Kerbal Definition and 12 Threads

Just FYI to anyone who is interested or has a friend or relative who might be interested, Kerbal Space Program is free on the Epic Games store right now through January 12th at 10AM (don't know the time zone). Kerbal Space Program is THE game if you are interested in rocketry, realistic space...

Firstly, apologies if this is in the wrong thread. I'm currently writing a presentation on the physics of getting a spacecraft from Earth to Mars in the near future. In my research I've come up against Porkchop plots which seem to plot contours of equal characteristic energy so you can find...

"How hard can rocket science be anyway?" Kerbal Space Program is a sandbox type computer game that leans heavily on concepts of physics (don't let that scare you though, you don't need a calculator nor a book of equations to play it. It's ultimately very intuitive). Given the physics nature of...

... Continued from part 14. [SIZE="6"]The Sands of Duna [SIZE="5"]Part 15: Coming in fast [SIZE="1"]Collinsmark is not affiliated with Squad nor Kerbal Space Program We are coming in fast. Really, really fast. Might was well fold up the solar arrays. There's areobraking in the...

[SIZE="6"]The Sands of Duna [SIZE="5"]<Intermission (1/2)> An intermission of math. Skip this post (and the next) if you are not interested in the math. But since you are reading this on Physics Forums after all, there's a good chance you are interested. If so, read on. :smile...

... Continued from Part 4. [SIZE="6"]The Sands of Duna [SIZE="5"]Part 5: On your mark, get set, ... Now that we're in a low, roughly circular, Kerbin orbit, we need to find the position within that orbit that we will choose for are upcoming periapsis. We need to find the place in that...

... Continued from part 3. The Sands of Duna Part 4: We have ignition The author of this post (and story), collinsmark, is not affiliated with Squad nor Kerbal Space Program. We've waited long enough. So let's get this ship out the launch pad. Kerbals chosen for this mission are Melmon...

[SIZE="6"]The Sands of Duna [SIZE="5"]Part 1: Introduction So let's go to Duna! (Duna is Kerbal Space Program's [KSP's] analogue of Mars.) Here are some mission requirements that I set out for myself: [SIZE="4"]Mission requirements: Bring two or three Kerbals to the surface of Duna...

... Continued from part fifteen. [SIZE="6"]To the Mun! [SIZE="5"]Part sixteen: Home, sweet home [Figure 234: Service module separation (1/2)] [Figure 235: Service module separation (2/2)] [Figure 236: Reentry (1/2)] [Figure 237: Reentry (2/2)] [Figure 238]...

The Little Rocket That Could [Figure 1. Check this out.] This post illustrates an example of KSP rocket design. The following are the rocket's design goals: Get three kerbals and a bunch of science items to the Mun, in an Apollo style mission: such that two kerbals (and science) land on the...

Efficient launch into orbit. Designing a small, simple, efficient and stable launch vehicle to get into Kerbin's orbit can be done pretty easily. But in order to avoid building oversized, overcomplicated, drag prone behemoths (like the one I was using in the first post of this thread), one...

Hey all, I just searched the forum for discussions about this game but, apart from one of the developers asking a question about astrophysics, I found nothing. In case folks don't know... there exists a wonderful game/simulator called "Kerbal Space Program" developed by a group called "Squad."...