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- # Vehicle assembly
- 1. Install MapSat GPS radio
- 2. Verify sufficient power for electric rover (solar panel or RTG that doesn't fall off in dynamic environments)
- 3. Does gear touch the ground when extended?
- 4. Did you pack enough delta-v? (No.)
- 5. Are you planning on returning?
- 6. Is your shit manned or did that little probe body ruin the day?
- 7. How many crew do you want?
- 8. Did you remember ASAS and SAS?
- 9. Is RCS needed?
- 10. Check yo stagin'
- 11. Are you packing parachutes? Do you need to repack them?
- 12. Does the craft need an illumination? For docking? Looking downward for landing? For EVA to be able to find the hatch?
- 13. Adding an antenna on one side of a docking port can help you orient while docking; put one on both spacecraft
- # Designing a space station
- 1. How many crew do you want?
- 2. Can everyone onboard get home if the station has a problem?
- 3. Science modules?
- 4. Food, bathroom, clothes, cupola?
- 5. EVA airlock module?
- 6. Robotic arm(s), are there mods yet for this?
- 7. Radiators?
- 8. Computers? ASAS, SAS (reaction wheels)
- 9. Heating/cooling/CO2 scrubbers (Kerbal resources mods can help here)
- 10. RCS? Ion? ISS has to repeatedly boost its altitude over time
- 11. Lights? Are docking spacecraft well-lit? Is the station well-lit for glamour shots?
- 12. Do the solar panels and batteries provide sufficient power?
- 13. Docking ports: are they positioned with enough clearance for docking spacecraft? Can the station be extended beyond its design?
- 14. BOSS? ISA MapSat or GSP?
- # Launch
- 1. Did you test your lander on the launchpad first?
- 2. Did you time accelerate until the correct phase angle (and leave enough time for docking if applicable)?
- 3. Is there wobble? Back to the VAB to stiffen the launch vehicle, struts or redesign.
- 4. Look up the inclination of the body you intend to visit and calculate your launch heading
- 5. Lock gimbals on non-core engines
- # Docking
- 1. Control from here on the part oriented correctly towards the target
- 2. Set the other spacecraft as the target
- 3. Orient both spacecraft normal and anti-normal respectively to null out the rotation of the body you're orbiting
- 4. Determine if you're going to be docking in the dark and whether or not you have lights and the battry power required
- 5. Remember to roll your spacecraft so RCS thrusters fire as you'd expect
- 6. Set the individual docking port as target once it's visible
- 7. Disable SAS on contact to let the attraction pull both spacecraft into the same orientation
- # Satellites, probes, and mapping
- 1. Polar orbits allow one probe to map an entire body
- 2. Elliptic orbits allow extended time over a particular feature on the surface
- # Orbiting
- # Transfer manuevers
- # Landing
- 1. Is the surface even?
- 2. Is it going to be properly illuminated?
- 3. Is there going to be any bodies visible from the landing site? Do you want there to be? Tidal lock?
- 4. Did you read the kspwiki article on your target and its atmospheric data, etc.?
- 5. Check yo stagin'
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