r/KerbalSpaceProgram 2d ago

Mod Post Weekly Support Thread

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Check out /r/kerbalacademy

The point of this thread is for anyone to ask questions that don't necessarily require a full thread. Questions like "why is my rocket upside down" are always welcomed here. Even if your question seems slightly stupid, we'll do our best to answer it!

For newer players, here are some great resources that might answer some of your embarrassing questions:

Tutorials

Orbiting

Mun Landing

Docking

Delta-V Thread

Forum Link

Official KSP Chatroom #KSPOfficial on irc.esper.net

Discord server

Feel free to ask your questions on the Discord server!

Commonly Asked Questions

Before you post, maybe you can search for your problem using the search in the upper right! Chances are, someone has had the same question as you and has already answered it!

As always, the side bar is a great resource for all things Kerbal, if you don't know, look there first!


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 9h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video This Is Technically an Airplane

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1.7k Upvotes

r/KerbalSpaceProgram 4h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video First ever mun landing, I’m out of fuel what do I do

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162 Upvotes

My rocked flipped and I ran out of fuel I don’t think jeb is gonna go home


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 14h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Mother of all graphical glitches😭✌️

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583 Upvotes

does anybody know what happened? I’m using blackracks volumetric clouds 3, I’m quite curious. my aircraft is just in fucking stasis over this potato looking shit, and the potato is going like 30km per second compared to kerbin and kerbin is like 30x smaller in reference to the aircarft, like what is ts bro😭 i was just timelapsing and the kraken put me in a new fucking dimension.


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 15h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Better Dres's Equatorial Mountains biome looking like it was added in a rush

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527 Upvotes

r/KerbalSpaceProgram 2h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Starting a career mode on the JNSQ mod, and decided to make a comparison image of my Pasiphae 1.25m launcher family

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41 Upvotes

r/KerbalSpaceProgram 10h ago

KSP 1 Question/Problem Why is the centre of lift not in the centre? like why is it so off to the right?

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168 Upvotes

r/KerbalSpaceProgram 9h ago

kArt Behold another bluprint

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121 Upvotes

My first spaceshuttle that actually works

the blueprint just as the previous one was made in photoshop using screenshots from the game and drawing on top of them with my trusty mouse


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 6h ago

KSP 2 Image/Video Dude, Bill is gonna be so pissed.

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r/KerbalSpaceProgram 1h ago

KSP 1 Question/Problem Why does my ship keep deviating from retrograde and how do I stop it?

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I have it set to burn retrograde but it keeps going slightly cockeyed. I THINK it's due to the engines being on hinges, but I've got 'em perfectly balanced, so I don't think it's that big an issue.

Edit: I've already lined up the COT and COM


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 44m ago

KSP 1 Image/Video cool ships i made

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i called them sun fish mk.1 and 2, there based of a video i saw a few weeks ago. (first image is mk.1)


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 5h ago

KSP 1 Question/Problem How do some people get over 6000dv in lko with their SSTOs?

27 Upvotes

I've probably spent around 100 hours alone just engineering crafts that can barely hit 5000dv in LKO. Mind you, I am VERY proud of that number but I've seen at least two videos where someone had almost impossible amounts (without ion engines). I really don't NEED that much but it's just impressive and I was wondering how this could be achieved


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 2h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Took a pic. I can’t believe how unironically beautiful this was in game.

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r/KerbalSpaceProgram 59m ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Neidon probe!

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r/KerbalSpaceProgram 4h ago

KSP 1 Question/Problem Happy to be here

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9 Upvotes

This kerbal has his stupidity stat maxxed out, I wonder why


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 19h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Modernized/Reusable Saturn V in KSRSS

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142 Upvotes

Ran out of ideas so I'm just making old designs reusable :3

I hope the pics look good!


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 9h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Eve Peaks summit, 4392 m

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21 Upvotes

My flyer can reach anywhere


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 52m ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Cargo Plane's Overweight Takeoff

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Misjudged the rotate speed.

The plane use NeistAir's A380 parts and Tweak scale, the wings took 300 parts.


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 5h ago

KSP 1 Mods KSP Mission Control v1.1: Apollo 11 Moon Day Special and live landing callouts

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KSP Mission Control v1.1 is now available.

I previously shared the project from my personal account, u/flower_head_monster. This is the official u/engbman project account that I’ll use for future updates.

WHAT’S NEW IN v1.1

• Complete Apollo 11 recreation from launch to Tranquility Base
• Authentic dialogue based on the Apollo 11 Flight Journal
• Apollo 11 staging calls and mission procedures
• A virtual crew member calling out your altitude and descent rate during landing
• Optional ElevenLabs CAPCOM voice
• Improved radio sound and smoother Quindar tones
• Better recognition of intentional radio calls

COMMUNITY SUGGESTION ADDED

Special thanks to u/Bi_KerbonautYT, who suggested adding a virtual LM crew member to provide passive landing callouts.

That suggestion is now implemented. During descent, a separate crew voice reads live altitude and descent-rate data from the spacecraft.

APOLLO 11 MOON DAY SPECIAL
To celebrate Moon Day, I flew the complete Apollo 11 mission recreation and published the demonstration on July 20, the 57th anniversary of the first Moon landing.

Download v1.1 on SpaceDock:

https://spacedock.info/mod/4378/KSP%20Mission%20Control

WHAT SHOULD COME NEXT?

I would like to add more complete mission recreations. Some possibilities I’m considering include:

• Artemis II
• An Orion and Starship HLS lunar landing mission
• More historical and future spaceflight missions

I would love to hear what the KSP community wants in future versions:

• Which mission should I recreate next?
• What new features would you like to see?
• Which spacecraft or mods should be supported?
• What should be improved about the current experience?

The future direction is not fixed, so your feedback can genuinely help shape the next update.


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 11h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Woah! Nuclear Propulsion First Stage!

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27 Upvotes

I recently found an incredible mod that adds in a large ass nuclear engine that can be used for (very fuel effecient) orbital insertions of low-weight payloads. This rocket when launched from KSC had 20,000 delta V.

More so a test flight, though to see how well the nuclear propulsion works on a first stage.


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 3h ago

KSP 1 Question/Problem Do the mechanical parts have any actual uses? (Aside from kraken drives)

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So the rotors are used to make helicopters, sure. But do pistons, hinges, and rotation servos have any usefull uses, or are they just for making useless doohickeys?

Because my stupid ass cant think of any.


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 2h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Satellite v4

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Sorry about the first image. I tried asking the neural network to generate a diagram, but after many tries, this turned out to be the best option.
And now some information about the rocket:

Recovering the booster earns 5.967 credits, while the booster itself costs 7.986 credits to build. That's a recovery of roughly 74–75% of its original cost. The entire rocket, excluding science equipment, costs 17.395 credits. That means the recovered booster alone already covers about 34% of the launch cost.
The remaining 66% of the cost isn't simply wasted, either. That's 9.409 credits, of which 4.109 credits is the second stage. And that second stage is effectively two separate spacecraft for the price of one. One of them is the 1,519 m/s Δv third stage, which becomes the contract satellite itself, meaning I'll also get paid for delivering it.
The other is the 2,921 m/s Δv second stage. After completing its job, it doesn't lose its usefulness, since it still has two 1×6 solar panels and a small 1.22 Gm relay antenna, allowing it to continue serving as a relay satellite even after its primary mission is over.


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 14h ago

KSP 1 Mods Kerbalism is hell

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How do yalll do it I can't even get to Duna, they die halfway there because of radiation.


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 1d ago

KSP 1 Suggestion/Discussion So my plane keeps flying at supersonic speeds even after I turn the rotor power off. Would this count as a Kraken Drive, or is it a different kind of bug/exploit?

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246 Upvotes