I'm on a polar orbit for simplicity's sake. But be sure it can see the sun at all times to keep it going, or the ion engine will suck all its electron juice in a flash. Get it into space using whatever ludicrous million-Lb-thrust-all-engine-creation you want to use. Those blocky little fin things near the rear are from the support struts to stop it wobbling at launch. The nose cone is optional but may reduce drag and add days to its flight, but I've not tested that. If you want to build one, it's just an ion engine, four xenon tanks, a battery, a controller with reaction wheels (in the middle for good torque control), and a bank of solar panels to power the ion reaction. It's too bad the game won't let me leave it and go do other things, as it won't autosave while in atmosphere. It'll probably fly for weeks with that much xenon. Now it's just a matter of planting some flags and walking the whole way to safety. As it turns out, I learned enough about orbital manoeuvres last night to get my landing site to within just 335m of the stricken crew member. I've sent a slightly modified version of the Mun rocket, this time with better bracing around the top half to stop the dodgy oscillations while under acceleration, and some parachutes on the lander body, just in case I could get enough velocity on leaving the small moon to not have to worry about another pesky rendezvous. I was also 2.4km from the lander, because I overshot big time on one of those fun jetpack powered trips but I ran out of propellant, so I spent a few minutes trudging back only to find that the lander fell over on it's crew hatch and I couldn't get back in. It landed OK, but on an angle, and then fell over while my guy was on EVA. I figured the low gravity would suit a simple single stage land-and-return (not including staging during take-off from T-0) except the legs of the final stage are a few feet shorter than the rocket nozzle on the bottom. I built a really good but simple rocket a few days ago and sent a one-man mission to Minmus, which has fuck all gravity. Good thing you can F5/F9 to reload on the fly. I spent hours last night just figuring out how to rendezvous with the command module which I left in orbit. The Kerbal Wiki has actual mathematics and rocket science. Literally all I know about orbital rendezvous is that you must be pointing in the same direction and that the inbound vehicle should be orbiting lower than the target vehicle, presumably to a) not waste fuel and b) have a faster orbit so that you can catch up to the target vehicle at some stage. So as soon as I get this post over with, I'll be firing up KSP again and learning to not die because I ran out of fuel in space over Mun's lowlands. The only reason I stopped playing last night was after I quicksaved my place on the surface just before I was to teach myself how to rendezvous with a spacecraft in-orbit, then my laptop overheated and crashed. This is the first time I plan to make it back from Mun. Here's an impromptu munbase that I 'built', because really if you're there for a long time it's a base isn't it? It's not the first time I've made it to Mun. Here's one Kerbal on the precipice of a big-arse huge gnarly crater. And yeah made it to the surface in tip-top condition. So I made it safely to Mun, couldn't help myself as I planned to do a docking test flight with the lander without actually landing. It made it after adding more support struts (not boosters - although I had to add boosters to the first stage. The stack on the munbound rocket featured a very wobbly top half, where the lander is mounted to the 2nd stage. Interestingly, the RCS thrusters still work without electricity, so I could do a retro burn to de-orbit the capsule. Pretty cool.Īs soon as I learned to dock, I got to building a proper mun lander, and did something about some solar panels because my docking test vehicle ran out of power. Same flight, but without the burden of atmosphere to dim the view. I witnessed an eclipse on one of the early test launches! That other smoke trail is my first stage which I set free during a testing mishap. explosions) I had a very rough mun lander and command module in orbit, which I used to practice docking for the first time. I saw this video and decided I'd copy it, and built something very similar.Īfter a few false starts (i.e. I had a fun and very involving day yesterday.
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