The biggest disaster you have caused in Orbiter

[Loru]

Not very big but quite stupid:
1.) During MTKS-SAT deployment in Mars orbit I forgot EVA spacialist and returned to Earth leaving him near the satelite.
2.) Landing Apollo Capsule in Himalay Mountains.

 

[Blacklight]

1.) During MTKS-SAT deployment in Mars orbit I forgot EVA spacialist and returned to Earth leaving him near the satelite.

http://www.twistedmojo.com/la.html
:rofl::rofl::rofl:

 

[willy88]

Being a n00b with IMFD and sending a crew of over a dozen towards a slow, cold death.

 

[dansteph]

During my first earth->jupiter trip I docked a DGIV-2 (with a 15 day o2 setting) to Arrow Freighter and forgot to transfer the crew to the Arrow .

2 years later

"smelly mummy smeeeelly mummy... it's not your fault !"

Dan

 

[PaulG]

AHH!! This is the post I wanted to show this

Ultimate Destruction of the Arrow et al.

Prestep - Have DGIV debris on max
Step 1, Close everything on the arrow
Step 2, dock the DGIV
Step 3, open the DGIV inner and outer hatches
Step 4, deorbit the Arrow (just keep full thrust retrograde)
Step 5, wait until the Arrow is about 50km altitude, and dropping like a brick
Step 6, Open the arrow bay hatch
Step 7, Watch the fireworks:

 

[ex-orbinaut]

This post is inspired by another thread that was nerco'd today about planets that you've visited, but I thought I would post it here a). because this isn't a necro'd thread and b). because in reality this would have been a disaster.

During some testing of a vessel I am working on, I used it to take the stock Atlantis to Mars and released it in orbit, then proceeded to do an atmospheric entry with the shuttle. The larger part of the entry was carried out at between 5 to 1 km altitude. Finally, with a TAS of 470 m/s, the handling of the shuttle had become very sluggish and I figured it was not going to hold off much longer, so I plonked it down on the surface of Mars with just over 400 m/s TAS, and applied the brakes, which groaned like a sick whale for over two minutes, assisted by retro linear RCS, before it came to a stop. IMHO, not survivable; even if the gear and tires had withstood the touchdown at that velocity, the brakes would long have exploded. Never measured the landing roll, BTW!:lol:

 

[triplepogi2009]

The most disastrous thing I did... hmm...
Lemme guess, I hit 4000 buildings in my metro manila base using a Deltaglider (the default one). In Orbiter, I just passed through them, but in real life...
Ouch. That's gonna hurt.
I also did the same thing with:
An F-22
An XR2
An F-15
and...
A DeltagliderIV
Only, in the DGIV, right after I hit the buildings...
I went out of control... and CRASHED!!!!

 

[Arrowstar]

Today I setup an Earth-Jupiter flight plan in TransX (pics are over at the screenshot thread!) and let it go. After a few course corrections, I found I was right on target... into the center of Jupiter. By the time I realized, there was nothing I could do. My DGIV smashed into Jupiter at 5-6 km/s and vaporized instantly. Everyone on board perished before they knew what was happening.

Thank goodness for Auto-save Module!

 

[earthorbit]

Hmmm... the biggest Desaster...
Once i was trying to launch a DGIV backwards. I attached some Velcros at the front side.
The first 100 m it was going perfect, but then i realized that my back is a little warm (800°). After that, i had a CTD.

 

[Ark]

Does pinpoint nuclear bombardment from orbit onto populated lunar settlements count?

 

[T.Neo]

'Nuff said.

 

[Foofoo14]

Messing with the cfg files?

 

[Thunder Chicken]

I was messing with config files once and located my DGIV 300 km above KSC - but stationary relative to the Sun. It's hard to describe, but it was fascinating watching the DGIV being run down by the Earth moving at 30 km/s in solar orbit. *BLAMMO!*

 

[ghostrunner01]

MUST SEE

This just happened!!!!

http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?p=150626#post150626:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

Yep. Now saturn looks like this. Sad day at Saturn.

 

[Blacklight]

Yep. Now saturn looks like this. Sad day at Saturn. Attached Thumbnails

YOU BROKE SATURN !!! :lol:

 

[T.Neo]

Wow, a distorted picture of Saturn. :lol:

Btw, in the "'Nuff said" screenshot, that's all the planets in the solar system at 1 AU, on top of eachother. All major bodies in the solar system, and their moons, destroyed...

Crashing the Moon into Earth was a bit of a let down for me, after that.

 

[Izack]

I gave a spacecraft a name with a space in it.

Aha!! THAT'S what I've been doing wrong!!
But I'd have to say that my worst disaster was docking the DGIV to the ISS after a short warp flight from Io and then accidentally re-engaging the warp drive...WHILE POINTING AT THE PLANET.

Lots of accidental Mir de-orbits and Apollo -miscalculations- too. Oh, and getting frustrated with my Nova rocket and launching the Orion under it's own [explosive] power. Greenpeace will be after me for that...at least they would be, if I hadn't blown the ISS through the Earth at 1.5c.

Orbiter is a baaad universe to live in when I log on.

 

[vonneuman]

On my first Mars mission I launched a day before my launch window. I missed Mars. My crew spent over a year in a DGIV before they ran out of air.

 

[Foofoo14]

We only wanted to create the ultimate security guard

 

[Blacklight]

Don't fly too close to him ! He may pop and deflate ! :lol: