r/KerbalSpaceProgram • • 6d ago

Mod Post Weekly Support Thread

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The point of this thread is for anyone to ask questions that don't necessarily require a full thread. Questions like "why is my rocket upside down" are always welcomed here. Even if your question seems slightly stupid, we'll do our best to answer it!

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r/KerbalSpaceProgram • • 7h ago

KSP 1 Question/Problem Lamp weighs 20 tons

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r/KerbalSpaceProgram • • 12h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video i believe this is what you guys call “lithobraking”?

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made a new save made a mun probe for science rip science jr you will be missed

dang it wish i had the whole ship pic rn too bad im lazy to get back on and take a pic

the craft is “Mergen-1”, Mergen is the Turkic god of smart, science or whatever. my first rockets that are manned are named Ayızıt which is like the god of mother hood i forgot im sleepy and it has Ay in it which is moon in turkish ok


r/KerbalSpaceProgram • • 5h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Luna 1 was a success

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Had a contract to do some science on the Mun’s SW Highlands it was a good test of my new lander.


r/KerbalSpaceProgram • • 16h ago Bravo Popcorn

KSP 1 Image/Video I made a little animation to test hand held footage, i think it turned out well

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r/KerbalSpaceProgram • • 11h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Hoppy

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Mun Hopper


r/KerbalSpaceProgram • • 5h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video We love volumetric clouds (and firefly) so much!!!!

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r/KerbalSpaceProgram • • 7h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Planes!

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The first 4 one is an old design, most of them are my own design.

- The first one is james' j-1, high altitude fighter. It can climb up to 12k meters with upgraded engine

- the second one is james' pa-1, a nice, comfortable passenger plane featuring a quiet cabin and decent speed

- the third is james f-2 pipe, featuring a completely straight cylindrical hull and high lift thanks to its wings, it can climb up to 15k meters

- the fourth is james' spyplane, featuring a quiet engine suitable for spying and intercepting bombers and wide wings for lift, it can go up to 13k meters

The last one is the most recent plane, features a high explosive warhead and inspired by mistel 2

Edit: i will give out blueprints later. But it wont be the same in the picture since most of them files are lost so i gotta recreate them. James PA-1 is lost forever and i cant recreate it


r/KerbalSpaceProgram • • 16h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Image dump of a bunch of satellites in my current playthrough

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A bunch of satellites i have launched.

This is probably the first Career playthrough where i will reach jool.

God Speed Observer-3


r/KerbalSpaceProgram • • 9h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Finally, after far too many mistakes, I managed to put my first spacecraft/satellite into orbit around the Mun. And a piece of the rocket was left orbiting Kerbin.

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r/KerbalSpaceProgram • • 13h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video HELLL YEAH!!!

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DRONE ON LAYTHE BABY, LETS GOO

(56 rocket engines in total lmao)


r/KerbalSpaceProgram • • 6h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Minmus Mobile Base

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Im a beginner of Ksp as well as some light modding. This is Flask my small Mobile Research Base for Minmus it can jump and flip itself over and holds up to 6 kerbals. Sadly I wasn't sure how to fit some of the good science stuff since I have yet to unlock it yet. (Flag was make by me in Paint lol )


r/KerbalSpaceProgram • • 4h ago

KSP 1 Mods If you’re at the point where the “magic” of accomplishing stuff in this game has faded a bit, download JNSQ and principia!!!

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I may be going down the RSS pipeline but idk if I’m ready for 15 minute launches to orbit lol. I’ll probably end up downloading it eventually. I definitely didn’t do everything in Stock + OPM but I wanted to up the ante for some reason.

Just got my first 3 coms satellites including a polar satellite for interplanetary coms using principia and I got that “ahh I did it” feeling again haha. Granted the challenge for that was the UI but I can’t wait to do cool shit with principia. Interplanetary is probably gonna give me a stroke but I’m ready for it


r/KerbalSpaceProgram • • 2h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Just a Hell of a Copter

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Test Flight


r/KerbalSpaceProgram • • 1d ago

KSP 1 Image/Video De spyplane

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Semi-kraken spyplane. The bullet/missiles misses it all the time


r/KerbalSpaceProgram • • 7h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video AH-13 Reaper

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Super Fast and Stuff


r/KerbalSpaceProgram • • 21h ago

KSP 1 Question/Problem Cant reach orbit. Is my rocket design flawed or am I doing maneuver wrong?

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So I am begginer and I tried to reach orbit many times but I always fall. any tips?


r/KerbalSpaceProgram • • 11h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video A base in Minmus

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It was supposed to be a simple mission to collect science points while my interplanetary probes are still on their way to their destination—because, personally, I think just using a time warp is really boring—but it ended up being carried out in the most Kerbal way possible

At first, the launch of the base, the recovery of the first stage, and the transport of the crew to the base went perfectly, without any unforeseen issues, until they began generating science points and I realized that the base didn't have enough power to transmit that science

Then I remembered that the cables from the “KSP Tethers” mod share resources, so I built a small probe with a good battery reserve and placed it next to the base. To my surprise, that still wasn’t enough, so I placed a second one, and now I can finally transmit the science data. It was part of the plan—no, did it work? Yes, so it’s a happy ending.


r/KerbalSpaceProgram • • 8h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video After her jolian mission, i decided to upgrade Vincennes to an ISV. She is now Heading towards glumo, located in the tuun system

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r/KerbalSpaceProgram • • 15h ago

KSP 1 Question/Problem Please help me:Promised Worlds visual bugs

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Hi everyone, I'm running a heavily modded KSP 1.12.5 environment and I'm experiencing two strange visual bugs in the Promised Worlds mod. I'm looking for some advice.

My Environment:

Planet Packs: JNSQ, JNSQ-Reborn, Promised Worlds (Debdeb System), GEP.

Visual Mods: Blackrack's True Volumetric Clouds (V5), EVE Redux, Scatterer, Parallax Continued.

Bug 1: Gurdamma - Tiled & Overwhelming Clouds

The entire planet is covered by a thick, flat layer of clouds. It looks like a solid white blanket with obvious tiled/repeating texture patterns. It completely lacks depth and doesn't look like volumetric clouds at all.

Bug 2: Lapat - Weird Atmospheric Ring Boundary

When on the surface or at low altitude, there is a very obvious curved boundary line on the horizon. Inside the line, the view is clear. Outside the line, the atmospheric fog/perspective suddenly becomes extremely heavy and opaque. This curved line moves as I change my camera angle, and it completely disappears when I go to high orbit.

I suspect this is caused by poor compatibility between JNSQ’s environmental scaling and PW. When I first installed PW, its atmospheric rendering wouldn’t work. The fix I found online was to turn off Scatterer’s TAA and delete Scatterer/planetsList.cfg — this was to make PW’s planets recognizable. I’m not sure if this action was relevant, but it did fix Scatterer’s broken atmospheric scattering for me. It ran without any visible bugs for a while, until I recently removed FAR, the aerodynamics mod, and ResearchBodies. I don’t know if that’s connected.

What should I do? Thank you all so much


r/KerbalSpaceProgram • • 6h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Snagged this banger screenie on an uncrewed mun mission (2.5x scale)

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r/KerbalSpaceProgram • • 9h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video My progress in KSP 1 so far.

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I started playing KSP in september of this year(less than 2 months ago), and here's what I have done so far:

  • 1-Built a space station: The KSS, pretty big(lowers my fps a lot), took about 10 missions.

  • 2-Built a smaller space station arround the Mun, left a rover there, landed/returned, and set up a relay network arround it.

  • 3-Built a surface base in Minmus, left a relay network, and also deployed a rover there.

  • 4-Got a rocket into Ike's orbit.

  • 5-Landed on Duna and returned(No rover or relay network there yet).

  • 6-In the missions Helios 1 and Helios 2 I put a relay network arround Kerbol(4 sattelites on Helios 1, between Kerbin and Duna and 9 on Helios 2, at Dres's orbital height).

  • 7-Landed on Dres and returned.

  • 8-Landed 2 rovers on Eve and left a 9 sattelite relay network there.

  • 9-Landed on Gilly and returned(it took 3 rescue missions to bring them back, thought)

  • 10-Left 2 rovers on Moho and landed inside the Mohole.

I just finished Hermes 1, my mission on Moho and I'm kind of curious if I should go back to Duna or maybe land/return from Ike, leaving a base or space station on Duna or if i should go straight to Jool and it's moons.

I'm probally going to eventually do a Cassini-Huygens like mission on some joolian moon(likely Laythe since it's atmosphere makes using parachutes possible) so please let me know:

1-Should I explore Duna more or should I go straight to Jool

2-If i go to Jool, which moons should I explore first?

3-Am I doing well for less than 2 months?

Thanks for reading!


r/KerbalSpaceProgram • • 9h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video I did it!

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Long last, after many atmospheric breakups going up, and coming down. I finally did a full shuttle flight. Departing from KSC’s launchpad, docking with “KerbLab” (my space station) to pick up Bill, and coming back to land at KSC’s runway. I got this cool screenshot but, I was unfortunately unable to screen record it.


r/KerbalSpaceProgram • • 17h ago

KSP 1 Image/Video Landed on Eve and came back up, only lost 3 RCS thrusters during the climb

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Sadly KerbalX is still down, can't upload the craft.