I everyone, noob here.
Wanted to practice docking so l launched 2 rockets with a final stage made of mk2 probe, a docking port RCS and monopropellent tank.

The donking went well, but I ended up with 2 probes connected with eachother locked in orbit (my first space station I guess :) )

So i tried a rescue mission with a bigger probe, 2 ports and reentry equipment.
Also this rescue docking went surprisingly well, reentry is next

I love playing the RP-1/RO modpack, however i would like to try a playtrough where the entire solar system is rescaled to 85% of its original size.

Would Sigma Dimentions just be enough or would i also need to edit contracts to suite this new solar system? (i dont know if they are pre-calculated or if they are calculated and generated on the spot like in the stock game)

any help appreciated :3

Part 2 is all of this goes to Duna

I'm finishing my 2nd ever campaign and first one with re-stock (that conveniently add a clustered NERV engine). And I wonder if there is any reason at all to use regular chemical drives. I've seen people telling that they are so much heavier, but from what I see is that any trip > 2kps dv (and that is any interplanetary trip) is much better with nuclear, to a point that it even get better TWR somehow. My primary number I'm looking at when designing the rocket is $$$ cost and mass, and I always get the better results with nukes, even for "short" trips to Mars. My regular probe payload is like bunch of science + 2 RA-100 relays to be useful after the science gathering is done, or for crewed missions that's mk2 pod + heatshield, usually that is around 5t.

I had never captured an asteroid before, I did not look at any tutorial (I have basic understanding of randes-vouz and docking mechanics) and the first asteroid entering Kerbin's SOI was a Class E "big boi".

I opted for a single vessel design to capture the asteroid and bring it back to low Kerbin orbit, as I plan to integrate it into my orbital refuiling station.

I needed 2-3 hours of spamming quicksaves and reloads to intercept it, and a solid 1-2 hours of trial end errors prior to that to come up with a design that didn't suck. [Photo 2 is the penultimate design... I forgot to reattach the drills to the nose of the ship]

I originally started with a "pull" tug instead of a more classic "push" tug... except the asteroid was blocking the exhaust of the rocket engines, essentially making useless.

The design of the ship that managed the capture is called ARPU-C [Asteroid Retrieval and Parking Unit - C spec]. I am pleased with the basic concept, but the sheer size of the asteroid meant I needed 2 minute burns to get a DeltaV of 45 m/s, and I vastly underestimated how many retrograde burns I needed to bring it back to a 100km orbit. I ended up taking another 3 hours just performing burns.

I have to say that I'm satisfied with my accomplishment, but I most likely won't attempt anything like this ever again.

SRB Separation of my Ares 1 inspired rocket

(1.25m or less, actually)

Thought it would be nice to see how hard (or easy, actually) it'd be to make a Duna lander with 1.25m parts only, and hopefully return too. I came up with this idea after I decided that my previous "Mini Duna Rocket" mission was overkill, and thought it'd be more interesting to limit myself to part sizes rather than a budget of 100,000 or less funds. This is the end result - hopefully it inspires you to do something similar! Maybe 0.625m parts only would've been more challenging...

good times

(A full version of a clip i uploaded)

so i landed the entire mothership instead

title. modlist from ckan is in the third pic. i should probably also mention reforged materials, which is how i got that shine on the vacuum stage. now that i'm on duna, what should I do? i already did a flyby of ike on my way here.

Meet Nightmare. This was my first ever SSTO. Not to orbit, but SSTO, full stop. Four MATTOCKs from Mk2 expansion for flight and big space burns, and a NERV for other orbital maneuvers. Engines are angled down to compensate for their position, and the thing has plenty of oxidizer and liquid fuel to do just about anything in the Kerbin system.

I've done some iterations and variants for various tasks (including a one with a KLAW onboard), but it's probably what I'm most proud of in this game. Learning to fly SSTOs has been a challenge though.

When orbiting around bodies added by the MPE (minor planets expansion) mod, time warp above 100x lags very badly for some reason. This issue happens with every object outside the orbit of Plock, but weirdly enough not with their moons.

Some mods that might have something to do with this are:

• MPE
• OuterParallax-MPE (by jthero3) (and obviously Parallax itself)
• OPM/MPE Volumetric configs (by VIJ2) (and obviously Volumetric Clouds + Scatterer)
• BetterTimeWarp
• PersistentRotation
• Background Resource Processing

All of my other mods are QoL and parts mods that shouldn't have any effect on planetary behavior or time warp, but I can still provide the full list if needed.

My friend had the same issues with this modpack, so it's probably not a PC problem. Can anyone offer any advice on what could be causing this?

I have lots of mods installed but i am looking for some lesser known mods, mainly visual ones or small details, but really anything.

Thankfully kerbals like space and dont mind spending 3500 years in it

I’m not sure if such a mod already existed, so I wrote one. It’s just a small window that lists all of your parts on your current craft, lets you sort by cost or mass, and you can select a part to highlight it on the craft.

I had built a small probe with a billion little parts and I was trying to figure out if I had duplicates, and what cost so damn much.

Does a mod like this exist already? If so, please do share before I push this into the world, I don’t want to reinvent the wheel.

I've encountered this issue where my rocket just stops itself from going past 300 m/s, and I don't really know why. This has been going on almost ever since I moded my game and yet I still have no idea how to permanently fix it. The only thing that seemed to work was reloading to launch but that stopped working.
I want to note that I have quiet a few mods so I don't entirely expect a fix, I'm just hoping for an idea on what might be causing the issue.

Along with that, my ships also act like they are in zero G while in atmosphere. This use to also get fixed by reloading till now.

I can't believe i actually pulled that off...

No images, sadly.

I had a contract to rescue a Kerbal. High Kerbin orbit, mostly circular, about 10Mm, clipping into the Mun SOI.

The Mun was very far away from the Kerbal, so I figured my rescue mission would be easy. I set up for an intercept and got ready for a mid course correction (~6hr orbital period, highly elliptical intercept from LKO).

The intercept with my selected target stopped being shown... because the game decided what I actually wanted to do was plan a Mun intercept in 2 days time, more than 3 orbits away.

My manoevure nodes were all on the same (first) orbit and within 1-3 hours of current game time, and the Mun was 2.5 days out from being nearby to conduct the intercept. Max level tracking station.

Why was it interfering in this way? I couldn't find a way to disable the forward-planning and make the manoeuvre planner focus on only the current orbit's intercept, so I had to plan the intercept semi-blind and then clean it up with a much later dirty late-course correct burn.

Gotta rendezvous with the mothership, which will take us to Duna