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Team Name: Ornefler LLP Members: Dan, Jesse, Leighton Starting Funds: $30,000 Notes: You are a small high-tech firm specializing in integration of varied technologies for military purposes. CEO Jesse Lefler started the firm as an offshoot of a personal research firm, taking the business private as he focused on high-efficiency rocket engines for national defense purposes. Shortly thereafter, military regulations required significant robustness improvements in all their products. Lefler then hired Ornelas to apply his groundbreaking engineering skills to improvi
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Team Name: ZZ Smith Research Members: ZZ, Ethan Starting Funds: $60,000 Notes: ZZ Smith Research is a research firm trying to make the leap from theoretical and laboratory work to practical space exploration. Having lined up the backing of financier and ESPN World Series of Poker champion Ethan, the team utilizes a community of leaders to determine their direction, represented by globe-trotting actor/singer ZZ, inventor of the left-handed Kerbalshifter and the nuclear engine.
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Team Name: Channarney Inc. Members: Nate, Trevor, Anna Starting Funds: $30,000 Notes: You are a small start-up business focusing on the creative and artistic vision of space travel. Funded by international soccer star Nate “The Great” Charles, the team is focused on not only achieving greatness, but bringing the public along for the ride through Carney’s narrative vision and Weldy’s creative scientific genius. Public anticipation for their APlusPhysics-exclusive narrative is already high, even prior to their initial rocket launch! Due to Weldy’s pre-
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Team Name: Vargard Conglomerates Members: Cristian, Zach L Starting Funds: $100,000 Notes: Financed by interworld day trading superstar Vargas, Vanrgard Conglomerates is Vargas’s attempt to “give back” to the planet that has given him so much, and if he just happens to make a financial killing in the process, who is he to blame? Immediately following the signing of Vargard’s papers of incorporation, Vanguard hired his old high school classmate, Zach Lessard, to head the firm’s day-to-day operations. Lessard’s penchant for getting the job done, regardless of detai
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Team Name: Arabian Knights Members: Kate, Sarah, TJ Starting Funds: $200,000 Notes: Arabian Knights is the brainchild of equestrian breeder and animal magnate Kate, who made her fortune by purchasing a very small town in upstate New York, renaming it Arabian, breeding horses, and selling her “authentic, genuine Arabian horses” for exorbitant sums. Following a 60 Minutes documentary coupled with an IRS investigation, Huppe became extremely motivated to master space travel. Coupled with her high school friend Rossi, who manages the day-to-day operations
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Team Name: Dyrleo Enterprises Members: Josh Dyrland, Olivia Puleo Starting Funds: $100,000 Notes: Financed by interworld track superstar Dyrland, Dyrleo Enterprises is Dyrland’s attempt to “give back” to the planet that has given him so much, and if he just happens to make a financial killing in the process, who is he to blame? Immediately following the signing of Dyrleo’s papers of incorporation, Dyrland hired his old high school classmate, Olivia Puleo, to head the firm’s day-to-day operations. Puleo’s penchant for getting the job done, regardless of details such as legality and f
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Team Name: Big & Low LLP Members: Jacob Bigenwald, Matthew Bartlow Starting Funds: $30,000 Notes: You are a small high-tech firm specializing in integration of varied technologies for military purposes. CEO Matt Bartlow started the firm as an offshoot of a personal research firm, taking the business private as he focused on high-efficiency rocket engines for national defense purposes. Shortly thereafter, military regulations required significant robustness improvements in all their products. Bartlow then hired Bigenwald to apply his groundbreaking engineering skills to improvin
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Team Name: Garalles Conglomerates Members: Gareth Daunton, Clayton Kralles Starting Funds: $70,000 Notes: You represent a large conglomerate of varied high tech industrial firms who have come together in an effort to sweep in and take over the Kerbal space industry. Software tycoon Daunton and hired music video mogul Kralles fresh off a multi-year humanitarian effort to head the conglomerate as CEO, hoping his strong social and relationship skills would help temper the money-thirsty greed of the conglomerate’s financial backers in an effort to safely and efficiently monopolize the ma
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Team Name: Rivoralsh Research Members: Tim Walsh, Daniel Rivas, Pavel Rozvora Starting Funds: $60,000 Notes: Rivoralsh Research is a research firm trying to make the leap from theoretical and laboratory work to practical space exploration. Having lined up the backing of financier and ESPN World Series of Poker champion Pavel Rozvora, the team utilizes a community of leaders to determine their direction, represented by globe-trotting actor/singer Walsh and the lesser known but no less effective Dr. Daniel Rivas, inventor of the left-handed Kerbalshifter and the nuclear engine. Due to
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Team Name: Axburns Inc. Members: Katelyn Axman, Bobby Burns Starting Funds: $30,000 Notes: You are a small start-up business focusing on the creative and artistic vision of space travel. Funded by international corporate mogul Katelyn Axman and science innovator and constant czar Bobby Burns, the team is focused on not only achieving greatness, but bringing the public along for the ride through Axman’s engaging and dramatic narrative style as mission reports are compiled into dramatic short stories / serial narratives which provide a significant boost to the start-up’s income and fun
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See... docking isn't so hard. Alpha Station is complete. Note that the cargo bay, and buran arms are two mods. Everything else is stock. Now to the semi tutorial: To make docking easier for yourself, always double check where the centre of mass is on your docking craft/payload. place rcs thrusters in equal lengths from it (roughly) just remember that your centre of mass will shift as you use fuel. Try to place your rcs in symetrical sets of 4. if your payload requires more than one rcs block per side to maintain its balance be sure to add the same amount of rcs to the b
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Now, this took some research, some planning, and a number of tries, but matching up orbits for docking IS possible… But certainly not easy. Took a bit of practice (and perhaps a minor bounce off the station…) But in the end, the Kerbals prevailed. Once docked, a fuel transfer was initiated to verify the process. After that, it was party time. The Kerbal who’d been manning the space station decided he needed to get out after going a bit stir crazy. Time to ride the rocket for a spell. This, of course, left the space station unmanned, so one of our newly arrived Kerbonauts
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Just to show you it's possible, I thought I'd attach my "Mun Lander" mission. Having succeeded here, I've since gone back and thought a bit harder about efficiency, done a few calculations, etc., and certainly would not do this "the same way" again, but even with the BFFI (i.e. brute force) method of space travel, it's pretty straightforward to land on Mun or Minmus and come back safely again. Next up on my to-do list -- a space station/refueling port (with some docking practice) and sending a probe to orbit another planet! (Moral of the Story -- don't led the mean, nasty, scary,
