TROUBLE

[TtTOtW]

Smart thinking @Altaïr

 

[SupremeDorian]

Personally I set the orbit at 300m - 5500m, so that I could avoid the no time-warp zone for docking. Going below that would make things much longer, but not that much difficult.
Well, unless you have a third object to which you can switch so that you can still time-warp

You could also fix this by changing the time warp height on the moon in the planet editor.

 

[Altaïr]

You could also fix this by changing the time warp height on the moon in the planet editor.

Hey, nice idea! But I think it's better not to change it to less than 300 meters, because collisions are disabled during time-warp, so it could lead to strange situations

 

[FootyBoi]

I've gotcha fam

 

[Horus Lupercal]

Supersonic docking maneuvers at sub 260/260m lunar orbit

 

[SupremeDorian]

Supersonic docking maneuvers at sub 260/260m lunar orbit

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How exactly does one go supersonic in a vacuum?

 

[Horus Lupercal]

How exactly does one go supersonic in a vacuum?

Scream really loudly.

Or get Michael Bay to direct the movie.

 

[SupremeDorian]

How exactly does one go supersonic in a vacuum?

My brother has just informed me that it is technically possible

 

[TtTOtW]

But how efficient is the transmission of sound? As in, how loud and how close to you does it need to be for you to hear it?

 

[SupremeDorian]

But how efficient is the transmission of sound? As in, how loud and how close to you does it need to be for you to hear it?

 

[SPQRALAN]

I set my karman line to be 100km and I only have free version. I'm sure this will impress you.

 

[Horus Lupercal]

My brother has just informed me that it is technically possible
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I thought it worked the otherway around? The denser the medium, the faster the transmission of sound, thus the faster the speed of sound. Sound is faster underwater than in atmosphere and slower than through a solid object.

And Saturn Vs top speed is over 10,000m/s...

 

[TtTOtW]

10000km/s??? Not m/s?

 

[Horus Lupercal]

10000km/s??? Not m/s?

Yeah, good spot. It's 40,000km/h and got the units mixed

 

[SupremeDorian]

I thought it worked the otherway around? The denser the medium, the faster the transmission of sound, thus the faster the speed of sound. Sound is faster underwater than in atmosphere and slower than through a solid object.

And Saturn Vs top speed is over 10,000m/s...

 

[Horus Lupercal]

***Emergency Burst Transmission on GUARD***

This is the GNSP lifeboat Halcyon. We have had to eject after an uncontrolled fire in the engine decks of our ship. We are currently in Low Lunar Orbit without propulsion or landing equipment and require immediate recovery!

I repeat, this is the Halcyon! Is anyone getting this? Sending co-ordinates blind in the hope anyone receives this. Local topographical data doesn't look good at this altitude!​

As the rules state, insane difficulty = quarter build screen, with the capsule at sub 300m orbit. To make things extra spicy, I've built it base game compliant (I think) and the capsule is sub 260m.

Here's the L/V, Pacman.

3 stages, 2 stages to (bang on) LEO, the 3rd for TLI, rescue, recovery and return to Earth.

Features the new Mk.1 'NOMNOMNOM' capsule recovery system. Inside is a comms satellite, that'll sit at 5,000m+ and allow me to switch to it when wanting to timewarp 70m above the ground provide essential communications during the mission.

Anyway, launch...

And maketh the orbit.

Like I said, bang on. The 'out of fuel' and 'reached LEO' notifications came pretty much simultaneously.

An uneventful TLI and down to 8 an half thousand metres so I can deploy the timewarp device commsat

And this is where shit got real...

But once that'd been sorted, its a simple climbout and back to Earth. Didn't bother messing with aerobraking or an orbit and slow descent.

Nah, burn from LLO to launchpad, straight line and pray we slow down in time...

Oh, that's what the parachutes and extra fuel was for.

Mission complete.