Most MJ functions are just broken to hell. I'm supposed to hover with the skycrane less than 20 meters off the ground and then work the winch to extend the cable, and cut the cable when the rover touches the ground and watch the skycrane fly away. Basically rover falls out of the aeroshell and the skycrane ignites. Then jettison the heatshield along with the aeroshell and the chute. Basically a crash in about 20 seconds if I do nothing. Chute opens under 500m and I'm approaching the ground at 20 m/s. So I'm there 3Km above Duna with a drogue chute still going 400 m/s. I installed KAS and installed a winch inside a skycrane, and attached a rover to the winch. You know what is really really hard? Landing on Duna Curiosity style. But getting the lift to balance has been a real bitch, and I'm not sure it can be done.Įxplosions, honey? Nope not Counterstrike. I still want to get the tri-hull concept to work because its. Jeb and Bill were Safe aboard the Heavy Lift vessel, though Bill has come down with a severe case of PTSD. Used it (after a orbital tanking) to haul a rescue lander to Mun only to find my awesome Lander may not have had quite enough DV in it for what I needed to do. (it does however burn a lot of gas doing it) I've also tested a version that has two 'auxiliary' nuke engines, and this works pretty well, though getting that much mass moving with two nukes is. This limits its usefulness in long distance use - but it'll launch a fully loaded Orange tank equivalent and gear for attacking to space stations with aplomb. However, I've come to find that the quad attachment point has serious strength issues (Five launches in a row - with a payload and it sheared off at the same place every time) so I had to go to a single Mainsail as the standard power pack instead of 4 T30s. So I rolled the concept back to an HL based Shuttle using the design parameters for my latest 'space truck' I did get a 'Triple hull' monstrosity going, but ran into issues with gliding on the return flight. So I had to dump my plan for a dual hulled spaceshuttle with the B9 parts due to how B9 parts fit together. Very nice! There's nothing like the feeling of relief when Jeb finally makes it back out into Eve orbit Hopefully until the next release, at least I think I can finally stop dreaming about KSP for a bit. Here is a link to the imgur gallery with a more shots of the adventure. I ended up making orbit with 1,200 delta-v left, although I don't think it would have made it all the way from sea-level. #Jet pack kerbal space program controls full#I was able to launch from several km up a mountain, so I didn't need the full 12,000 delta-v. The final 3 stages (out of 12 total) contribute nearly 50% of the overall delta-v. Trimming weight from those final stages was critical. Oh, and Jeb sits in a command chair instead of a pod. Its powered entirely by 48-7s motors, and uses 12 asparagus stages with small and tiny fuel cans. Jeb rode a 40.033 ton craft named "The Magic Carpet" into orbit on Eve. #Jet pack kerbal space program controls mods#Only mods I used was MechJeb and EditorExtensions. It took more than a week of fiddling and failing, but it finally worked out. If you can make something where they're clearly overpowered, then I have no problem increasing their weight a bit.įinally! I have successfully landed Jeb on Eve and brought him back to Kerbin. The modpacks I use (KW mostly) also tend to be closer to real Isps than the stock engines are, so that was also a factor in balancing these. A real satellite's inertial assist engines can have an Isp of around 480 s - close to the theoretical maximum for a chemical rocket, while the SSME engines had a rated Isp of 453 Vac and 363 Atm. It's got the excellent Isp because, all else equal, real rockets do have better Isp if they're smaller. I balanced this out to be only slightly better (but more fuel economical) than a single LV-T30 if the struts, pipes and linkages are included. You need to also include the weight of the support structures and fuel ducts, as these are structures not present on a single LV-T30. I think the thrust should be halved or the mass doubled. Where would LVT-45/30 fit in when you can have so much more with this engine? It would obsolete all lander engines, just make an appropriately sized cluster. Imagine a cluster of 100, would have mass 1.5, thrust 300, excellent ISP, TWR 20.
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