Simple/Quick Questions (For more complex questions please make your own post)

[gusty lance]

Assuming you mean phase angle and not inclination…

It depends on the altitude of your station and how long your launch vehicle takes to get to orbit. Launching when the target is coming up over the horizon to the west is a good rule of thumb for low Kerbin orbit

[hardy arrow]

Its sitting about about 75,000 m above sea level. And is slightly off angle from the equator. Will definitely try that strategy thougj

[short swift]

quick question: how do i enable the EVA flashlight?

[tropic shuttle]

Next to you vertical speed indicator is a light symbol, click on that . Or press U

[short swift]

alright thx

[stone granite]

aigh is there any good way to give big craft steering?

has anyone gotten like robotic landing gears to work with few parts and keeping it light?

[fair bison]

you do not want robotic landing gear, ksp wheels already suck ass and mixing it robotics probably won't help

• bump steering up if possible
• reaction wheels or engine gimbal
• no clue

[stone granite]

well so just offsetting the small landing gears is still more or less the only solution

or I could make it a tail dragger

[stone granite]

tail dragger is actually not that bad

[hardy arrow]

is there any fuel tanks that store only liquid fuel besides the mark 1,2,and 3 spaceplane tanks?

or are there any tanks that store exclusively oxidizer?

[tropic shuttle]

There are no oxidizer tanks. And only plane tanks hold only LF

[hardy arrow]

Are there mods
That add such tanks?

[tropic shuttle]

I play with cryo tanks (adds Methan and hydrogen engines) that also added a fuel switch to all tanks that i can use Lf alone in all tanks. I am usure about ox alone

[dire plume]

you can do ox alone with that fuel switch

[unkempt turtle]

nvm i got it

[late lantern]

Try Configurable Containers. Essentially gives you the option to replace the contents of most containers.

[stuck wasp]

at such a massive size your best bet is low amounts of asymmetrical thrust

such wheels will not be able to steer something that massive. I am surprised they even support it at all

[stone granite]

I got it working, you can see it a few posts down

[stuck wasp]

Anyone know of any mods that enrich eva? Anything at all

[tropic shuttle]

through the eys of a kerbal and the bg dlc

[stuck wasp]

Thru eyes is great but I am looking more for mods that give kerbals more of a purpose (bg is a dlc). I should have been specific

Or even something dumb like eva minigolf

Id pay for that

[tropic shuttle]

i mean you have the eva placed expiremsnts

[granite zephyr]

eva experiment thingy allows you to do that

[stuck wasp]

Yeah like I said, i know about bg but I am looking for more

Also bg is pathetic snd doesnt really add much. One experiment station per planet so its 5 minutes of gameplay tops lmao

[latent yoke]

Is there a max speed that the heat shield can tolerate before blowing up? On my way back from the Mun, I tried to go straight back into Kerbin's atmosphere as I had been told was fine, then I (3000+ m/s) burned up and exploded twice, but when I circularized and did a descent from a smaller apogee I was fine...

[tropic shuttle]

what altitued was your reenty PE? even 7km/s reentys are fine with stock heat shields

[latent yoke]

Might be that then

Like I shouldn't make it steep at all

[tropic shuttle]

what was the altitued?

[latent yoke]

Can't remember but I saw fire at around 60-70000

Speaking of which, does it even matter what altitude the perigee is as long as it's within the atmosphere

What might have happened is I got scared and overburned the orbit so the perigee went inside Kerbin and thus made my re-entry steeper?

[tropic shuttle]

yes. if its too low burn up, if its too high you dont land in that orbit or dont get a capture when returning from interplanetry

[latent yoke]

Is there a particular number I should aim for for the perigee

[tropic shuttle]

35km if you are faster as 3km/s aim higher and do a second rotation

[latent yoke]

I get to 3000ish m/s as I approach the perigee but nowhere near 3000 in the rest of the orbit

[tropic shuttle]

my bad 3km/s or 3000m/s

[latent yoke]

Kind of sort of

This is what I'm referring to, not interplanetary or anything, just getting back from the mun

[tropic shuttle]

still 35km is a good altitued. you can also directly eject from mun to that altitued

[latent yoke]

So if I keep perigee around 35 then I can directly go from Mun and land alive without circularizing?

[waxen comet]

There's no real advantage to direct ascent without circularisation, it just demands more precision and makes your life harder

[tropic shuttle]

i was more talking about from a mun orbit to a rrentry trajectory, without a high kerbin orbit between

[balmy sapphire]

I use 35km too

[dire plume]

i just use whatever Trajectories tells me is good

[balmy sapphire]

Unfortunately trajectories sometimes glitched in that orbit

[gritty frigate]

guys is there a way to upgrade the dessert airfield

[tropic shuttle]

I don't think so

[dire plume]

is there a mod that adds a smaller radial decoupler? stock one is too big sometimes

[stuck wasp]

I use tweakscale to shrink it when I have the same issue

[tropic shuttle]

knes, bdb, restock+, stock

[ember isle]

what stat do i change in notepad to level a kerbal from 1 star to 5 stars

[tall acorn]

press esc (pause menu)
click on the version
find cheats
press Experience

[ember isle]

thanks

[vestal trout]

anyone know what mod this part is from?

[vestal trout]

nvm solved

[wet swallow]

will this work as a minmus first stage

[balmy sapphire]

it works but overkill actually

[wet swallow]

im new to this game as in bought yesterday

so overkill is actually good i think

[tropic shuttle]

Its way too big.

I highly recommend to play science mode, there you learn how you make smaller crafts which can go to their target without problems.

[wet swallow]

im playing sandbox to learn how to do stuff first (docking, orbit, landing, etc)

[tropic shuttle]

I get you Idea. But science mode is for that better

[wet swallow]

ok (most likely wont tho)

[tropic shuttle]

In Sandbox you have direct form the beginning the big parts. Which are mostly harder to control with as smaller parts

[wet swallow]

gotta learn somehow

[tropic shuttle]

Mike Aben Tutorials

[wet swallow]

and now i cant stage

great game

only the fairing worked

[tropic shuttle]

Send a screenshot

[wet swallow]

i quicksaved and my stages are gone

[formal thorn]

To work the issue we need to see what’s happening

[wet swallow]

apparently i didnt control the rocket

[formal thorn]

Yeah you need a kerbal with a command pod onboard or a computer

[wet swallow]

and i guess one parachute wasnt enough, now i have to do it all again

[tropic shuttle]

One chute for kerbin and a capsule?

[wet swallow]

3 kerbols

[vestal trout]

kerbals*

kerbol is the sun

[wet swallow]

I know

[severe tiger]

I used simillar first stage for a Nerva minmus landing, but I underestimated the Nerva's Isp. Now I am returning with all the gilly science and an asteroid.

[gritty frigate]

why isn't my esc key working on ksp. It works for everything else though

damn this is inactive

[waxen comet]

you asked a vague question with no supporting information during boneyard hours of the day

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[balmy sapphire]

kerbal scam program

[analog valve]

it should work, mine is working in flight but in editor and ksc not

[earnest schooner]

How long is supposted to be a class i asteroid?
I just got near a class I asteroid but i see it looks like to have around 100m. But i have some doubts if it was supposted to be bigger, because before i found a class A asteroid with something like 30/40 meters. Could be because of some of my mods but idk.

[gritty frigate]

no in general

it had been 10 hours

eh yeah

so for some context

when i press the esc key in ksp

it does nothing

but every other program on my computer it works

[ember isle]

how do i disable this marker

[glacial furnace]

i think it was one of the f1-f12 keys

dont remember which one cuz i havent played in a while

[ember isle]

i tried em all, didnt work

it randomly disappeared though

[glacial furnace]

(make sure not to press alt+f4)

oh

oh thats good

[dire plume]

i sometimes see it when the game is lagging a bit and trying to load something
usually goes away on a scene change or whatever

[azure crescent]

do the deployable science processes itself?

or should I send one kerbal to monitor

do these yield much science?

should I prepare multiple identical deployable science unit for more science?

Do i have to comeback and retrieve for max science?

[gritty frigate]

why does that look like one of the kerbal has died and is ascending to the skies

[azure crescent]

he sacrifices himself for science$$

[analog valve]

Is there a list of parts that can be changed in Eva editor on orbit?

cs idk wich fuel tanks I can move f.e.

[dire plume]

in the VAB open the cargo tab
all parts that aren't removed from the part selection list can be either put in a cargo container, be manipulated in EVA construction, or both

[dire plume]

does anyone know if there is a mod that give Jool rings? can't seem to find one that gives only jool rings, only one is the one that gives EVERY stock body rings

[waxen comet]

I have an old mod lying around from my 1.3.1 install. I can't for the life of me track down where it came from, but it adds some rings to Jool. May or may not work.

needs kopernicus

[azure crescent]

push

[formal thorn]

You can also just remove the rings from the other planets manually from that mod

[dire plume]

I’ll try both
also could always see how hard making a config manually is, might be a good learning experience

[dire plume]

this worked fine, nothing seemed to bug out or whatever
thanks!

[dire plume]

is there a way i could manually get the rings to be lit from both sides, like most other kopernicus planets? i do know large ring systems tend to be buggy
the rings only are lit on the side facing the sun, rather than both sides
the pack being:https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/topic/189021-salus-a-j1407b-analogue 111/
the forum page has a video of it functioning, so i'm not sure why its broken for me and the last post on the page in particular

[dire plume]

nvm changing a random unrelated setting in salus's config fixed it lol

[ember isle]

Why do you need both sides lit?

[tropic shuttle]

is there a way how i can turn my controll point? the core dobt offer that option and i dont have a docking port on board

[tropic shuttle]

nvm, found a sup menu of smart a.s.s.

[dire plume]

looked odd because of how large the ring system is

[analog valve]

saw on yt there was a button "aim camera" for parts but I can't find it how to activate it?

[formal thorn]

Advanced tweakables?

[analog valve]

yap found it thx

[tepid yarrow]

any way to de-kraken rocer wheels once they've been krakened?

[wet swallow]

whats the setting that matt lowne uses that rotates your rocket while in orbit instead of keeping the rocket static

[ember isle]

oh im looking at the ring system now, the image didn't show up when i first looked at it. Yeah, that looks pretty weird. It'd probably only be dark in the areas directly behind hte planet

[ember isle]

why doesn't this decouple? If I launch and press "decouple," nothing happens besides the decouple sound

[stuck wasp]

try using a decoupler, I dont know those fairing trusses work properly as decouplers

a 1.25m decoupler between the radial point and the truss should work

[ember isle]

i tried using regular decouplers before, they didn't work either.
edit: I was wrong, didn't find the solution

[ember isle]

so, i did the reverse (decoupler between the truss and the craft). It decoupled, but now the second decoupler wont decouple

wont even let me take it off with eva construction

ive decided to just settle with making it really small and ignoring that the second decoupler exists

[dire plume]

any (non-graphical) mods that enhance Moho in some way (e.g. a moon)? in the modpack im working on every other stock planet get some form of change, which makes Moho kinda odd in comparison

[analog valve]

are props working in Jools atmosphere?

[torn crag]

my first probe over Duna has done 2 experiments, and each of them can be transmitted for 57%
NOW, does this mean i lose the 43% permanently, or can i just redo and retransmit the experiment?

[analog valve]

to get all science you have to recover the experiments -> the probe on Kerbin

but redo first

[torn crag]

ah, so, redo and retransmit a few times, and when possible, bring the physical data back to Kerbin?

[analog valve]

yes when you transmit some more times you won't get science sometime

but recovering will give more

[balmy sapphire]

propeller made from aero surface/breaking ground propeller blade yes, but a bit slow due to extreme drag
and probably the only viable option since rocket engine doesn't work in dense atmosphere lol

[analog valve]

yup just thought abt making the Jool Challenge in #challenges

but nice then it could work thx

just don't know how to use props never took them😂

[late lantern]

Stratzenblitz75 and Duckweed used a combination of props and NERV for their Jool SSTO.

[analog valve]

ah ok good idea

[neon swift]

my menuever nodes dont have the "burn time ##" and "start burn in blank"

[dire plume]

was BDB meant to use a different tech tree than CTT? feels like the parts aren't in the correct nodes (i.e. RTGs in the nodes before the stock one)

[stuck wasp]

I believe it is a setting in KSP for 'extended nav ball burn timers' that you need to enable

[neon swift]

I have that enabled

[gusty lance]

Double check, because that’s all it is

[regal anchor]

my game been crashing when entering vab. log file:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GspXMnomG51Zh5YpqQCU8iEc8KbIwyXb/view?usp=sharing

[balmy sapphire]

remotetech kinda broke, dunno if it is related

[regal anchor]

ok ill look at it @balmy sapphire

[regal anchor]

it didnt work @balmy sapphire

[balmy sapphire]

how about shipsectionscontinued?

another mod that output error is bdarmory, then I have no idea

[regal anchor]

but those worked before so i doubt its tem @balmy sapphire

it started when i forced the game into windowed fullscreen

[azure crescent]

simply ask if my laptop with i5-1035G1 can play ksp?

in 720P

I miss my 12600k with 3060ti

[regal anchor]

nvm i fixed it it was when i forced it into popupwindow it messed with scatterer and eve redux.

[balmy sapphire]

depend on how much your cpu could actually turbo to sustainably
2.6Ghz = okay
max (3.6GHz) = very good

[azure crescent]

oh no

most time keep at 900mHx

mHz

sometime clock to 3.6GHz but very short moment

should I try remote play? but remote controlling a pc 21000km away may not be a good idea

[balmy sapphire]

Maybe

[azure crescent]

steam stream play performs very well
(at my home)
but I am not sure what will happen when my laptop is in north America while the pc is in Asia

[balmy sapphire]

lulz ping

[azure crescent]

is there a competible ver for B9part switch?

[tropic shuttle]

Thats fine

[azure crescent]

does anyone have idea why do the sticker gone mess?

and these are the mods I have

[azure crescent]

wait without mod the game can even go up to 170fps wtf

extremely smooth

[azure crescent]

does anyone know where can i find this?

i reinstalled all the 4 bluedogs but still fail

[balmy sapphire]

likely old parts that are no longer included

[azure crescent]

the super engine is gone

[spiral hazel]

what should i aim for on T/W during ascent

trying to tune staging

[dire plume]

1.45-2, but anything over 1 will work

[stuck wasp]

Not really, practically it will need to be 1.4 and above or you incur ridiculous losses to drag

[edgy kayak]

flags broken

[formal thorn]

Tbf Saturn v launched with like 1.11

[stuck wasp]

hey if you can make it work in KSP let me know. In most instances a TWR of about 1.11 does not work for me.

either my stages burn out too quickly due to gravity losses or some other engineering problem

but yeah it did, you're right

[formal thorn]

It just had lots of fuel

[stuck wasp]

fair enough

[formal thorn]

And efficient engines

And ksp fuel tanks are really heavy

[quasi talon]

There’s also not a lot of atmosphere on kerbin so you don’t need to worry as much about drag

[balmy sapphire]

yes after 5000m, getting away the inital 5000m is important for activating vacuum engine and reduce drag

[azure crescent]

1.33is good, will soon rise to 1.4 as propellant is gone

[azure crescent]

5000is too early 30000is good

be ware not to hit terminal speed

[severe tiger]

i cant get my col more fowards

[stuck wasp]

most of my launch stages for KSP dont bother with vacuum engines, I just use the launch engines

[formal thorn]

Reduce snount of fuel in front

[severe tiger]

i had and it was still farther ahead than i liked

so i just went with a small drone instead

[neon swift]

wheres your engines

are they under the wings?

you could try to mvoe them back as a coutnerweight

[severe tiger]

i didnt add those yet

[neon swift]

o

are they like juno sized?

[severe tiger]

thats all i had

[neon swift]

oh

you can try to add them lik

[severe tiger]

im just gonna make one later instead

cause i also only got the shitt nonretracting gear that are usless on anythign that isnt small

[latent yoke]

"Build a new unmanned probe that has an antenna and can generate power"
"The probe must be fully assembled when launched"

I built a probe, I got it to the orbit that the contract wanted, it had the parts it needed, it has an antenna and is actively transmitting data back to Kerbin, and as a result all but one of the items on the contract (the one in quotations) is green

So does this mean I have to start from scratch and build a completely new probe?

What I did was just take an old rocket that already had a probe in it, moved around some machinery and added some more boosters, that doesn't count?

[neon swift]

is there a way to make mechjeb

match the inclination of a target orbit?

[tropic shuttle]

Yes. Set your traget before launch. Then a new option should pop up at the bottom of the ascent guidance

[neon swift]

o

i try that thx

yayy its working

[neon swift]

is there a one to also rendezvous?

[tropic shuttle]

yes. there should be a button too. but i tryed it a few times and it dident worked

[neon swift]

like did u try like on a moon or

kerbin

holty shit

[tropic shuttle]

space stations

[neon swift]

o

[neon swift]

only the node appearing thing is appearing

after i installed RO it no longer showed the "start burn in"

and the other one i forgot

[severe tiger]

how can i guarantee i have enough dv for the mun cause idk in what pov the dv map reads, like kerbin sea level or vacuum?

[waxen comet]

Always read your dV in a vacuum, the only atmosphere stat that matters is launch TWR.

[severe tiger]

often i onyl use part of a stage in the atmosphere

[waxen comet]

which is the reason

you'll achieve most of your vacuum efficiency quite quickly post-launch

[severe tiger]

?

ok

[soft vessel]

You go to the deltaV symbol in the bottom right and set it to vacuum

That should show you the correct deltaV in upper stages

[waxen comet]

what's the confusing part here

[severe tiger]

ik how to

[soft vessel]

Ok

[severe tiger]

i was saying idk what the dv map was set for

[waxen comet]

dV map is calibrated to vacuum

[severe tiger]

ok

thats what i needed to know

[waxen comet]

didn't quite read the question properly first time

[gusty lance]

It does say right on the dvmap

[severe tiger]

i was going to say i might have missed something but forgot to recheck :l

cause i was busy playing ksp right then

[neon swift]

my ascent guidance makes me pitch down to the -40 degree vector as soon as i decouple my srbs are a high altitude in ro heres my setting stuff

[severe tiger]

i need help moving a part to the field science node

how exactly would i type it out in the tech required area?

[severe tiger]

i need help

my plane keeps falling apart

or shattering the moment i try to pitch

it either wont survive 2 seconds after spawning or falls apart the moment i pitch during flight

and i need it cause its a drop plane for my rocket plane

[toxic sapphire]

does anyone remember for stock tourism contracts : if the order of the itinerary matters ? Or can I do in whatever order I want?
Thx

[formal thorn]

The entire plane or just the wings

[waxen comet]

order in tourism contracts is irrelevant

[toxic sapphire]

thx 👍

[dire plume]

i gotta ask: what is the Mite SRB for? i think its genuenly the only engine ive never used, and im not sure what it's for

[stuck wasp]

early game sounding rocket is what I used it for

not much else

sometimes I use it for a small TWR bump for early game launch stages

[dire plume]

the thing with that is where it is in the tech tree
its not a particularly early game part, you get it at the same level as the Skipper and Pollux

[azure crescent]

does anyone know how to calculate the mining rate?
in this page it said if I am mining on an asteroid, the base rate is 5
but how do i check the ore concentration? is it 100% in my scenario?
Also how do I meet the 500k thermal efficiency? mine is only 3K

overall the thoretical mine rate is 5x100%x100%*1.25(5 star engineer) is 6.25/s
but the mine is only 1.8e-3 ore /s

the 0.36 is per 2 drills and wraped 100 times

[dire plume]

right click on a tank on the first craft, pin it, then right click on a tank on the second craft
you'll then get the fuel transfer options
theres also a mode called "Fuel My Ship" where you can jsut click on one side of the docking port and it'll move fuel to every tank on one craft

[stuck wasp]

last I checked asteroid mining is super buggy and the thermals are all wacky. You cant even mine an asteroid without an engineer on board without it shutting off during timewarp. I would work around what you have, try to send higher level kerbals, or just simply see if there is a bottleneck

[azure crescent]

i hv alread had a lv 5 engineer onboard 😭

[severe tiger]

whats the minimum twr for a plane to reach mach 1?

[gusty lance]

It’s not really a question of twr, rather thrust needs to be higher than drag all the way up to Mach 1. Drag is nonlinear with speed

[severe tiger]

the build wasnt working so i just went back to what im best at, subsonic

and i forgot to autstrut my new subsonic plane so it fell apart

and apperently for some damn reason it didnt get crew put in it

[latent yoke]

WHAT IS IT with my re-entry stage that makes it blow up every single time? I'm coming back from Minimus and despite setting Periapsis to 35-40 km and having a heat shield, not once have I brought back the poor Kerbins alive. Is my design just horrible?

[tropic shuttle]

your bottom is very draggy. also you could had stage of zthe expiremnts

[latent yoke]

So move the experiments up the fuselage, like closer to the pilot capsule?

[tropic shuttle]

you can stage them away, befor rentry. just take the data off in a eva

[latent yoke]

And then put them on a separate stage so that I can dispose of the measuring devices and land only with the crew capsule+shield?

[tropic shuttle]

yes

also move the parachutes up or you will flip while descent

[latent yoke]

Hah I never got far enough where that would have been an issue

Luckily I did save just before I launched the rocket

I trust this will work better now

[tropic shuttle]

looks good

[severe tiger]

i may or may not have given myself a landed state and took off with it

and i failed to land to fix it so im just reverting

[latent yoke]

Also should I stay away from SRBs for simple Mun/Minimus flyover trips

[tropic shuttle]

career or science?

[latent yoke]

I believe I'm doing career

[tropic shuttle]

do you have to manage money and contracts?

[latent yoke]

It's just that the first stage of my Minimus rocket is SRBs and they veer off/don't respond to my controls until I turn on the Liquid booster

And I think the few tutorial videos I've watched use liquid instead of solid

Maybe I should just go liquid, those seem to work better

[tropic shuttle]

srb are very chaep. if you use controll surace use a low start twr (like 1,3) and start with a small starting angle of 5° its fine. the big advatage of srb is that tey are very chaep

[severe tiger]

yeah they are very simple

[latent yoke]

But they don't control themselves/their trajectory as well as liquid boosters do based on half an hour of trying to get it into orbit

I don't know how I was able to get all the way to Minimus insertion on my first try with the last rocket, but all I did was change the position of the stage separator and the electrical equipment for this one

So it should really not be any different from a propulsion standpoint

[severe tiger]

controls fins man

[latent yoke]

I am using control fins

[severe tiger]

whats the full list of kerbin biomes?

[latent yoke]

I'm at around ~730 m/s of Delta V left. Do I stand a chance to get back home?

[tropic shuttle]

You could even land and then return

Its more as enough

To just return

[latent yoke]

I mean, every manuever node I try puts me in a circular orbit around Kerbin that has just about the same perigee/apogee as Minmus' orbit

Can one feasibly shrink the perigee of said orbit with a mere 700 m/s?

[tropic shuttle]

Add a node. Add around 300m/s prograde then drage the node around

[severe tiger]

exit in the opposite direction of minmus's orbit

you come out closer that way

[latent yoke]

And, my orbit is nearly perpendicular to everyone else

[severe tiger]

just wait till you can escape retrograde to minmu's orbit then do so

-gravassist

[fickle bloom]

https://i.imgur.com/uQUQUDK.png

[severe tiger]

this functionality works even when escaping an orbit

when you escape in the oppisiite direction of a planet/moons orbit, you dont come out as fast as that bodie's orbit

[latent yoke]

Warmer

But then can I get from 1.4million to 35,000 with the remaining 400

(Assuming I do a retrograde with this new orbit)

Actually I'm thinking of the wrong sized orbit, I probably should be able to make it

[severe tiger]

yeah

and im also close to getting the mechjeb accent guidance function

im just 100 science short rn

but a full biome pull gives be around 75

[latent yoke]

You just reminded me of why I did this whole trip to begin with

S c i e n c e F a r m i n g

[severe tiger]

how many data points?

like how many pieces of data

[latent yoke]

Note this is all dependent on my ability to actually land this thing on Kerbin

Which I tried nearly 10 times with a slightly worse lander design, each time failing

[severe tiger]

well how many data pieces do you have?

[latent yoke]

Eva - 8 points
Pressure - 30 points
Temp - 20 points
Goo - 25 points
Materials - 62.5 points
Goo - 40 points
Pressure - 48 points
Temp - 32 points
EVA - 32 points

[severe tiger]

not science points

like how many experiment runs did you do

or did you only do all those once?

[latent yoke]

I have two of each

But thanks for reminding me to do them again I just milked another 50 points hehe

[severe tiger]

whats the most data points youve ever had?

and again as in numebr of experiment runs

[latent yoke]

I only recently learned how to do EVAs and get the Kerbins to store data from earlier points in the flight

So not much

[severe tiger]

well i normally get all the science i can from kerbin

my record rn is around 100

[latent yoke]

Now if I already have temperature reports in the capsule and I ask Valentina to slide outside, grab the new one and go back in, doesn't that overwrite the old one if I recall correctly

[severe tiger]

there is a part that collects them

so anything able to be rerun can make as many as you want

but the collector only allows 1 of each kind per biome

[latent yoke]

More specifically

I actually have Bob, Jeb and Valentina together

With one of those passenger capsules

Only Bob and Jeb can't get out for some reason

[severe tiger]

im having a bit lower than normal fps

[latent yoke]

And since Bob is a scientist he can restore the materials study/goo

It's just that he's refusing to come outside.

I don't know, I was able to get Valentina out on a spacewalk, she was originally in the passenger cabin, but now that Valentina is back in the pilot capsule and Jeb/Bob are passengers I can't get them to switch back

[severe tiger]

idk why im getting lower fps

[latent yoke]

That has....nothing to do with our present discussion.

[severe tiger]

this is the quick question post

and my fps isnt that slow so it isnt a need for its own post

[latent yoke]

Close any unneeded apps to save computer resources

[severe tiger]

it came back after a minute

[latent yoke]

Often it's just slow at first launch but when you drop the first few stages it fixes itself

[severe tiger]

this was a plane

[severe tiger]

and i only got 2 tabs open, discord and youtube

[severe tiger]

how does the accent guidance from MJ work

[latent yoke]

I am at that point where Valentina is doing an EVA and the only way she can get back in is by dumping the previous experiments, but now that the pilot capsule is empty how can I get Jeb back in the pilot seat?

The GUI controls are all for Valentina

I mean, can't the passenger capsule store experiments as well?

[gusty lance]

I don't think so

[latent yoke]

Possibly a more significant challenge - I forgot to enable the mirror mode when putting on the parachutes

Let's see if one radial parachute is enough

[latent yoke]

Also you were right I might actually have a chance of landing this now

Getting rid of all the junk at the bottom and such

WE DID IT

WE MADE IT BACK FROM MINIMUS ALIVE

[latent yoke]

13 experiments, 370 science points

[severe tiger]

what was the inclination of minmus's orbit so i can put it back without having to close and reopen the game?

cause i hyperedited its inclination to 0 but forgot the original inclination

[dire plume]

just delete the hyperedit config like it tells you to
gamedata ->kerbaltek -> hyperedit -> the config

[severe tiger]

um

wtf

[latent yoke]

What shall I purchase first with my newly upgraded R&D station

[tropic shuttle]

What is your next mission step?

There is no keybind for that

By right-click a part

Mods. Like editor extensions redux

Console?

[latent yoke]

Probably just miscellaneous contracts

[short swift]

can drills get damaged when nthey overheat or do they just loose efficency

[azure crescent]

can i keep the kerbal climbing in one way only?

[dense yoke]

Add a launch clamp (but I think the main issue is the weird and wacky balance of it)

[severe tiger]

well it almost never happens and reverting fixed it

[dense yoke]

I always smack a launch clamp on anyways, it's best practice from a realism standpoint, too.

They can keep your rocket powered while it's on the pad and before your engines are running, too.

[dense yoke]

dipping not as deep into the atmosphere might help as well. There's usually a fine balance where your reentry angle is enough to get you slowed down, but not too much where the drag causes excessive heating of your ship.

[latent yoke]

I just figured out that I had a poopy landing stage design

[waxen comet]

The Science Jr is also extremely fragile and will explode on the slightest contact with plasma, and the entry vehicle has its centre of mass far too high to stay stable. Even just a pod over a crew cabin is next to impossible to keep stable without help, let alone with another part on the bottom.

[latent yoke]

Someone else helped me already, all I did was redesign to put the experiments on a lower stage (I didn't realize I could just EVA to pick them up) then drop that stage and land only with the command capsule/passenger cabin

[latent yoke]

See

Now I spent a good like two hours trying to line up my new rocket's orbit with a broken Satellite that I've been contracted to repair, but because Bill can't do SAS and I forgot to add batteries to the Probodobodyne, that never worked

[dense yoke]

If you match up the orbit and then offset it a little, if the satellite isn't near you, you can catch up or fall behind depending on whether you burn retrograde (shorter orbit, you catch up to the probe) or prograde (longer orbit, you fall behind towards the probe)

[latent yoke]

Based on the tutorials I just skimmed through this seems like it would be impossible without SAS so that's issue #1

[dense yoke]

it is possible without SAS as long as your ship doesn't spin when you're burning

[latent yoke]

Without SAS I was only ever able to get like 5-10 km away at best

[dense yoke]

Once you match the orbits and know where the probe is relative to you, you can just adjust from there.

Start with matching the orbit 1:1

[latent yoke]

But, say, I reach the orbit and the satellite needing repairs is ahead of me

[dense yoke]

Burn retrograde

just a little, change your orbit by like 1km or something

then wait a few orbits, each time you cross paths with the original orbit, the probe will be closer and closer

[latent yoke]

I mean, significantly farther ahead of me

[dense yoke]

once you've matched positions, burn prograde again and circularize/match whatever the probe was doing

[latent yoke]

Like on the scale of hundreds of thousands of kilometers

[dense yoke]

So like, half an orbit away?

[latent yoke]

Because that's what'll inevitably happen since I'm just so bad at the game itself

[dense yoke]

What's the probe's orbit?

Where are we trying to meet up?

[latent yoke]

Uuhhh somewhere in the neighborhood of 20,000,000 m

[dense yoke]

Oh yeah, you can safely drop like.

Whatever, really.

Start by matching orbits, then dropping yours by like 50km

On one side though, you want the orbits to meet at one point still

[formal thorn]

If they don’t meet, what will end up happening is you’ll catch up and then keep going ahead

[dense yoke]

Yep. As you go round in this lower orbit, you'll actually be orbiting faster despite having burned retrograde to get there. You'll catch up over time.

Keeping the intersection lets you plan out the intercept.

If you know how much to burn, you can do the meetup in one orbit but it's way more efficient to do a small burn and wait several orbits.

This does depend on if your mission is time sensitive or not. You might run out of mission time, or ec, or life support, or whatever if you wait too long.

[formal thorn]

Could you hypothetically, after measuring the angle between the controlled craft and the target vessel, plug it into some resonant orbit calculstor and figure out how to do it in one orbit

[dense yoke]

You can just brute force it with a maneuver node and watching the intercept, you just add retrograde somewhere until the intercept point moves all the way up to the maneuver node. Stock KSP also lets you plan multiple orbits into a maneuver node, too.

[formal thorn]

Oh yeah I forgot there’s intercepts, been away from ksp for a few weeks ;(

I was thinking of the game reentry

[dense yoke]

retrograde/prograde. If the target's less than half an orbit ahead, it's more economical to do retrograde for the sync burn.

[formal thorn]

You can fly Gemini and they uplink the burn data to you

[dense yoke]

lol

here in Kerbal we have to calculate that on the fly

[formal thorn]

Yeah

I’ve done it many times

I love how in ksp you can just timewarp for 5 years

[dense yoke]

I normally have life support installed so that doesn't always work

[formal thorn]

In stock I mean

[dense yoke]

If my ship is indefinitely sustainable, sure, I can wait for 10 years for an orbit to match

[formal thorn]

Like in transfers

They don’t take 10 years quite but it’s funny

[dense yoke]

Some do, when you're doing weird multi-burn deep space stuff.

Sometimes it takes several years for the transfer window to come up.

[formal thorn]

I like rp1 since you gotta just set the vessel to go to mars and then forget about it for ten months until your alarm goes off

[latent yoke]

This is all on a timescale of just a few days

And, after circularizing I can pull up the apogee and there is a point at which it meets the orbit (or at least the orange signs show up for the closest approach to the satellite needing repair)

I just need a way to lower the distance gap (anywhere between 5-50 km) between the Satellite and Me so I can actually fix the satellite

And for that I have been recommended retrograde burns?

[formal thorn]

If you are behind the satellite in your orbit

Then you should burn retrograde to speed up and catch up

And vice versa

The lower your orbit, the faster you go

[dense yoke]

Yes, when you're in a matched orbit but still very far from your target, the burns work kinda opposite from what you'd expect. Because a lower orbit is literally shorter in terms of distance, you burn retrograde if you need to go ahead, and prograde if you need to fall behind.

[short swift]

can someone please answer my question

[dense yoke]

Pretty sure they can blow up if they go past the part heat limit