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Nice, took me 3 tries. Although I believe the real thing will be quite different. There will be coupling betweeen various controls. I think it's one of the goa
by fctorial 6y ago
Nice, took me 3 tries.
Although I believe the real thing will be quite different. There will be coupling betweeen various controls. I think it's one of the goals to reduce that by centering thrusters around centres of mass, but there's a lot of moving pieces (humans) inside, and the fuel mass is always changing.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoYup. That's the kind of fun you can experience in Kerbal Space Program. If you just want to fly around teakettle, then you can get away with clever design that ensures the center of mass doesn't shift as you expend RCS fuel. But as soon as you're trying to do anything interesting - e.g. build a lander, or a craft that hauls other crafts around your station - you'll experience coupled controls in full. I for one love building space stations in KSP, and I tend to have a compliment of "worker bees" - small RCS-only crafts meant to haul big pieces of space stations to their correct positions. So I often attach sideways to a fuel tank that's 2/3 empty and still weighs 10x as much as the worker bee. Docking that thing is an exercise in patience.