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TT_392

Traveled quite the distance, visited 5 biomes, and scanned 2 surface features. Just want to find a stone and a dune, and I'll return home to kerbin.

I figured out my PID tuning issue (turns out my velocities were just wrong in a way that was only noticeable at the poles.)

My little helicopter, standing under the duna night sky, at north pole.
My little helicopter, flying forwards at high speed, over the surface of duna (in a 30 degree forwards bank angle)
A view from the map, showing the duna heli and the sample return craft both quite a distance away from each other, near the north pole
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TT_392

Been playing around with krpc, which is a mod that allows controlling spacecraft in kerbal space program using python (and a selection of other languages).

Wrote a helicopter autopilot, and designed a duna mission around it. Gonna be my most complex unmanned mission so far.

A little unmanned helicopter and a small sample return rocket on a platform. Folded up on top of a rocket.
Zoomed out view of the entire rocket, the contents of the previous picture are sitting in the fairing
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Dominik 🇪🇺🟥🟢

Testkampagne erstellt, per Cheat ein paar grundlegende Bauteile freigeschaltet, Startrampe und VAB auf Stufe 2 upgegradet.

Bemannter Orbit mit vollständig wiederverwendbarer 2,5-Stufiger-Rakete erreicht, Alle Booster und Stufen gelandet (Fallschirm).
Jetzt macht mir #KSP wieder Spaß.

Müsste dann noch mal ausprobieren wie lange man spielen muss biss das möglich ist ohne sich einen Basis an Forschungspunkten und das Geld für Teilelimit und Startrampe zu cheaten.
Ein paar Stunden, denke ich.

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R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵

New #blog post: A KSP Design Log

https://rldane.space/a-ksp-design-log.html

1545 words

Whoof, I haven't blogged in a whole month! I'm 10 blosts behind where I should be for the year!! Time to get my mojo back!!!

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @twizzay @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @solusspider @clayton

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#100DaysToOffload #15

rldane.spaceA KSP Design Log
#rlDaneWriting#blost#KerbalSpaceProgram
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R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵

Time to play some #KerbalSpaceProgram.

Today's hare-brained idea: Make a space-faring learjet.

Not a spaceplane. A totally normal-looking learjet with jet engines ONLY that has mostly-recoverable appendages for boosting it up into orbit, and RCS/OMS (maybe a Terrier for the OMS, puff engines are mad inefficient).

But once it re-enters, it shouldn't be distinguishable from a totally ordinary learjet once the RCS/OMS pods have jettisoned and parachuted down to the KSC. ;)

One of the difficulty is that while the mk2 parts are more heat-resistant and spacious (like a learjet), they don't look like a learjet, so I don't think I can use them. I'll have to stick with very BBQ-prone mk1 parts. But I do have one trick up my sleeve that I'll allow some rule-bending for: a single non-functional rcs port at the very nose of the plane to shield the cockpit from excess heat during reentry.

cc: @amin

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