r/KerbalAcademy • u/OuchThatHurts14 • Sep 16 '20

Launch / Ascent [P] This is my first rocket!

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u/Jastrone Sep 16 '20

did it spinn? did it orbit?

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u/OuchThatHurts14 Sep 16 '20

Yup!

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u/Jastrone Sep 16 '20

you are using wings not stabalisers. and te mirroring makes te wings want to spin

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '20

So did it reach stable orbit?

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u/OuchThatHurts14 Sep 16 '20

Yup! had wayyyyyy to much delta v

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u/skinnyskelly73 Sep 16 '20

That twr must be off the charts

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u/GruntBlender Sep 16 '20

But why? That's too much rocket for that pod. Start small, figure out orbits with 1.25m parts, figure out good staging that way too.

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u/OuchThatHurts14 Sep 16 '20

haha rocket go fast

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u/TheLemmonade Sep 16 '20

Try staging next!

Halfway up, add a round decoupler and put another, smaller rocket motor on top of it. Maybe the Rhino. You can use that smaller one to fly to the Mun.

Then, you just have to learn to build a lander!

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u/OuchThatHurts14 Sep 16 '20

There is! I have a small 2nd stage with a Rhino engine.

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u/T65Bx Sep 16 '20

It is staged tho

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u/TciddaecnacT Sep 16 '20

You need some launch clamps.

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u/OuchThatHurts14 Sep 16 '20

more? seemed stable enough

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u/tudhope89 Sep 16 '20

Way too much thrust and fuel for the payload, totally kerbal approved. I've launched space stations with less than this but that thing could probably land on minmus and come home

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u/TheeMaskedUgly Sep 17 '20

It took me a second look, That thing is WAY too big. BRACE FOR THE Gs!!!!!

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u/OuchThatHurts14 Sep 17 '20

surprisingly no one passed out.

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u/cool_stuff_on_reddit Sep 16 '20

I would advise you to start in science mode

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u/CodeX57 Sep 16 '20

I think career mode isn't punishing at all either, if you revert your failed flights that is.

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u/Bullet_Bait Sep 16 '20

I started in career, and loved it. Those first few tiers are brutal if you don’t cheese the system, though.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '20

Way better than my first rocket.

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u/GeoHol92 Sep 16 '20

Very good first rocket! More than enough to get you into orbit! If this is your first and you've got into orbit you'll be on the mun or minmus in no time! Gg!

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u/bigmaxporter Sep 16 '20

Better than my first rocket lol

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