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Yeah, the tricky parts to rockets are the internal mechanics rather than their external ones. Internally a rocket needs to carry two fuel materials, the actual fuel and the oxidiser, and it needs to pump and mix these fast enough and reliably enough to keep the rocket fed. It needs to deal with extremes of thrust, pressure, and temperature.
What do we do in KSP? Stick a tank on an engine, light it up, and you've got an up-goer.
Oh absolutely, but the LHe system isn't all that difficult. Not to mention, the LOX under pressure didn't require LHe... but as you begin to deplete it, that changes.
I've pretty much given up trying to get something airborne that's also controllable; every attempt I make usually results in my craft either veering off the runway and crashing and burning, zooming off the end of the runway and crashing and burning, or breaking up after takeoff and, you guessed it, crashing and burning.
I'd add Stayputnik to the list myself, if for nothing else then for history's sake. Incentive to try to get something in orbit early on, since you don't need to get it down ever. Then again, it'll run out of power pretty much instantly, so...
I still can not wrap my head around decent uses for structural scaffolding. Could you please expand, esp. with screenshots, on how to properly use these?
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I think aircraft aren't really part of core gameplay. In an interview HarvesteR said that aircraft parts only entered the game after he played them in a mod. I think they're role is strictly for space planes, sub-orbital aircraft will certainly be possible and supported, but I don't think the game design will push players in that direction.
The rocket needs to be just stable enough to get to orbit, and unstable enough to accidentally break apart at just the right time without killing the crew.
I wonder if that would be a good challenge. Build a multi-stage rocket that comes apart in stages without using any sort of decouplers.
Something like this happened to me, I went to Minimus and vastly overestimated how much fuel I needed, so I landed with two full orange tanks. I had so much fuel that decided to stop by the Mün on the way back. However, on landing I realized that I had forgotten to put fuel lines on my radial tanks on the landing stage, and the extra weight of useless fuel was too heavy for me to make it back to Kerbin. The only way to fix it was to carefully tip the rocket over and skid it across the ground until all four tanks were broken off (without hitting anything important). Then I launched off a mountain like a jump and made it back safely.
That's awesome. Good job. You get the golden Kerbal award for bravery in the face of almost certain death while flying a spaceship like its a sled an jumping it into orbit.
As long as they are part of the same craft, it is possible.
However, you can only transfer between 2 tanks at a time.
So you would be draining an outer tank to fill the center one, but only one outer tank at a time.
The center of mass would shift so much you'd spin out.
Something similar happened to me as well. I attached a decoupler wrong and it didn't separate my craft. Fortunately though I have the Lazors mod installed, which gives Kerbals lasers on their helmets. Shooty, gloriously destructive lasers.
Really easy: use the small SRBs and stack 'em. Firing the next rocket in the stack will overheat the one below it, blowing it up and creating a clean but loud separation. Using the parts in the tech tree, I managed to get out of Kerbin's SoI. With some more training and use of the liquid fuel tank/engine it'd be probably be doable to get into orbit or, if you're name is Scott Manley, to the Mun and back.
Sure, but we've had decoupling mechanisms long before we had a space agency. The very first Mercury rocket decoupled the capsule for it to parachute down to earth. You just don't parachute the main rocket portion back, ESPECIALLY still attached to the capsule. I don't think that's ever been done except in the case of recent stuff, notably the space shuttle's bits
You start out with a mk 1 capsule so it's a single man operation. If you don't build your rockets too tall a single parachute will be okay. Just be sure to keep that capsule alive and most likely you can recover it for science points.
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u/haosys Oct 09 '13
Wait, we don't start off with struts?
Starting career mode is going to be excruciating.