Kerbal Space Program

Leonel · Jul 15, 2011

I discovered a cool game a few days ago that consists of constructing rockets and sending astronauts into space called the Kerbal Space Program! The way you build rockets and the world you launch from are very Spore-esk and really should have been what the beginning of the Space stage of Spore should have been in the first place.

Here's one of my capsules in orbit. Unfortunately the three astronauts exploded in a ball of flame as the capsule gently touched down.

http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/

GoodGame · Jul 15, 2011

Looks pretty interesting, I'll have to check it out.

Maniacal · Jul 16, 2011

This game is awesome

My first attempts yesterday.

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And now for today after I installed a mod pack of some big space shuttle like stuff.

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Luckymoose · Jul 16, 2011

Played it and made it into orbit with a traditional liquid rocket after much testing of whacky designs. Good game, can't wait for the final release.

MaxaTheGreat · Jul 16, 2011

Looks cool. Will try it out soon.

Luckymoose · Jul 17, 2011

This game is addictive.

That flight made it over the million meter mark by a bunch.

ZeletDude · Jul 17, 2011

I downloaded the game yesterday and WOW it's fun

Lift off

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Second Stage

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Third Stage

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Coming Home

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How did you guys get so far into orbit

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Skwink · Jul 17, 2011

Imma blow stuff up as soon as it comes out for Mac! (which is in the works they said)

Leonel · Jul 17, 2011

ZeletDude said:
I downloaded the game yesterday and WOW it's fun

Lift off

Spoiler :

Second Stage

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Third Stage

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Coming Home

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How did you guys get so far into orbit ..

You know the liquid fuel rockets have variable throttling, right? The boosters are just ignite and nothing can stop them but the liquid fuel rockets you can adjust high or low. It looks like you had it on half power.

ZeletDude · Jul 17, 2011

Actually, I built a rocket and I got to a million KM's before I was bored and exited out

Luckymoose · Jul 18, 2011

Nothing screams fun like 40 solid fuel rockets flinging a capsule into space at 6000 m/s.

MaxaTheGreat · Jul 18, 2011

I was about to launch my first rocket when the power went out... :mad:

EDIT: my first sucessful flight reached 353231 m and had a top speed of 1760.4 m/s. I'll post a pic tomorrow.

MaxaTheGreat · Jul 20, 2011

My new record is 2.2 million meters (2,270,803 m to be exact) and 2570.7 m/s. Here's a pic from another flight with the same ship:

Dreadnought · Jul 20, 2011

Is it possible to go so high as to not be within the planet's gravity anymore?

Oh, and I stink at this game, heh.

Luckymoose · Jul 21, 2011

I have yet to find such a height.

MaxaTheGreat · Jul 21, 2011

Dreadnought said:
Is it possible to go so high as to not be within the planet's gravity anymore?

Oh, and I stink at this game, heh.

Yes, but I don't know what height you have to be at. Even 2 million isn't enough.

There's also escape velocity, but I don't know what that is either.

Dreadnought · Jul 21, 2011

I've heard that people have entered stable orbits before too. Sounds tough though, especially conserving fuel.

trader/warrior · Jul 21, 2011

If you get over escape velocity of something around 3400m/s IIRC, you will keep going forever. And to get a stable orbit at 50000m you need a horizontal speed of 2330m/s and a lot of fine tuning.

Heres a great video guide by a real life astrophysicist on how to get into orbit with a very simple rocket.

Link to video.

Dachs · Jul 21, 2011

trader/warrior said:
If you get over escape velocity of something around 3400m/s IIRC, you will keep going forever.

Actually, escape velocity from Earth (wrt Earth's gravity anyway) is ~11200 m/s

this is impractical, though, so what you usually do is put something in low-Earth orbit and then accelerate to ~10900 m/s

trader/warrior · Jul 21, 2011

Checked it and escape velocity in the game is 3430.27 m/s.

The planet is quite different from earth, just 600km in diameter and unrealistically dense to create better gameplay.

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