![]() I found a fantastic tutorial on basic orbiting, if you don't care about exact, NASA-esque percision, then do what the video tells you to do. ![]() I watched that video and was able to quickly put up 2 large orbiters in circular orbits around Kerbin. That youtube channel also has tutorials on going to the moon, theres a thread on the KSP forum about it here.Īs for Jebediah, you can't leave him out there! Save him!!! If you think going to the mun is hard, you haven't tried getting two rockets to meet in deep space yet. Its a fun challenge, i came damn close trying to save one of my dudes, but that was before I had even gotten orbits down. Here's my fancy new solar collector space station/orbiter thing. I highly recommend the truss pack if you want some nice looking parts. So today's mission was land on the Mun successfully with the lander addon I got. I built the lander up and through some considerable trial and error finally managed a ship design that I liked which also had enough stages to get me to the moon and possibly back. The first challenge I met was getting this big son of a bitch off the planet. The first time I tried I was conserving fuel running at about 2/3 throttle during launch. It got just out of the atmosphere but even after jettisoning the SRBs, I didn't have enough power to lift all that weight. The next try (after a few tweaks for stability) was full throttle all the way from the start. Got into space just fine with plenty of fuel to spare. Unfortunately I wasn't going anywhere near the right direction to get to the Mun. Next try I made sure to launch at a time when I could actually shoot straight for it. Took some figuring out trying to line up properly to the moon and slow down enough not to skip right past it. As I approached it occurred to me that I blew through all my RCS fuel by leaving it on when I didn't actually need it. So I was stuck slowly trying to nudge the ship around without it. That sort of took my attention off the more pressing matter - the fact that I was flying towards the surface too fast. I tried to flip it around and slow down but before doing so had the bright idea to drop my last heavier rocket stage, forgetting the fact that the lander's wimpy descent engine couldn't possibly slow me down enough on it's own even at full blast.ġ500m/s, 1200, 950, e bye lander. I'm wondering if I should devote an entire stage to reverse engines of some kind. I don't know if I could deal with the added weight and drag of them and fuel. #Mods para kerbal space program how to#Ĭlearly landing will be much more of a challenge than the trip, but I'm pretty pleased with how close I managed to get without consulting tutorials and whatnot.
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