Altaïr
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I was probably really tired...
Actually I never did this but that's the dumbest thing I could imagine.
Otherwise one of my biggest fail was a Moon mission (Apollo style). Everything went well until reentry. My capsule was about to touchdown and... The stage I jettisoned before reentry fell on it and destroyed it. It's one small fail for a man...
I also had some hilarating crashes while I was attempting some crazy gravity assists.
Actually I never did this but that's the dumbest thing I could imagine.
Otherwise one of my biggest fail was a Moon mission (Apollo style). Everything went well until reentry. My capsule was about to touchdown and... The stage I jettisoned before reentry fell on it and destroyed it. It's one small fail for a man...
I also had some hilarating crashes while I was attempting some crazy gravity assists.
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Ha, remember when parachutes 'worked' on the moon?
If you haven't spanked into a planet/moon at ludicrous speeds doing gravity assists then they're not being done right.
I think there's a whole thread somewhere dedicated to me failing one thing or another. My most popular video is one of my dropships spazzing out and snapping into 3 pieces during a drop
If you haven't spanked into a planet/moon at ludicrous speeds doing gravity assists then they're not being done right.
I think there's a whole thread somewhere dedicated to me failing one thing or another. My most popular video is one of my dropships spazzing out and snapping into 3 pieces during a drop
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Ah, I don't remember about the chutes on the Moon... It still works on Europa though.
I completely agree about the gravity assist. The perfect gravity assist is when you lightly scratches the paint of your ship during your fly-by.
Speaking about that, I remember doing a close fly-by with a ship that had solar panels deployed. The panel below hit the ground and got destroyed, while the rest of the ship continued on its way spinning at crazy speed. That was just a little too close
I completely agree about the gravity assist. The perfect gravity assist is when you lightly scratches the paint of your ship during your fly-by.
Speaking about that, I remember doing a close fly-by with a ship that had solar panels deployed. The panel below hit the ground and got destroyed, while the rest of the ship continued on its way spinning at crazy speed. That was just a little too close
During my Constellation Saturn mission, I forgot to park the mothership in an orbit away from other moon encounters. So at the end of the mission I tried to find the ship, but its gone.
Turns out it crashed into Enceladus after 5 minutes of furious searching through all my save files. Had to do all the moon landings again.
Turns out it crashed into Enceladus after 5 minutes of furious searching through all my save files. Had to do all the moon landings again.
This is better off than my first gas giant mission, during my mission to Jupiter I had the same problem. The mothership slingshot past every single moon encounter, miraculously not crashing into any of them, and got yeeted out Jupiter's SOI. Its no problem cuz I can just fire some thrusters to get the ship back into Jupiter encounter, so i didn't learn my lesson the first time.
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Docking ports. Back before the days of drop pods, I used to use ridiculously complex garages. I've still got entire 2000t expeditions in orbit of planets because I can't assemble the landing equipment.
Same. Second time I went to Jupiter in an attempt to create a permanent base in Ganymede orbit. I'd barely got the first attempt in position, and the second and third, much more ambitious ones, were coming simultaneously.
The second contained the entire space station in flat pack, the third was 2x 600t fuel tanks, being pushed by the 'Flying Croissant' SDU. The station arrived fine after a very conventional direct burn. The second, I tried being cool and doing ping-pong gravity assists (not VEEGA) and ended up in an anti-clockwise orbit around Ganymede thinking 'how the fuck am I supposed to dock now' as they tore past each other at 2,000m/s relative.
I ended up burning the entire fuel supply of the SDU (a mean feat considering it's powered by ions and carries a few hundred tons of fuel) reversing the orbit, docking and then using the newly arrived fuel tanks to re-fuel the SDU that had just delivered them so it could get back the Earth orbit.
Same. Second time I went to Jupiter in an attempt to create a permanent base in Ganymede orbit. I'd barely got the first attempt in position, and the second and third, much more ambitious ones, were coming simultaneously.
The second contained the entire space station in flat pack, the third was 2x 600t fuel tanks, being pushed by the 'Flying Croissant' SDU. The station arrived fine after a very conventional direct burn. The second, I tried being cool and doing ping-pong gravity assists (not VEEGA) and ended up in an anti-clockwise orbit around Ganymede thinking 'how the fuck am I supposed to dock now' as they tore past each other at 2,000m/s relative.
I ended up burning the entire fuel supply of the SDU (a mean feat considering it's powered by ions and carries a few hundred tons of fuel) reversing the orbit, docking and then using the newly arrived fuel tanks to re-fuel the SDU that had just delivered them so it could get back the Earth orbit.
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