Kerbal Space Program

[Mlarsen]

Alright, i gotta see what all fuss is about.

Edit: I dont know what the deal is, it super slow.

[Sputnik]

this is so addicting!

[tjts1]

Well i have an elyptical type orbit with a peak around 270k and 2000m/s and low at 60k and 2500m/s. I think I have enough fuel to land now. Yay for self employment.

[cale]

Should just be able to attach boosters to them? In the top left corner there's a circle that allows you to attach multiple items in symmetry too, very helpful. Orbiting is the easy part, my next goal is a successful orbit and return back to the space center or as close to it as possible.



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[Ryan Stewart]

HOw do you use the side brackets? I can place them but I cant get anything but wings to attach to them.

[mrsleeve]

I kinda got them to orbit. I went to stabilize my velocity, and I think that put me into a sling shot like elliptical orbit. Becuase it was good and fairly stable till it was 1/2 through the 2ed orbit. they just kept going last time I saw it the were 1.2m meters away a still going.

[cale]

Game crashed last night around 4am :( was about 3.5 hours into a successful orbit, booo-urns.

[tjts1]

867,622m & 5300m/s. I might have overshot by a bit.

[Dozyproductions]

how does your rocket look like that? I don't think I have those components and I just downloaded this thing like 3 days ago.

[delfin]

I quickly learned that this is too much fuel:



But this is a fine piece of technology:

[CabbE30]

[devon.818]

How do you get the add ons? Something I didn't download or what?

[5Toes]

Im starting this when I wake up.

[cale]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RvVjysJKB4

This should help, I'm using a nearly identical rocket.

[cale]

Biggest thing about achieving orbit is the right velocity, ideally you want just enough to maintain a certain altitude at which time you'll orbit infinitely...but again, nearly impossible manually. Look at that table I've posted, it gives you orbit velocities for each altitude. For about the first 15km, you want to go straight up to get out of the atmosphere. Then you can start adding some pitch, I like to slowly go to around 45 degrees until I'm at 30km up. At 30km up I then try to level out the craft to achieve as much horizontal velocity as possible. You'll continue climbing for quite some time so don't worry too much about getting your altitude, it will come. Get to around 100m/s less than your target orbit velocity and then fine tune your altitude. Once you're just creeping up on the target altitude fine tune the velocity and voila, orbit. You'll notice the altitude will fluctuate but as you descend, you'll pick up speed thus propelling yourself further out into space only to be sucked back in by gravity and repeat the cycle over and over again. Achieving the least amount of fluctuation is the hard part!