggested I make my lander articulate which made it able to compact itself into a smaller payload fairing but the trade off was its robustness which was one of the key points that made the original so effective
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/pGA8C.png[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/sMY2h.png[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Winstonn;37117624]A new, true colour image from Curiosity, through another dusty lens cap (it's also compressed to hell so it could get back quickly)
[img]http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/674081main_PIA15691-43_1024-768.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
They lie it's just rollin through the rocky mountains.
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[QUOTE=Scientist2;37118930]They lie it's just rollin through the rocky mountains.[/QUOTE]
With a webcam from 1999
[editline]7th August 2012[/editline]
The world is flat.
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[QUOTE=Captain Forever;37117982]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/sMY2h.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Wow that's really compact..
[QUOTE=Winstonn;37117624]A new, true colour image from Curiosity, through another dusty lens cap (it's also compressed to hell so it could get back quickly)
[img]http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/674081main_PIA15691-43_1024-768.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Don't you just hate it when people hold the camera at a weird angle to make the picture seem more exciting.
Even robots are doing it now.
[QUOTE=st0rmforce;37119253]Don't you just hate it when people hold the camera at a weird angle to make the picture seem more exciting.
Even robots are doing it now.[/QUOTE]
That camera is on the end of the robotic arm which has not been deployed yet. The camera that took the picture also has its lens cap on still.
[QUOTE=Pelf;37119407]That camera is on the end of the robotic arm which has not been deployed yet. The camera that took the picture also has its lens cap on still.[/QUOTE]
The joke your head etc
-Snippity- Apparently, my assumption was wrong. Oh well.
[QUOTE=st0rmforce;37119253]Don't you just hate it when people hold the camera at a weird angle to make the picture seem more exciting.
Even robots are doing it now.[/QUOTE]
"Decided to take this photo today! I'm so ~curious~ XDDD I don't care what you ESA haterrzz say! #Martian2012"
Not only can I not respect curiosity anymore, I also got a searing migrane from trying to type that.
[QUOTE=Winstonn;37117624]A new, true colour image from Curiosity, through another dusty lens cap (it's also compressed to hell so it could get back quickly)
[img]http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/674081main_PIA15691-43_1024-768.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Is it just me, or was that picture taken with instagram?
[QUOTE=Iziraider;37120228]Is it just me, or was that picture taken with instagram?[/QUOTE]
yeah it's the 'dusty mars-rover lens cap' filter
[QUOTE=ZombieWaffle;37111285]How do I increase orbit eccentricity?[/QUOTE]
To be more specific,
you have to burn retrograde ( the opposite way you are traveling) at periapsis
OR prograde (the way you are traveling) at apoapsis
So here's this payload...
[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15450289/kspscreenshot6.jpg[/img]
...and here's whats inside it.
[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15450289/kspscreenshot7.jpg[/img]
Now to get it to the mun, somehow.
[QUOTE=Squeegy Mackoy;37122127]So here's this payload...
[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15450289/kspscreenshot6.jpg[/img]
...and here's whats inside it.
[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/15450289/kspscreenshot7.jpg[/img]
Now to get it to the mun, somehow.[/QUOTE]
What is the payload even?
[QUOTE=cpt.armadillo;37122158]What is the payload even?[/QUOTE]
Space umbrella.
[img]http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/3589/ksp2012080712061906.jpg[/img]
Damnit.
Everything went perfectly right up until actually landing, because I was landing on the dark side of the moon and couldn't see the ground. I was expecting to see rocks but I seem to have picked the one spot without any so I bumped into the ground unexpectedly going 30m/s at 947m.
At least I got the launch vehicle down, hell I over designed it, the main boosters could have put me in orbit around the sun and still had fuel.
We need landing lights.
[QUOTE=OvB;37122581]We need landing lights.[/QUOTE]
fund it.
[QUOTE=OvB;37122581]We need landing lights.[/QUOTE]
There are floodlights in bigtrack, and some other mod.
When you feel bad smashing debris into the mun or minmus remember that Nasa makes that too.
Can you rotate things without snapping to angles?
I have that pod for more crew members but it doesn't line up with the 3 kerbal pod and its annoying me so much.
That one option at the top doesn't help.
Disregard! Module itself was updated!
[QUOTE=-Xemit-;37124644]The sky crane went boom? Now that's cool.[/QUOTE]
Yes, once it had landed Curiosity, it was cut loose and sent to a safe distance.
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[QUOTE=Rapist;37124651]Can you rotate things without snapping to angles?
I have that pod for more crew members but it doesn't line up with the 3 kerbal pod and its annoying me so much.
That one option at the top doesn't help.
Disregard! Module itself was updated![/QUOTE]
Well it is possible.
Shift + WASD
[QUOTE=-Xemit-;37125211]I thought it would just fly away until it runs out of fuel, fall down and get smashed to bits. I didn't expect it would have enough fuel left to make a huge scorch mark like that.[/QUOTE]
When in doubt, pack 3x more fuel than you need
[QUOTE=-Xemit-;37125211]I thought it would just fly away until it runs out of fuel, fall down and get smashed to bits. I didn't expect it would have enough fuel left to make a huge scorch mark like that.[/QUOTE]
if you read the article, the dark spot is where the lighter colored surface material got blown away so that you can see the darker colored material underneath. The same as around the rover landing site, the engines blowing away the material as it set the rover down made the area around the rover a bit darker due to the material underneath the surface being a darker.
edit: the article [url]http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/PIA16001.html[/url]
[QUOTE=Skwee;37125263]if you read the article, the dark spot is where the lighter colored surface material got blown away so that you can see the darker colored material underneath.
edit: the article [url]http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/PIA16001.html[/url][/QUOTE]
They should investigate the surface material at the crash site.
[QUOTE=Nutt007;37125339]They should investigate the surface material at the crash site.[/QUOTE]
If you mean the crash site of the sky crane, it is in the opposite direction than the one the rover will be traveling, they deliberately had it fly north so that the excess fuel would be as far away from the science as possible
[QUOTE=Winstonn;37124402][img]http://i.imgur.com/4zitr.png[/img][/QUOTE]
Don't look now but,
In the bottom right corner there is...
A FUCKING SKULL! OMG! RUN!
[QUOTE=Skwee;37125397]If you mean the crash site of the sky crane, it is in the opposite direction than the one the rover will be traveling, they deliberately had it fly north so that the excess fuel would be as far away from the science as possible[/QUOTE]
I like how the science is a thing
Anyone else wants to see the need for heatshields when landing on planets with atmosphere?
[QUOTE=-Xemit-;37125211]I thought it would just fly away until it runs out of fuel, fall down and get smashed to bits. I didn't expect it would have enough fuel left to make a huge scorch mark like that.[/QUOTE]
Nope.
From what I remember from the stream, they said it actually had over 50% of fuel left.
(Don't want any interplanetary range anxiety)
Has anyone else noticed that KSPs automatic decide-which-stage-this-part-goes in has gotten really awful?
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