What did you do in KSP today?

This is more of a "What did you do in KSP over the last couple of weeks" post, since I've been doing a lot of fairly mundane things that I didn't think warranted a post of their own.

For instance, I sent a new shipment to Jool.

This consists of three science/relay satellites for Jool's moons (I already have satellites over Pol and Laythe,) a smaller satellite to orbit Jool itself (with just the science experiments, no scanners or relay) and a comm/power strut for Laythe Station, this time including a pair of fuel cell arrays to give it enough electricity to run its ISRU.

I also sent some more tourists to Moho.

This mission was mainly done to bring a new fuel transport craft to the planet (with increased oxidizer and monopropellant capacity, making it easier to fill up my station and lander.) I mainly picked up the tourist contract (three of them, two one-person contracts and one for two people) to offset the costs. They arrived successfully and are now waiting for the mining outpost to rotate around to the day-side of the planet before landing.

I added a new extension to my Mun base.

This one increases the base's crew capacity to six (it originally could only support two) and includes a parking port for a rover.

My LaythePort mission arrived at Pol.

The main purpose of this mission is to drop a mining/refuelling base onto the surface of Laythe to support future spaceplane operations. It also carried a second fuel tank and power/comm strut for Foothold Station, bring that station one step closer to completion. I haven't sent it on its way to Laythe yet as that's going to be the most complicated and failure-prone part of my entire Joolean operation thus far, since I'll have to bring the mine down onto the tiny island that I've selected for my base (it has rover wheels so it can move around the island a bit on its own power, but hitting the island itself will come down entirely to getting the re-entry trajectory right) and then link it up with the docking assembly that I'm going to use to allow my planes to attach themselves for refuelling. I've also never done an all-in test of this procedure, although I've tested the various steps individually.

Finally, I sent a new rover to the Mun.

This rover was actually designed for use on Duna (I've made a post about it before) but I figured I might as well test it out on the Mun first. Here it is being carried down to the surface by my lifting craft.

Upon reaching the surface, the top docking port was detached via a radial decoupler and the lifting craft carried it far above the Munar surface, undocked itself, then returned to the base to re-fuel, allowing the port and decoupler to destroy itself on impact with the Munar surface. The next step was to bring the rover around to dock with the specially-prepared port on the Mun base's new module. I'd simulated this procedure on Kerbin, hacking gravity to ensure that everything would sit at the same height as it would on the Mun's surface, but I still had my fingers crossed for this part of the process since you can never be sure how things will go when you try something like this for real.

Fortunately, there was no need to worry as the docking completed successfully on the first attempt. Unfortunately I didn't notice until all this was completed that I'd put a completely useless atmospheric analyzer on the rover (it was designed for Duna, after all.) Ah well, better to have a part you don't need than to be missing a part that you do need.What did you do in KSP today?

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