ISS, the International Space Station…
Is too laggy, lol…
Also, takes A LOT of space in the quicksave file (744 KB). This is specially concerning because my game becomes unplayable when the quicksave passes 7.8 MB (currently takes 7.49) and completely unloadable beyond 8.06 MB… which means I’m dangerously close to the limit, and I want to keep building stuff…
An obvious solution would be to remove the old ISS… But I just don’t want to do that… So, I’ve decided to land that old ISS and launch a new one that takes less disk space.
So, the first step is to evacuate the crew… We’re going to use an STS for that… The Shuttle will also deliver the landing gear for the Station.
Landed! Now I’ll just launch the deorbit thrusters using this beautiful Falcon 9 that I downloaded somewhere. To the guy who made it: Bro, nice build!
Notice solar panels are folded, they are no longer necessary.
Perfect, now that the old ISS is ready and evacuated, we’re gonna use those Ions to get a very high apoapsis exactly over the launchpad… And then, lower the periapsis to descent on the LP….
Luckily this thing creates a lot of drag… and has enough parachutes to land by itself…
Danny would be proud of my landing gear, lol.
Touchdown! Well, this is historic. I had landed other (much smaller
) stations before, but this is the first time I land a whole station ON THE LAUNCHPAD!
Now we can launch the new ISS! This one only takes 287 KB!
Yeahh… Drag, right? You all think rag won’t let me get that thing off the Earth… WELL LET’S CHECK IT OUT! Let’s exit, resume and watch the result!
They said I couldn't...
They said it was impossible…
That just can’t be done…
IT IS POSSIBLE!
Well, this rocket is bp edited, but the engines haven’t been altered. I’m just stacking all fuel tanks together to avoid spend 1 hour building an EC rocket.
Now, BEHOLD!
Beautiful… About the launch vehicle… Both SRBs and Core were designed to be reusable, but I didn’t succeed to land them… They landed, but harmed, so I won’t consider that a victory.
The final step is to launch the new crew… again with an STS…
That concludes this mission. On this new station, lag is minimum and I can use the space gained on the quicksave file to build another station somewhere in the universe… for example, that long awaited Europa base.
Is too laggy, lol…
Also, takes A LOT of space in the quicksave file (744 KB). This is specially concerning because my game becomes unplayable when the quicksave passes 7.8 MB (currently takes 7.49) and completely unloadable beyond 8.06 MB… which means I’m dangerously close to the limit, and I want to keep building stuff…
An obvious solution would be to remove the old ISS… But I just don’t want to do that… So, I’ve decided to land that old ISS and launch a new one that takes less disk space.
So, the first step is to evacuate the crew… We’re going to use an STS for that… The Shuttle will also deliver the landing gear for the Station.
Landed! Now I’ll just launch the deorbit thrusters using this beautiful Falcon 9 that I downloaded somewhere. To the guy who made it: Bro, nice build!
Notice solar panels are folded, they are no longer necessary.
Perfect, now that the old ISS is ready and evacuated, we’re gonna use those Ions to get a very high apoapsis exactly over the launchpad… And then, lower the periapsis to descent on the LP….
Luckily this thing creates a lot of drag… and has enough parachutes to land by itself…
Danny would be proud of my landing gear, lol.
Touchdown! Well, this is historic. I had landed other (much smaller
) stations before, but this is the first time I land a whole station ON THE LAUNCHPAD!Now we can launch the new ISS! This one only takes 287 KB!
Yeahh… Drag, right? You all think rag won’t let me get that thing off the Earth… WELL LET’S CHECK IT OUT! Let’s exit, resume and watch the result!
They said I couldn't...
They said it was impossible…
That just can’t be done…
IT IS POSSIBLE!
Well, this rocket is bp edited, but the engines haven’t been altered. I’m just stacking all fuel tanks together to avoid spend 1 hour building an EC rocket.
Now, BEHOLD!
Beautiful… About the launch vehicle… Both SRBs and Core were designed to be reusable, but I didn’t succeed to land them… They landed, but harmed, so I won’t consider that a victory.
The final step is to launch the new crew… again with an STS…
That concludes this mission. On this new station, lag is minimum and I can use the space gained on the quicksave file to build another station somewhere in the universe… for example, that long awaited Europa base.
