Kerbal Space Program
TiberiusLazarus
Icrontian
Greetings comrades,
It is time to bring glory upon great Mother Krussia. Join the Kerbal Space Program and you shall guide our cosmonauts to leave Kearth and crush the Kamerican pig-dogs.
For the glory of Krussia!
So this game has nothing to do with Russia, but it is about building kick ass rockets and launching them into space. Go play it.
http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/
It is time to bring glory upon great Mother Krussia. Join the Kerbal Space Program and you shall guide our cosmonauts to leave Kearth and crush the Kamerican pig-dogs.
For the glory of Krussia!
So this game has nothing to do with Russia, but it is about building kick ass rockets and launching them into space. Go play it.
http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/
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Stage 2: 6 Liquid boosters, 2 tanks each
Stage 3: 6 SRB
Stage 4: 1 Liquid boosters, 3 tanks
Fails structural check. But it looks cool.
5200+ m/s
Save it for those nights when you don't feel like sleeping.
I already have Civ 5 for that. Bastards!
For now it is just a fun spacecraft design/flight simulator.
like I made one so wide it crashed into the launch tower launching
The Earth has a radius of 6,378 km.
The minimum for LEO is an altitude of 200-2000 km, and 6900-7800 m/s
So... orbiting Kerbal should be much easier? Challenge accepted?
found a chart for Kerbal:
All three can be found here!
*Note: In order to install these, all you do is put the folders in the KPP/Parts folder.
Also, for people who want a useless, heavy payload to carry / put in orbit.
Also, powered landings:
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helpful tip:
Apogee is the highest point of an elliptical orbit. Perigee is the lowest. Velocity will be the lowest at apogee, highest at perigee.
A burn along your trajectory at apogee will raise your perigee and vice versa. A retro burn will lower the opposite point instead. To deorbit, do a retro burn at apogee. That way you don't need much fuel at all, as you only have to make your perigee low enough so that your orbit intersects the atmosphere.
Figured I'd try just one orbit:
Apogee: 92,166m at 2248 m/s (highest point of elliptical orbit, insertion)
Perigee: 79,076m at 2291 m/s (lowest point or orbit, was about 40 degrees latitude from launch site)
Saw the dark side of the planet, and the sunrise
So, around we go for another orbit...
Waited until the launch complex was 45 degrees latitude from me, didn't have much fuel, so wanted to do the burn ahead of time to make sure I came down on the right continent. 3...2...1... hit the space bar on accident instead of the shift key to throttle up. Engine ejected, capsule orbits forever with no propulsion.
*facepalm*
Mission time: 68 minutes
Ground distance covered: 8,660,579 meters
Most G's endured: 4.1G
edit: did a single-orbit flight. Need more fuel to slow down, or need to do the burn sooner. I touched down in the middle of the enormous ocean off the launch site, beyond the visible render space from the pad. SO LONELY - *grabs a paddle*
Current speed: 1985 m/s
Distance from Earth: 10 million meters
Sun or bust.
lol, that's the escape velocity for 1.2 million meters. You're never coming back!
Built a lifter, used the add-on package to add a heavy cargo. Put the cargo into LEO, returned my guys home safe - very, very far away from my intended landing spot.
weird, cause I'm watching these youtube videos, and in them the people have lots of parts to build their rocket, whereas I only have a couple parts per section
The earth, it is so small!
game doesn't load after putting all those into the \parts folder
edit> fixed it. stupid folders in folders
also, how do you add multiple radial decouplers at the same time (seen in in video)