It does the majority of the landings, returning the science data. The primary mode of operation with this type of station is the umanned lander. “Another successful landing.” – Jebadiah Kerman It remains docked and acts as a depository for all science data from experiments, crew EVAs and reports, and surface samples. It also brings more fuel than is necessary for its trip to and from the Mun. It is the primary source of provisions, mostly food, which cannot be regenerated. This command module has been designated as a rescue command module that would be used in the event of a failure resulting in a crew being unable to return to Kerbin.Ĭommand Capsule – This is the capsule that delivers the crew to the station from Kerbin. It also has two external command seats that give it rescue capability. (The new version will be even lighter than the version I was using this past weekend during the next mission rotation.) This lander has all of the science experiments onboard and is solar powered. Unmanned Munar Lander – Much like the manned munar lander, the unmanned variant is designed to be as light weight as possible. The unmanned munar lander Mk3 fitted atop the Taurus launch platform that will take it to the munar station before the commencement of the third mission rotation.Delivered by a probe-controlled launch vehicle with no crew onboard the lander. It is solar powered and has provisions for 11 days, should the sole crew member become stuck. The experiments onboard are essentially the crew himself – gathering surface samples and crew reports. Manned Munar Lander – Due to weight restrictions in an effort to increase the amount of Delta-V available for polar landings, the manned munar lander has the Mk1 Lander Can, which only allows for a single crew and no experiments. The Manned Munar Lander Mk3 during the final stages of construction.It also has a large capacity for fuel storage – both RCS and rocket fuel. The station also has two XL solar panels that provide the primary source of electricity for the station and all attached modules. The station itself – Consists of a science lab, three docking ports and because I use the Thunder Aerospace Corporation Life Support Mod, capacity for life support provisions (food, water, oxygen) and the ability to regenerate carbon dioxide and waste water back into usable oxygen and water respectively. The station design as of the publication of this article.The station mission consists of four moving parts that are all launched separately. This obviously gives me several advantages. The station uses the new science lab that allows all experiments that are one-time-use to be cleaned so they can be run again. If you watched my stream at all during this past weekend, you'll have seen that I spent a lot of time working on and around a space station orbiting the Mun. That second mechanic is what I've been leveraging a lot in my space craft designs. Science experiment data now needs to be returned back to Kerbin for any further gains, whether by a direct return or by a Kerbal gathering the data from the experiment, loading it into a capsule and returning it. There is only so much science that can be gained by transmitting the data back to Kerbin and some experiments are a one-time run, meaning that they can only run the experiment once and can either transmit once or keep the data – if they transmit, they cannot be run again. When science was released, it was fairly simple: Attach science experiments to your space craft, go somewhere you haven't been before, run the science experiments, transmit the data and repeat until no more science value can be gained.īut now in KSP 0.23 players can no longer spam science until there is no return. Things like probes with a return mission from far away planets or difficult planets such as eve that I would have otherwise never have bothered with.
Instead of just challenging myself to push the envelope of rocket and space craft design, I can now challenge myself to build space craft that meet certain criteria in order to meet the requirement of gathering science in kerbal space program in order to develop my available technology tree further. Science and career mode was a huge addition to Kerbal space Program.
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