KSP/SFS

KSP/SpaceFlight Simulator

Kerbol - Sun

Moho - Mercury

Eve - Venus

Kerbin - Earth

Mun - Big moon orbiting earth

Minmus - Smallest moon orbiting Kerbin

Duna - Mars

Dres - Ceres

Jool - Jupiter

Eeloo - Pluto

What’s WASDQE

W- Pitch Up

S- Pitch Down

A- Yaw Left

D- Yaw Right

Q- Roll Anticlockwise

E-Roll Clockwise

Other systems:

B- BCS (Reaction Control System- Translate and Rotate your vessel)

T- SAS (Stability assist System- Stabilise and Rotate your vessel to specific orientation)

D- Lights (Toggle All)

Other important Keys:

Spacebar - Stage

F5 - Quicksave

F9 - Load Quicksave

Up/down/left/right arrow keys - change viewing angle

Left Shift - Increase throttle

Left Control - Decrease Throttle

Caps Lock - Fine Control

C - Change View

V - Change Camera Mode

H - Move Forward (RCS)

N - Move Backward (RCS)

I - Move Down (RCS)

K - Move Up (RCS)

J - Move Left (RCS)

L - Move Right (RCS)

X - Cut throttle

Z - Full throttle

G - Landing Gear

B - Brakes (Mostly for Planes)

M - Orbital Map

(0-9) - Activate Custom Action Group

Backspace - Abort

Construction:

Liquid Fuel Engines - Uses Liquid Fuel tanks w/02

Solid Fuel Engines - Come with their solid tanks

Monopropellant Engines - either RCS or Puff Engine

Ion Thrusters - Uses Zeon

Jet Engines - Liquid Fuel + Air

Propellers - Using DLC Robotic Parts

Fuel Different Engine Types:

Liquid Fuel - Something like RP-1

Rocket Fuel - RP-1 + L02

Monopropellant Fuel - Hydrazine + Alumina

Zeon fuel - Zeon Liquid/Gas

Batteries - Lithium-Ion

Control Pod Types:

Crew pods - similar to the crew pad of crew dragon

Control Boxes - Practically a crew but you constantly need electricity and connection to the earth

Physics Time!:

Why does the rocket lift off?

The rocket lifts off due to something called newton’s third law. To summarise, “Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.”

How to get into orbit:

Depending on the rockets’ TWR the time where we start to do the gravity turn changes. A gravity turn is decreasing the pitch of the rocket to more efficiently get into orbit.

Coming Back to Earth:

Landing Safely

Parachutes - Works well as long as the payload is small and if there is an atmosphere

Burning Back - Works well in all conditions as long as there is fuel and you know what you are doing

How to Land

Just fire your rocket engine retrograde and make sure your speed relative to the ground on touchdown is <7m/s or else your rocket will explode.

Reflection:

In today's lesson, we learnt about KSP and SFS, presented by seniors and we got the chance to play SFS and complete tasks. This was fun and engaging where we learnt how to apply physics we learnt in astronomy to be applied in a game to help us get to experience, further improve and understand these things we learnt. Learn --> Understand --> Apply --> Reflect --> Remember --> Repeat. The presenter did a good job helping us understand, he showed us his passion and his co-presenters helped out as much as they could whenever they could. They were friendly and repeated multiple times to help us understand. They also used models and drew to help us understand the processes.