I like to think im pretty good at making rockets, other than the fact that i suck at using early game parts. I always get stuck at the first part of career cause i cant make it to orbit with those early game parts. Any ideas?

The rocks and the stuff on the grass

Hello fellow kerbonauts!

I was using the excellent Resonant Orbit Calculator to launch a 5 satellite network.

The results being in hours, I made a little time converter for KSP. You can enter whichever time you want and it displays the time in a correct format.

There it is, I hope some of you will find it useful!

KSP Time Converter

Voilà!

I entered 200km for Apo and Peri and the preview is giving me this??? If I set a higher apoapsis, it's lowering the predicted apoapsis??

I have SOL and RP-1

I found a 138 billion ton asteriod on a crash course for RSS Earth

Wondering how U.S. Space Force would brand it's Spacecraft.

We need to know more.

Wow! I just passed 3,000 hours in Kerbal logged by Steam! That is equivalent to playing nonstop for 125 days, or about 8 hours a day for an entire year! And this doesn't even include time launched via CKAN nor my old KSP install I got outside of Steam!

I think I got this install in... I want to say 2022? It is now starting to dawn on me that the pandemic was not two years ago and that I am an adult now. Ow.

Here is to the next 3,000 hours!

Yeah I don't know what else to say. Game works fine otherwise, rendered when on Kerbin aswell.

I hope you guys like it, its quite old, and this is the only picture i have but it also has the inflatable cushions and custom heatshield

This is my first time attempting a rendezvous and docking outside of the tutorial mission. I'm using the C-100 androgynous docking port on both connections with both ends extended, but I'm not getting a solid connection. The attempt looks rough, but I tried a few times before letting MechJeb have a go, and I still never got it to connect. Any advice?

He did it

wont return anytime soon though

(there is technically a heatshield on there but it can't even survive kerbin reentry at 4000m/s so idk how the fuck i lived)

Hey, I decided I wanted to finally try KSP after all this time. I watched quite some content on social media, and it looks quite cool, though I feel really overwhelmed by the complexity of the game and what more experienced players do/understand. I am definitely not complaining though, I was hoping for some sort of realism. I came to this subreddit looking for explanations and, I guess some sort of basic guide on these features. Things like what is ∆v and how to use it ( I saw this popping up everywhere but I have no idea what it is ), how to actually make functional spaceships/rockets for going to other celestial bodies (what techniques to use, meta, etc...), tips for increased realism and fun, mods, etc... I am looking forward to playing the game so hopefully I can get some useful answers.

As we have seen this past week the forums went down again and we have literally no idea how long they will be kept up, with 10+ years of knowledge and discussions its important to save these things for those who wish to get into the modding scene especially with how many people are playing kerbal again.

Thankfully there is a community project to backup the forums here https://github.com/net-lisias-ksp/KSP-Forum-Preservation-Project

I would also like to point to this thread by ColdJ who is very responsive and incredibly helpful in the blender workflow using the MU plugin and has been a huge help for me as i get back into modding so i can finish Kermits statics pack for Kerbal Colonies: https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/topic/226693-using-the-mu-plugin-in-blender-to-make-parts/

And if you want modding resources the modding bible is a huge help https://github.com/the-dev-hole/the_ksp_1_modding_bible

a shameless plug for EJ_SA who is making his own GSE parts right now and making a working bridge crane for SLC 6 and his Collins shuttle https://youtube.com/@ejsa1?si=aG9CL43CvUlephAs

If you want to jump into making basic parts the best time is now because KSP is back baby!

It's like throwing a hotdog down a hallway.

4 months ago, on April 1, Artemis II mission was launched, which brought online player count to historical record high of 23000 concurrent players. However since the peak, player count has been on a steady decline, reaching 4800 players today, which is close to ~4000 players baseline before the launch. What do you guys think of this trend?

not mine... but credit to whoever made this