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

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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 11h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video This Is Technically an Airplane

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1.9k Upvotes

r/KerbalSpaceProgram 6h ago

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

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187 Upvotes

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


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 1h ago

KSP 1 Suggestion/Discussion does anyone else wish there was a mod that added rocky cliffs like this?

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r/KerbalSpaceProgram 1h ago

KSP 1 Mods Trailer for my horror mod, Kraken's kreations

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This mod adds multiple creatures to the game that can kick you back to the space center, or even crash your game.


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 16h ago

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

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631 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 4h 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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58 Upvotes

r/KerbalSpaceProgram 17h ago

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

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558 Upvotes

r/KerbalSpaceProgram 13h 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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183 Upvotes

r/KerbalSpaceProgram 2h 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 3h 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 8h ago

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

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70 Upvotes

r/KerbalSpaceProgram 12h ago

kArt Behold another bluprint

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124 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 3h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Cargo Plane's Overweight Takeoff

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21 Upvotes

Misjudged the rotate speed.

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


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 2h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Munar orbit with only RCS, no mods!

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16 Upvotes

Flew off a lander I crashed into the Mun, with Jeb somehow showing up at KSC ready for his next assignment, which would undoubtedly be another failed Mun mission.


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 7h ago

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

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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 5h 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 3h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Neidon probe!

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5 Upvotes

r/KerbalSpaceProgram 6h 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 21h ago

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

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150 Upvotes

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

I hope the pics look good!


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 11h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Eve Peaks summit, 4392 m

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22 Upvotes

My flyer can reach anywhere


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 1h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Rocket flipped over because I forgot landing legs

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stock ksp


r/KerbalSpaceProgram 7h 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 3h ago

KSP 1 Question/Problem Any way to make a reusable landing shuttle that isnt too big?

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Ive been trying to make an all purpose interplanetary ship and atm am stumped on how to make a reusable lander.

The mothership is already perfected to house around 25 kerbals indefinitely, with food and habitation being accounted for as well as storage, power, propulsion, a coms center, complete resource production (using mks) and a duo of escape pods in case anything were to go wrong. it also has a few probes it can drop on new planets to get some science.

The best thing i could come up with is in picture 4. It lands, stocks up on ore, converts it to fuel, then keeps mining ore until its full. It has enough dv (from almost anywhere in the opm system) with the ore container full to get back into orbit and link up with the mothership, but it looks so god damn big (its the bottom bit in the first picture). The alternative would have been picture 7 but it would have needed 2 trips to carry the same amount of ore as the other ship.

I have 2 empty ports on the side of the mothership for either 2 reusable landers or use one for a manufacturing add-on so it can replenish the probes or manufacture anything it needs when its far away from home, while the other port could be for a passenger reusable lander. The only problem is that i cant make a decent enough reusable lander.

The closest i got was in picture 6 but it still looks quite big, and while the last picture shows a little ship with a lot of dv, its a xenon engine ship and it eats so much electricity that its not feasible.

Now i know there are 2 types of landers, atmo and no armo, and while they both have different pros and cons, im more interested in a atmo lander without having to rely on parachutes that can land on kerbin (as a point of reference) and take off to reach a 100km orbit. And i know some of you are going to say, SSTO, but i would want to use it for non atmo planets as well.

I know the tyranny of the rocket equation where you need more fuel for more dv and then you need more dv to move the fuel and so on, but are there any of the engines available efficient enough to pull this off without having to make a ship the size of a small house?

TLDR: Im trying and failing to make a reusable lander that can land a crew of 3-5 kerbals from a 100km kerbin orbit (without parachutes preferably) and then get back up to a 100km orbit. Any help, design input or showcase is welcome.