The CURSED FLIGHT!! In KSP 10% science mode. Everything ... will be ... okay ........ maybe. \ 23

There is no way around this. I'm going to have to make some changes to this craft. The concept works, it just need fine tuning and the placement of the fins is the key.
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GAME : Kerbal Space Program VERSION 1.12.5
MUSIC : Kerbal Space Program 2
Surviving Mars
Star Field
Battle Stations 1997
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DLCs:
BREAKING GROUND & MAKING HISTORY EXPANSION
(NOT of the VANILLA game but still counts as STOCK and not a 3rd party MOD)
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MODS:
MANUAL Downloads for KSP VERSION 1.12.5
T.U.R.D. Textures Unlimited Recolour Depot (Paint Crafts)
Download it here: forum.kerbalsp...
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SIMPLE CONSTRUCTION (Building and mining for metals)
www.curseforge...
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CKAN Downloads for KSP VERSION 1.12.5
PARALLAX (Ground enhanced visuals)
FREE IVA (walk around the spaceship)
EVA FOLLOWER (Have Kerbals follow you)
CONFORMAL DECALS (Decal Craft Parts)
WATER FALL ( Makes rocket exhaust and sound better )
CHATTERER ( Kerbal radio ingame voices )
EASY VESSEL SWITCH (Press ALT and click on any craft)
CAMERA TOOLS CONTINUED (Cinematic stuff - Thumbnail Pictures )
KERBAL ENGINEER (Technical readouts)
TRAJECTORIES ( Shows flight path prediction )
ASTRONOMERS VISUAL PACK (Planets, Stars,)
ENVIRONMENTAL VISUAL ENHANCEMENTS ( City lights, Stars etc...)
PLANET SHINE (Light reflecting off of planet\moon onto your ship)
SCATTERER (Realistic water, Realistic sky\space lighting)
VESSEL MOVER CONTINUED (Move craft over planet surface quickly)
RCS BUILD AID (Helps with RCS thruster placement)
GALAXIES UNBOUND ( Adds additional solar systems)
NIGHT SHIFT (Control night and day in VAB/SPH )
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SYSTEM:
- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor 3.80 GHz
- Memory: 32.00 GB RAM
- Resolution: 1920 x 1200 59Hz
- OS: Windows 11

[@Kovnik-08]

Any landing you can walk away from.....

[@spod715]

RAIN WORLD

[@Kovnik-08]

​@@spod715 Slugcat is cool

[@Xzon-0511]

Matt🔥🔥

[@ncasey9853]

You can disable batteries individually, and that keep them from being used. Good idea to keep an emergency battery on full charge so you can renable it when in dire need. I like this mode, I think some of the comment suggestions are based around regular mode where the name of the game is just all ways be collecting as much science as possible at all times. But this mode changes things a little. I think airplane parts should be your next unlock. It's not so great from a rare science perspective, but it'll help with the funds income. A little more space cash will help upgrade buildings and take the pain out of future missions. Plus you mentioned a lot of real life goings on. You seem to enjoy plane and ssto missions. They may suck from a 'progression' to time perspective, but fire up the Steppenwolf, take off and just chill could be a nice way to unwind :)

[@Syntex366]

Vaos is pretty good with SSTO’s though, so having some actual lift parts to use with those rockets will probably accelerate the game by a lot for him.

[@stuchris]

Something to note is that the game won't throw the same easy contracts at you forever, he will have to keep up the science intake eventually to keep up with the contract difficulty. Nearly at that stage though where you can make anything work and it just comes down to design and mission planning

[@alalalus7692]

I believe it was mentioned somewhere before that the aerodynamic markers in construction mode don't calculate hull drag properly, or something like that

[@msbealo]

Now have a mid-strength beer and a lie-down. Jeez, that was close.

[@The808andrew808]

Look in my eyes? It’s what you see! Space cult of personality!!!!

[@Gazpachian]

The stayputnik will drain battery at a reduced rate when hibernating, it will never go down all the way to 0. You should still have plenty of EC to go to the Mun and back if you set it to hibernate in the VAB.

[@Elim_Garak]

If you turn on the option: Hibernate while warping, should accomplish (about) the same. Best wishes to all.

[@friedec3622]

Actually, stayputnik aren't needed.

[@WikaHackenslash]

I bet your sphincter was twitching like a rabbits nose with that "landing" :D

[@Grilled-Cheese-Obama-Sandwich.]

So, i say that re-entry was like that because of the fuel tanks being so aerodynamic. You problaby can land safely by holding an AoA of 90 degrees.

[@branimirleovac8415]

that was freaking close man... i'm glad you made it, and nothing bad happened

[@TheOneGaming0]

One strategy you can use if you’re going too fast for the parachutes to deploy is to set just one parachute to deploy immediately so it will at least slow you down a little before getting destroyed so that the other chutes can deploy.

[@WitcherShade]

Cool that you actually managed to land. I thought with 60 electric charge there is no way to land this thing on Kerbin. I thought it gonna need rescue mission for sure)

[@ford6]

Well that also explains the boosters "mechano-electric" fault... Main bus B is flat, and the batteries are going dark.

[@bobbyjeffsupremelordofcraz3532]

As some other comments have mentioned, the stayputnik will still drain a small amount of charge even when hibernating, so it might be worth ditching it considering you're probably not going to be using probe control at all for the time being. That being said, provided you have enough EC and hibernate it as soon as it's not directly being controlled (the hibernate in warp toggle is VERY useful for this) you could probably use it for a couple of autonomous missions to Minmus or space just outside Kerbin's SoI. They wouldn't last long but it could probably be enough for the days or weeks it would take to get the probe into the right place. You also wouldn't have to worry about the EC cost of transmission if you recover the craft, which could be viable for a minmus probe.

[@jameskessler8102]

Damn dude that was an EPIC recovery!!! You have a talent for story telling.

[@therealdefoma]

I'd watch a feature-length film of this ngl

[@Mr_cube.]

That landing was intense

[@cmbaz1140]

These missions and challenges are really great when you do them you always come up with stuff you would have never thought of otherwise...i have had many situations that needed to be resolved asap witha low tech tree...oh boy it was so awesome...

[@Syntex366]

That was the fault of the stayputnik running the entire day to the moon during time warp. Just remove that since it doesn’t do anything on its own anyways and those batteries should hold up for a mun landing.

[@Zonalar]

Never even doubted you Vaos. Absolute Unit saves jebediah once again. Bob needs to go over the construction plans again... looks like engineering had a "clerical error".

[@stuchris]

I never, ever assume my electric charge will be okay from just the rocket engines alone, i always make sure i can either generate charge some other way, or have way, way more on board. This is also why it's really good for this mode to always test your vehicles unmanned first, you may have less control, but you won't have kerbals in deaths gaze, and you can find these devastating problems safely that way.

[@Javelyn_Shadow]

The StageRecovery mod will automatically recover stages if they have enough fuel left to land (FMRS is better but more prone to glitches like the recover vessel button reverting the flight to launch) and it even takes into account the monetary and/or scientific value of what you are recovering, which in my opinion makes it a great career mode mod

[@cosmic_cupcake]

Brother it aint Halloween yet you can't scare me like that.

[@friedec3622]

"We're screwed!" Jebediah: 😀

[@alexb-mc4jo]

It's the antennas that consume electric charge Edit: Turns out hibernation mode on the probe core doesn't stop ec being used, thx for the reply pointing it out

[@Gazpachian]

Not without mods, no. Antennae only drain battery when transmitting in stock. It's the probe core, hibernation reduces ec draw by a huge factor but it doesn't entirely eliminate it

[@alexb-mc4jo]

Ohh

[@lolermosskoss1834]

2:36 there is a crack on the heat shield!

[@Imarius086]

That was an Apollo 13 kind of mission right there

[@chrisbacon3071]

From that first flight of the video I think it when rather well! (I’m not cope-ing) New remembrance quote: terrier got no power!!

[@bmobert]

It was so tense, i was biting my TOE nails! 😂

[@АртемБерегов-е8г]

This was a real thriller! Bravo!

[@IntrepidHam]

They should bring a hand crank generator next time. Great save!

[@nathanbrown8680]

I think this design is probably salvageable. You had almost enough. Lose Stayputnik and landing legs and substitute their weight in batteries? You don't need electric charge to activate parts (eg. 'chutes) if you have a kerbal on board. You can also lock batteries to reserve charge. It doesn't work on probes because the probe dies, but if you have a kerbal you can unlock it and get power back because kerbals aren't electric. Bind all your batteries to RCS and the mystery drain can't hurt you. 'Though the Solar Nations landers were stylish.

[@Elim_Garak]

Nice save! 😅 Guess the engineers responsible for the 2nd stage were studying for some new certification. We’ll forgive them, if they pass. 😉🍀

[@coffeeAddict74]

HA!

[@DTRedmond]

Was genuinely on the edge of my seat on the chute deployment sequence. Very exciting to watch!

[@americanhat3766]

Hey Vaos when it comes to the terrier engine this early, and using probe cores, always make sure the probe core is on "Auto Hibernation in Warp" aswell as making sure its in Hibernation mode during normal game speed. (Auto Hibernation In Warp is why your craft was draining fuel so much) Also, I feel like those winglets are a 100% death trap when they dont have control, Kerbals were hella lucky this time, maybe not the next tho..

[@coffeeAddict74]

Yeah! That’s was . . . Yeah. The terrier gets me every time. But usually by the time you unlock the terrier you’ve also unlocked solar panels, so it makes no odds. Hopefully you can take out your frustration on some zombie hordes tonight.

[@triganden]

Failure is not an option!

[@darthmemeious9526]

Another happy landing

[@josephraffurty9293]

Had no clue the terrier did not generate electricity. Made so many craft with the terrier and never noticed cause I had solar panels.

[@experimentalmenace]

Bro. 500m is the hight that army airborne generaly gets dropped in standard training with a static line. Meaning parashoot gets pulled out during the jump out of the plane. The fact you landed at landed that at 500 is crazy

[@jameskessler8102]

At 2:08...Holy smokes VAOS!!!!! In the few years I've been watching, you never mentioned the 80°, then hold prograde thing. Maybe you did and didn't hear it. I'm trying it right now!😂

[@charlesmurray9053]

That was effen emotional! 🏆

[@lardbarth5180]

VAOS IS ON

[@gupikot5272]

i stopped breathing for a minute 😅

[@Elim_Garak]

1 min is okay, but pls, keep breathing. We like you alive. 🖖

[@TomGreen-zk8ik]

Ok probably obvious but you should definitely hold off on using the terrier until you have panels. Massive oversight, I thought every engine generated charge while burning

[@cmbaz1140]

I didnt know that...that explains a lot for me I had a few stranded kerbonauts in müns orbit.

[@Elim_Garak]

When you look at the engine specs, there’s an EC rating, indicating (basically) an alternator and how much electrical current it generates at full thrust. If the engine in question has no EC ratings, then no alternator. Compare the swivel to the terrier inside the VAB (right click on any engine in part list). Best wishes all ❤

[@benjaminbirdsey6874]

There should be some way to shield the gear behind a nose cone. For instance, if your fuel tanks for the lander were 2 units tall and the upper story had 6 tanks with 6 nose cones, and the lower story had 3 engines and 3 gear? It may have the added benefit of reducing your stack size?

[@khyron6]

Damn.

[@daskampffredchen]

Is there anything missing to get those Rescue Kerbal from Orbit Missions? WOuld be great to have some in reserve and they also allow you to exceed the Crew Limit of your Company

[@christopherhovord3516]

Well, that was close 😅 😂

[@DeltaEntropy]

Man, that was as dramatic as the Apollo 13 movie…

[@ez_theta_z9317]

moving the fins forwards should work, they're very close to the CoM as is. that with the additional drag from the engine, decouplers, and antennae at the bottom is enough to make you very slightly aerodynamically unstable. i'd probably go for a 3-way radial symmetry, and move them a little bit higher

[@artemisfowl577]

You shoulda got those aero parts my guy!!!!

[@DanRudolf-h8r]

Rippin Inlet

[@thelegogamer5000]

Pucker lots of pucker

[@MrBmnmtfk]

Fwiw you should start your gravity turn right after launch when you're going like 50 m/s but you only tip over slightly and let GRAVITY do the work turning you gradually

[@vaos3712]

that works too 😊

[@tdot8280]

Lets say this in german because i dont know how to in english: WIE KANN MAN SO EIN DUSEL HABEN?! Congratz to the Survival of the two Kerbals :D

[@MadPirateShin]

Horee sheet that was exciting!

[@thebrick.1385]

DAM

[@ianscarff4048]

You should get FMRS so you can reuse your stages more effectively

[@Andersam]

I am really confused why your plan for the stable reentry didn't work. My gut told me it was due to only have 1 landing leg left and that caused the drag to be applying torque and causing the flipping at high speeds. But watching the footage with the drag overlay one frame at a time that do not appear at all to be the case. The only other things I could think to try is to cap the engine off with an inset nose cone (Like you do on SSTOs) that should cut the drag from that down. But with as little room for error as you ended up with... reducing the drag seems risky.

[@TomGreen-zk8ik]

Would it be possible with your current engines to send a mission to orbit minmus in a polar orbit? I tried it in my hard save and got about 35 science with just EVAs, crew reports, goo, temp and barometers. I know you want realistic missions and thats about 24 days in space but you could send just a pilot in a ship with a crew cabin and capsule so they have space (as far as I can tell the only biome specific science at this tech level is EVA for low orbit so no restoring needed). Could be a way to get enough science for something without breaking your immersion.

[@ez_theta_z9317]

minmus is very difficult to get to without maneuver nodes or patched conics, due to its far out and inclined orbit and its very small mass. it's theoretically doable, but not feasible at all

[@lordzoral9997]

I'm sorry but it's the struggles who makes this campain so good. Your suffering is my pleasure?

[@garyblu7150]

❤❤

[@friedec3622]

I don't think you need stayputnik on the upper stage at all.

[@armin3749]

terrier is good, stayputnik is bad just remove it. With the amount of batteries that you have you can easily complete a mun mission. The only thing to look out for is turning off SAS when you are not using it as it will also drain electricity.

[@JonVB-t8l]

ditch the probe core for sure. Its dead weight and taxing on that battery.

[@robertstuckey6407]

Take out the stayputnik. Its worse than useless

[@ChuckUFarley90]

Wings are a waste unless you're investing heavily into Space Planes. Unfortunately, KSP only has 4 bodies with useable atmospheres. 3 are currently out of your reach (Eve, Duna, and Laythe), and you've already milked Kerbin dry of Science, so there's no real reason to keep putting wings on stuff for the immediate future. I know you like your Space Planes, but you may have to just let them sit on the back burner until the funds and Science are more plentiful. Wait until you take a crew Interplanetary first.

[@JollyRogerAerospace]

5:15 VAOS starts to remember why the terrier is a waste until you get electrical generation. You're not cursed. Just not very lucky. Lmao 🤣 Get some rest buddy. Come back to it on the weekend.

[@NovaEngineer69]

first

[@LegoMan-mu3ln]

My personal headcannon about what happened to the first stage is that the communications failed, rendering the first stage uncontrollable. Also, the USA and other Earth countries don't exist on Kerbin as well as the Mun being called Muna, not Luna. So that's been an annoying continuity break lmao, no hard feelings though.