As I mentioned before if you do not have a basic understanding of the generally accepted model even in the base game you will not make it to orbit unless you happen to get lucky.
Hm, the topic is my Challenge about masses and fuel consumption of spacecrafts with humans aboard. I know I can send a satellite (without humans) into orbit, etc, etc.
BTW - I live, asocially, in a rather luxurious 6 rooms appartment with a nice roof garden and balcony overlooking the Mediterranean sea with a 1100 m tall mountain in the back sometimes covered in snow in the winter. I am the owner of it. Only the appartment. The mountain belongs to the French army that once had a fortress on the top ... now abandoned. And I am not the owner of the Mediterranean sea. I just see it. You understand?
It is correct that I consider all atomic bombs non-working (and other nuclear weapon pretty useless) while being a supporter of civilian, nuclear energy/electricity/power generation. Like all French I am anti-American. One reason is that Americans believe that structures just suddenly collapse from top down - small, weak top crushing big, strong bottom ... all the fault of some Arabs. Such Americans are really ignorant, stupid fools that I generally just laugh at. Imagine all the POTUS believing in such nonsense.
I have done military service in the Navy ... just like six POTUS! Imagine that! But I was really involved - not having a vaccation in the South Pacific away from the eyes of media.
While not a perfect simulation it does an adequate job at getting the basics right.
That is why my recreation of the Apollo missions used almost the same amount of delta-v claimed by NASA and others sources say it takes to get to the moon and back.
You are showing your lack of understanding again since it seems you do not know to calculate delta-v you need to know masses and the amount and type of propellant.
Delta-v is what determines where a spacecraft can go and it does not matter if the payload includes people are not. It tells you the total velocity change that a rocket can achieve.
Getting places in space is just changing velocity. That is why one of the most important and most used equations is Tsiolkovsky's.
To win my Challenge (topic) you must describe perfectly human space trips to (1) the Moon and (2) Mars, incl. the mass (kg) of the spacecraft and fuel (kg) used at various stages during the trips. Don't tell me that I can do it myself. I can't!
I know of course that you must apply forces (N) during times (seconds) to the spacecraft to (1) leave Earth, (2) to land on the Moon and Mars, (3) leave the Moon and Mars and (4) finally re-enter and land on Earth.
The Challenge is to calculate the fuel (kg) to create the forces. Should be easy?
I am 100% certain NASA and ESA cannot do it.
Why?
I have asked them!
And they didn't reply.
Even if I offered €1M for it.
Then I extended my generous offer/Challenge to the public. Topic!
And there we are today.
One applicant presented a spacecraft with mass >300 000 kg orbiting Earth prior departure. Most of it was fuel just to get started on the trip away from Earth gravity.
The spacecraft looked spartan. No beds. No nothing. Looked like the inside of a tent. His spacecraft needed >250 000 kg fuel just to leave Earth orbit.
I asked how he got his >300 000 kg spacecraft + fuel into orbit. He said he used some superstrong rocket, blah, blah.
Today it seems most spacecrafts are satellites with mass ~3 000 kg and they are just sent into orbits around Earth. They are just 100 times smaller than my applicant's spartan spacecraft going further.
But who wants to go to Mars in a cramped spacecraft smaller than a tent?
They must be idiots.
Don't tell me again I am an idiot. I am not. See http://heiwaco.com/cv.htm
Here are NASA's answers you seem to keep missing seeing in my previous post:
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20160003122.pdfhttp://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19890001049.pdfhttp://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710007291.pdfhttp://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19800022934.pdfhttp://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19700011707.pdfhttp://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19720018196.pdfhttp://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19710015566.pdfhttp://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19650002716.pdfhttp://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19670030750.pdfThe above covers what you say NASA does not answer. It is just a sample of what they make available.
Are you expecting them to redo all the work just for you?
I have shown you where you can find the information you seek. It is not the only source where you can find the answers to your questions.
http://www.braeunig.us/space/index.htmhttp://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/kepler.htmlhttp://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/newton3laws.htmlhttp://web.mit.edu/16.unified/www/SPRING/propulsion/notes/node103.htmlhttp://www.brighthub.com/science/space/articles/116036.aspxhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemetryhttps://www.faa.gov/other_visit/aviation_industry/designees_delegations/designee_types/ame/media/Section%20III.4.1.5%20Maneuvering%20in%20Space.pdfIf you can not find the answers it is because you do not want to find them.
Still just going to claim NASA does not make the information available?
I have pointed out before that NASA did not make this stuff up. They got all this stuff you like to call funny from the previous generations studying the nature of the world and universe around us.
If you are honest with yourself and others you will stop claiming the information is not available.
If you are truly interested in learning KSP is a great learning tool. It allows you to mess around a try different things. It is a adequate simulator of the basics. Which you have continuously demonstrated having a limited understanding.
1. You seem to think propellant being ejected out a rocket nozzle at high velocity does not need to be taken into account when making calculations.
2. You do not understand drag, since you think it is not a factor during reentry. You claim there is some mysterious force slowing down spacecraft during reentry.
3. You do not understand lift since you do not understand how something like the Apollo capsules being able to use it.
4. You do not understand calculating things like delta-v and maneuvers is not effected by one or more people on board the spacecraft.
5. You thinking a highly elliptical orbit will result in the spacecraft crashing back on Earth or only crashing if that orbit would result in an encounter with the moon.
6. You acknowledging gravity is capable of altering velocity yet a gravity assist is impossible.
7. Thinking a reference can not be used in space
8. Thinking measuring angles, telemetry, radar, etc can not be used for navigation in space
9. You seem to not understand delta-v and what it relates to.
10. Thinking Tsiolkovsky rocket equation some how can not be used to answer the amount of propellant needed.