Kerbal Space Program

[mrsleeve]

nope every time I try and orbit, I just send them out into oblivion.

[cale]

They're going for their first overnight mission, lets see if they're still orbiting in the morning. TRYING to maintain 42.5km at 2342 m/s, a perfectly circular orbit is going to be nearly impossible manually but a slightly eccentric orbit maintaining an altitude +/- 1km should be doable. If you want to achieve orbit, keep the rocket simple. I'm able to achieve the altitude I want every time with a 2 stage rocket of 4tanks/1engine with 6 solid boosters to get the initial velocity I want.



Anyone else find success in orbiting?

[delfin]

I managed to scare Jebediah:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKO8BqJqVSQ

[cale]

http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?topic=647.0

Escape velocities and orbit velocities for specific altitudes.

If you want to achieve orbit, keep it simple. Capsule, decoupler, 3 tanks, liquid fuel rocket with 6 solid fuel boosters attached to the exterior. This will get you into orbit easily.

Make sure you don't detach your last rocket either....because by the looks of things bill, bob and jebediah are going to spend the remainder of their lives in orbit -_-

[tjts1]

This ended well 2 seconds later.

[mrsleeve]

lol me too I can now get the little bastards so far out there, but orbit seems to be a little hard to achieve. out to 1/2 million meters and still going coasting not really sure if I will get them back this time

[Dozyproductions]

lol. I got them to the moon, but still can't get any sort of orbit. Gaaaaaah!

[delfin]

At least they achieved their dream of making it in to space... I'm going miss these brave little guys. :'(

[delfin]

WTF I can seem to keep this POS straight no matter what I try and do.

Protip: Install SAS modules over your engines and push T to engage them automatically before liftoff. You can push T again to disable them.

[Aus E30]

Gave up trying to orbit while i mess around with getting the ships to work and trying to get heights haha.
I love this! life=over

Top of the world!

[mrsleeve]

WTF I can seem to keep this POS straight no matter what I try and do.

[thebutcher37]

Hope you're spaceship blows up on liftoff.

This ^

[Dj Buttchug]

^ lol

[mr2peak]

no mac version :(

Yeah that's fucked up. Help the Kerbals but screw over the mac users. Hope you're spaceship blows up on liftoff.

[Dj Buttchug]

no mac version :(