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I've also been thinking along similar lines: https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/topic/174601-shower-thoughts/?do=findComment&comment=4322536
It's a polar route that attempts to keep as much as possible to flat ice and flat water:
It would:
- start at KSC
- head south to the only stretch you have the coastal opportunity to mount the southern polar cap
- proceed directly to the south pole
- then toward the channel at 150E, dismounting the southern cap (using chutes)
- proceed through the 10S 150E channel up toward 50N 90E to enter the northern tundra for the only land segment of the whole journey
- pass through the lake at 75N 75E
- and head up to the North Pole
- then direct to 60N 100W to re-enter the ocean and head south
- pass through the channel at 10N 95W
- circumnavigate the southern cape
- and return to KSC
My amphibian, Sea Spray III, would be a starting candidate for this mission, as it is relatively fast on water, and is likely to be stable and very fast on ice; only needing to be fitted with chutes for the maneuver to exit the southern polar cap.
I'll be doing some sea trials shortly to test feasibility.
I'm posting this here to gather thoughts and any possible objections under the rules before I invest heavily. I understand @18Watt is "on leave", so I think I could be guided by those other interested parties with an opinion.
In sum, the route departs from and returns to KSC and visits both poles. "Circumnavigation or no?" Thoughts?
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9 minutes ago, Tokamak said:
I mean, possible...but when KSP takes like 15+ mins to start up each time... XD
Some would say that 106 mods is an "own wound", you see. Nothing is free.
Anyway, I do hope that my colleague (Lisias) has got a good fix for you. Peace & prosperity, friend.
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4 minutes ago, Lisias said:
"If you wish to catch a rabbit you put a ferret into the hole, and if the rabbit is there he runs." — Hercule Kerman.
Zis is ze way. You have reason.
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So, I am in the shower (hypothetically). And I'm a busy man so I don't get a lot of time to shower; thus I do like to use that time proactively.
And I was thinking what a lot of time wastage in this thing, Elcano Challenge, so most naturally, I'm thinking, "how to save time (& cut costs)?".
I attach below what I came up with. And I admit I haven't been paying attention in all the years (and iterations) this thing has been running... so this may not be an original idea. [But I will be the first to patent it!]
After all, most people waste a lot more time in the shower than I do! Easy to outclass me on innovation...
The first key to it is that it begins at the North pole, visits the South pole and returns to the South pole. Circumnav 101...
The second key to it is that it takes the flattest (fastest) route. It also has the advantage that it minimizes the time-wasting distractions of e.g. scenery.
Just two kinds of scenery, in fact: water and frozen water. So, one kind, really. (Maybe a coupla hundred kilometers of frozen green H2O, if you wish to be finnicky.)
Spoiler
The vehicle to be used would be designed for very high speed on ice. And high speed on water. (Maybe Sea Spray III?)
I thought it might have to have chutes on it to dismount the polar caps. Ah yes, it would have to. Leaving the southern cap.
I think a direct, free fall (no wings or other exploits) -- well, OK, I might be going very fast at the time the cap self-terminated -- would not invalidate the rules, or at least the spirit -- of the challenge?
(OK, see: "Brief jumps over dunes and such are permitted".)
Seems, too, like this expedition could depart southward from KSC and return to KSC (from the north and around the southerly cape) with little additional expense.
Still seems like a huge waste of time. I think I would have to pay a flunky to do it for me. (I know. I'll have my assistant call Greta Kerman and see if she's available...)
After all, Big Business is pretty brisk right now!
And Time, as you no doubt know, is Money!
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On 9/14/2023 at 4:20 AM, Tokamak said:
disabling mods one at a time
A better way is to use a "binary chop [bisection]".
You disable half the mods, A-M say; then test.
If that's no good, pick another "half": N-S say, and disable those also.
Or if it is good, re-enable "half": e.g. G-M.
And so you go, until the very culprit is found. Just 7 or so iterations.
It sounds painful, but track what you are doing on a piece of notepaper and it's fun in the same way that only some people like to read Sherlock Holmes.
SpoilerNow is the time the nitpickers come out of ze woodwork and point out that some mods rely on other mods, etc etc excuse etc.
"Begone, silly gnit pickers!" This is exactement the fashion in which the great Hercule Poirot does le detection...
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In your report to High Command, I recommend you write along the lines of:
"Our mission to deflect a dangerous Class D (or possibly even Class C?) asteroid succeeded in protecting the KSC and other major population areas from
catastrophicapocalyptic damage, and -- after launching a single ADD (Asteroid Deterrent Device) -- was able to confirm that the asteroid harmlessly impacted the desert (population 0), with the benefit also of producing large-scale seismic information about petroleum deposits over a wide area that will be useful to major exploration companies".Yes, I do think "Mission Failed" is almost certainly more information than High Command wish to hear.
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8 hours ago, dci said:
it took 2 orbits to settle position. Now it is pinpointed with minor to none drift
That's good work.
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10 hours ago, Andrew1233 said:
should I buy
I just looked up the price and it's still relatively cheap.
I bought it when Squad was still in active development and could use the funds. So I purchased both DLCs simply to support Squad.
Since then, those DLCs have become "standard" KSP, as far as I think. For anyone who downloads/uploads KSP craft, I think they are very worthwhile for just that reason.
So I'll admit I call this DLC "Breaking Bad". Or perhaps "Breaking Heart" is suggestive, too, after you've built some robotic fantasy only to have heck break loose. "Breaking Loose"...
I would not let a single part such as the KAL be a deal-breaker ("Breaking Deals"), especially before you've explored what it can do.
Let the glass be half full: buy it just for the Cubs!! ("Breaking Glass", "Breaking Parts", "I break for code"...)
If you still feel hesitant, following Bej, trying the robotics pioneer mod ("Infernal Robotics"?), if you haven't already, to see if you even like robotics might be a good step. ( I should do that myself.)
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Platypus was a prelude for work commissioned by Admiral @chadgaskerman for his Project 432 and TEK-46 (the latter just because I like it).
I have in mind to go for a simpler set of controls (at first) for these large submarines.
Inspection of the TEK-46 shows it already equipped with fore and aft ballast (ore) tanks; 3 at each end. My initial plan will be to convert these to a set of two monopropellant tanks at each end: one main-ballast size and the other trim-size.
Then add a Fast Flood/Vent control for the main ballast tanks (fore & aft). Then Slow Flood/Vent controls independently for fore and aft trim.
Fine adjustments to total ballast can be performed by e.g. additional flooding into fore and aft tanks simultaneously. Then manually transferring some amount to/from main ballast. Possibly, the trim tanks will be over-sized for trim permitting a main ballast quota for adjustments, without the necessity of transferring to the main tanks -- as long as capacity for trim flood/vent remains for the primary function of boat trim.
Priming the boat for dive operation would entail:
- an initial flood of main tanks to provide sufficient ballast for
- transfer to trim tanks to bring them to 50% each[1], then
- flooding main to overall neutral buoyancy condition, then
- diving to a shallow depth and leveling off to
- trim the boat for neutral attitude
[1] performed equitably by flooding for'ard trim to 100%, deducting from both main tanks; then transferring (manually) 50% from for'ard trim to aft trim
If there is a forseeable "pressure point" in this control design, it is whether fine amounts of ballast can be transferred accurately for small adjustments.
It is attractive to start with a simple design and then augment it only when and how required.
There is an argument, in fact, to begin with just fore and aft main ballast and determine whether manual pumping between them is accurate enough for trim. I will, in fact, start with this scheme and possibly using heterogeneous sizing to pre-dial some "one-size" trim into the boat for initial dive.
This thread is certainly open to comments, as well as for showing project progress.
UPDATE: the TEK-46 does work, as is.
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Playing with my cookie-cutter airport-generator again. This is Magdalene at 23N 143E. (Literally, one command line to create a new airport.)
Normally a 1700m runway, but I manually scaled this back to 850m, and removed all the usual artefacts (control tower, radio tower, admin building et al) and added a bare Observatory triangular base and one of my Kontrol towers.
Also removed the 4th and 5th map decals at the ends to minimalize the local terrain disruption.
"Verily, it is easier to destroy than to create." Words to live by.
The script has a runway length parameter (unused) and it will soon be used to auto-scale the (KerbalKonstructs) airport.
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I liked the look of Some_KSP_Player's 'Kerman Station', so I split it into 4 components and then launched them each separately on a Minimus + Marvel + X200-8 tank combination[1]; the hub and 'DOM Avionics' module first.
I think it may be the very first time I've downloaded and built someone else's space station -- it was a fun build (wiping out Saturday afternoon).
I did bust it down to 1.11.2 which meant substituting the much smaller 'solarPanels4' 1x6 in place of the new 1.12 'solarPanelOX10L' 1x5. Ptthhh.
[1] pretty much a "Wham... Bang! Space...?" auto-ride experience, launching on half throttle, pitching down at 30 m/s, instantly slamming the go-lever to the fore-stop... yahoo.
ERRATUM; ahem. well the badge in my signature says adsii1970's Sandbox Micro Challenge was the first alien station I built. Pardon me!
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15 minutes ago, space_otter said:
What mod is that runway from
See this invaluable guide to its usage
And Capetown comes from The Airport Exchange
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This is another episode in the life of Capt. Jerfry "Lucky" Kerman.
He has just maneuvered his trusty ASR Revere II inside the 100m perimeter of the Simplicity booster. This puts the booster in range of his ASR Debris Dematerializer device that will send its components back to KSC for reuse.
The previous recovery had been performed just 20 klicks west and so he had chosen to fly at 20m ASL. Slowing down on approach to the target, he dialed in 2m on the autopilot (you can see where this is going).
Then he made an impulsive decision to avoid a head-on impact with the target by dialing in a 1-degree heading change to port. Too late, he thought about wing clearance as the port wing swung down to shake hands with the Great Briny...
A ferocious cartwheel with the spray subsiding to reveal everything intact. Except the vertical stabilizer. Oh oh, and the elevators. No more flight for this machine.
Rules of ASR now make this Revere II (and its hapless pilot) in need itself of Air-Sea Rescue (nicknamed by some KSC wags as the "Fetch-Quest Unit").
After a good deal of RT negotiation (i.e. begging), Jerfry has convinced High Command to permit him to try a high-speed water taxi to Cape Horn AFB, about 40 more clicks eastward.
I am going to go out on a limb here with the prediction that this Captain has a promotion and pay raise in his near future -- to a desk job.
SpoilerStable at 58 m/s (not risking higher since we are already above Vs...)
A few minutes later: bet you're sorry now, Jerfry! "We here at KSC Mission Control just wish to remind you of your personal parachute, dude. You did bring it, right?"
SpoilerFlying on the Almighty Autopilot in the Sky and by the seat of his panther Gimbals...
If he gets back alive...
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Welcome to the forum!
I would suspect the mass/inertia.
I would Mod-F12 two of them into orbit/rendez-vous, one full fuel and the other with no LFO, but just MP for the RCS. For comparison and also as a translation reference (though you said that's working).
See if the lighter vehicle rotates at all and any better than the heavy one.
For a vehicle like that, you might consider using the LFO-powered Vernor RCS, which is more powerful. I would also almost certainly be using some number of the large size RW for that size ship.
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High Command insisted on this.
Nobody here in the SPH was 'onboard'...
Capt. Jerfry "Lucky" Kerman ("unlucky in love and unlucky at work") drew the short straw to fly the maiden flight.
If that 'asymmetric' thrust thingy in the brochure is that little vent near the tip of the RACL ("Rocket-Assisted Carrier Landing"), Jerfry better have cinched his straps extra tight coz he's in for a helluva ride on this bronco...! It's on wrong.
[Flight's paused right here as we enter this into the Ops log. We're about to find out... Brace yourselves.]
FIRE TRUCKS! Assume your stations!!
SpoilerIt is true what the recruiters say: " you only get to git this much fun in the military, son!"
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On 9/3/2023 at 8:32 AM, Duke MelTdoWn said:
it is possible to fly to space on 2 Wheesleys and a Swivel
Would love to see your rendition of this (coz I want to avoid taking it on as a challenge myself).
Any chance you would post something to KerbalX...? T'would be of interest to many, methinks.
UPDATE: we just crossed paths. So you might like this Whiplash-plus-NERV combination: Geist. Ah, yes, and Poltergeist, which simply switched the Whiplash to the centerline thrust position.
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4 hours ago, camacju said:
Latitude -25, longitude -158.5
Yeah, wiki: "The highest peak on Eve since version 0.21.1 is 7540 m high, found near (25° S, 158.5° W)".
I just sent a Tardis 2 exploration vehicle there (7506m, dubbed "Eve Max") and am waiting for sun-up to find the exact top.
25S is a long way from the equator. Is that much of a handicap for ascent?
I have a base (so far unused) on top of Mauve Mountain, located at -0.52 +167.51 6415m, which I had selected for equatorial launch...
Spoilername = Eve Max Tardis
lat = -24.9934
lon = -158.4754
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This is the Platypus Dive Research Vehicle. I will give an overview of what is inside and how it works.
Pilot Control Overview
- fast-flood main ballast tank
- fast-vent main ballast tank
- fine-flood main ballast tank
- find-vent main ballast tank
- trim for'ard (moves mass from the aft tank to the for'ard tank)
- trim aft (moves mass from the for'ard tank to the aft tank)
Craft-File Editing: Resources
The distinctive monoprop tanks are actually, from fore to aft: XenonGas, Oxidizer and MonoPropellant. The first of those two tanks was edited to include a new Resource section for the desired contents and with capacity expanded as desired. I retained the original MonoPropellant section but zeroed amount and maxAmount and inverted all the booleans (True to False and False to True) to nullify them. It's possible to simply remove them but for some kind of stock tanks, KSP defaults the 'known' resource back into existence if it does not appear at all.
The for'ard trim tank is 24,000 units of XenonGas and the aft trim tank is 600 liters of MP. Respective densities are 0.1 kg/liter and 4, giving a 1-to-40 ratio in terms of mass.
The 'standard' C7 Brand Adapter LFO tanks have been modified to contain a pure 800 liters of LF each. They power the Wheesley for conventional propulsion. I did just remove the Oxidizer section in these tanks and expand the capacity in liters of LF to be the sum (360 + 440), such that the total did not expand.
Worth making a distinction here that this Adapter is a standard tank in the machine used for a conventional purpose, so I never 'cheat' when 'monkeying' (research term; look it up) with the contents of such 'for convenience'. The ballast system tanks are 'open season' because they are part of the 'magic'[TM] side here. There are mods for this kind of thing, but I generally find it desirable to avoid e.g. config files that others might then have to download.
Craft-File Editing: Engines for resource production
Apart from the conventional propulsive Wheesley, the following engines can be identified: two Twitches, a Puff and a Dawn. Their ModuleEnginesFX sections have been modified to set independentThrottle True and independentThrottlePercentage to a calculated (hugely) negative amount. The Twitch supplying OX for fast-flood of main ballast is geared to -40404.0391%, for example. The fine-flood Twitch uses -12121.212%. The OX is pushed to the central main ballast (yellow) tank. (The catch is that LF is also produced by this technique!)
A worked example is worthwhile. I wanted to produce 250 liters of OX per second. The Twitch is rated at 1.125 liters/sec (LF + OX) fuel consumption. We want a percentage thrust. Hence:
-250*20/11*100/1.125 = -40404.04.04
and you will realize that the multiplication by 20/11 (LF:OX being in a consumption ratio of 9:11) is intended to scale the OX component up to the total fuel production of the Twitch.
The Dawn produces XenonGas for the for'ard trim tank and the Puff produces MP for the aft trim tank.
Main ballast buoyancy control is relatively uncomplicated. Two Twitches producing LF/OX at different rates are employed for flooding and the OX goes directly to the single main ballast tank. Venting simply opens one of two drain valves on the OX tank, selecting the appropriate rate. The wrinkle, however, is that, while flooding the OX tank, LF is being pushed into the twin fuel (LF) tanks. Two opposed LF drain valves on one of the LF tanks, set in Vessel-draining mode, are opened to exactly vent the same amount of unwanted LF as is being produced by the running Twitch as a by-product. There are two sets of these LF valves, matching the two flood rates.
Trim adjustment uses a similar technique for different reasons. Trim For'Ard produces XenonGas for the for'ard trim tank, adding mass. An equivalent mass has to be removed from the aft tank, so this is done by venting MP via a drain valve. Trim Aft works in reverse.
So a note about the initial priming of the trim ballast subsystem. When those tanks (Xe and MP) are empty, Either of the Trim modes will fill one tank while venting an already-empty tank: a no-op. Thus, you can prep for ocean-going by filling one trim tank, while loitering on the surface. Filling the tank takes a while, but the advantage of completely filling it is that that total mass in the trim tanks is now exactly half of their total carrying capacity. That gives a) a known quantity consistent across every dive, and b)the greatest 'leverage' on trim balance via the greatest trim range. After priming, the opposite Trim command can be employed to balance fore and aft equally or, better yet, when the sub has been tuned to known quantities, that known balance can be dialed in, ready for dive operations.
Submersible parameter tuning
A trim ballast subsystem is possibly not so necessary on small, simple craft but ought to alleviate a lot of work at design time for large and/or complex submarines. Furthermore, dynamic trimming for differing fuel loads or to compensate at speed for unbalanced 'aerodynamic' drag may become important.
A primitive guide to trim while in motion and with SAS engaged is to observe the plane angle and trim until is it neutral.
The overall best and easiest way to tune is to take a submersible in its initial sea trials to the seabed (as an easy way to arrest/reset motion and attitude. Vent main ballast until the craft slowly rises. Patiently true out the vertical speed to zero. Release SAS and then observe attitude drift: bow (nose) up or down. Be patient but it is quite easy to find settings in which the sub hangs motionless in the water, with zero degrees attitude. Note the numbers, main and trim quantities.
Planning and Design
I ran a spreadsheet on everything to make it easier to adjust settings when anything unexpected forced a change. I'll expand on this in the near future...
Issues and Future Work
KSP truncates drainRate values into the range 1-20%. This is the annoying kind of 'fact-checking' that modern programmers must do to comply with corporate standards for making bland, boring, unimaginative, creativity-suppressing products.
Where would we (I) be without the imaginative lack of concern displayed by Squad programmers when they wrote the code that trusted the human-editable craft file when it specified a vastly negative throttle setting, hey??
OK, so this forced me to have a faster fine-control vent rate than I wanted. Particularly as this was ultimately determined also by the LF fuel capacity for LF/OX production reasons.
Adding valves (doubling up) can conceivably lift the 20% limit (although not very relevant to subs unless you wanted emergency evacuation in less than 5 secs).
I noticed that the drain rate on one of multiple tanks, when set in Vessel-drain mode, appears to take the percentage on the tank (part) it is connected to, and disregards the total capacity of that kind of tank across the vessel. This suggests that a small, auxiliary tank can be added in some circumstances, with a vessel drain and a rate set, calibrated on the size of the small tank, such that an effective drain rate significantly less than 1% can be achieved. (I have assigned an underling on my staff to look into this, but he is known for laziness; well it will be his last chance!) This will work when like tanks are being filled/emptied uniformly.
Another item to note relates to why trim ballast on Platypus is this strange platyputtian mix of Xenon and MP.
The original intention had been to use MP uniformly across the two trim tanks and in the main ballast. Filling the for'ard trim tank would require producing MP for it, and the aft and the main, in the desired amount scaled across the total capacity of the three tanks. The main would simultaneously drain what it received and the aft trim would drain twice what it received. Unfortunately, fuel produced is not stored in the ratio of the individual tank's total capacity, but in the ratio of the tank's remaining capacity (i.e. emptiness). (A desirable way to do things, really, and exactly what my mod, Telemagic, does: to each according to its need and from each according to its ability.)
Platypus unintentionally flies. Badly. With its puny wingspan (staying that way), its approach speed for a conventional landing would resemble a ballistic projectile. It can currently be flown to a dive site and enter the water, nose-first, under chutes at about 9 m/sec. Chutes repacked, and after a submerged vertical speed run, it can get airborne again and could be flown to KSC and ditched offshore and then taxied onto land. It is probably not hard at all to change the chute arrangement for it to perform a vertical gear-down landing on land (easy). The superable challenge would then be to effect the belly landing on water without breakage. I think a v3 update will add this capability shortly.
Acknowledgements
The first time I heard of the engine negative-gearing for resource production idea was from Dr @swjr-swis. (See the furtively beautiful Anion.)
When I ran into the first set of issues with the original objectives (listed in Pilot Control Overview), I ruminated on what would be necessary to overcome them (and would eventually find an additional issue (unwanted production of LF)) but decided to publish Platypus in a slightly-restricted form ("publish or perish" re grant schedules, you know). Gratitude again to Dr @swjr-swis for the "push" to go the whole mile.
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Just some progress news from the Platypus Dive Research Vehicle team.
The initial objectives of attaining independent control of main and trim ballast have been achieved (fully stock). This means no fiddling.
- keys [1] & [2] provide fast flooding and venting of the main ballast tank.
- keys [3] & [4] provide fine flooding and venting of main ballast
- keys [5] & [6] provide trim ballast transfer fore and aft
This the link to the current state of the Platypus DRV .
(You'll notice some round-off errors causing miniscule cross-chatter into the conventional LF supply. Lots of panels open inside with wires hanging down. And all that paraphernalia cluttering the deck: what is that? Yeah, hey, it's research. Take a bus if you want 'conventional'...
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More seriously, this IS a research effort: so feedback is welcome. Probably here is a good place for any discussion.
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9 hours ago, Hotel26 said:
Shell is on the right.
Well this latest foolery has brought up the mystery to me of why and when Kerbals swimming in the deeps, ascending, will either 1) take off at speed like the old days, or b) crawl up at 0.123 m/s...
So there seems to be a mode when the Kerbal is in the proximity of a craft (that it might be attempting to board) that prevents the sudden, speedy ascent. I've experimented briefly but have not yet cracked the code of how to reliably get away and commence toward the surface at good speed.
I've opened Kerbals in proximity to sunken craft in case this causes any lengthy dissertation.
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No doubt, the rules on this have changed over game versions, but I'm particularly interested in 1.12 (which is near enough to 1.11, which I play).
This mechanism is important when trying to swim from one craft to another one, very close by, in order to board it.
Kerbals seem to have a loiter-in-a-very-slow-climb mode that is quite annoying if they escape and begin crawling to the surface. Call that 'crawl' mode.
Then they have a 'shoot' mode in which they rise rather rapidly.
SpoilerTo rescue them early, it is quite a good game to maneuver a rescue craft into their path overhead (either mode/speed) with a deck chair to 'save them from certain death' (from e.g. air supply exhaustion?
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I have built underwater base experiments with e.g. 'verandas' or overhead arches to provide a 'safe zone', but don't really know what I am doing without knowledge of the 'rules'...
Ideas?
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Spoiler
I mentioned a recent opus, Deep, recently:
And had mused about using this underwater mining base as a way to shuttle fuel to the surface for use as a sea lane fuel depot.
Toyed this evening with a prototype, one of my uglier efforts:
Deep is on the left. Shell is on the right. It can't do much except go up & down and then a little fiddly maneuvering on the seabed to dock.
Looking at this, I have to say I am not too proud of this. I should wear a paper bag over my head.
Hmm, I think I will just bury this whole post in a spoiler.
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10 hours ago, Robin Patenall said:
I have a standardised nuclear pusher stage
I found this very interesting by comparison. It's similar to my Mule, which is based around the Mk3 Liquid Fuel Fuselage and is powered by 4 NERV.
It lifts off with some unnecessary drag incurred by its format and with a light load of LF (3000) because it only lifts off once. ("No one hears your finger nails drag across the black board in space.")
Mule carries only a small amount of OX (for RCS and to supply limited amounts to other craft.
Once the decision to tolerate atmospheric drag was initially made[1], no service bay was required and the only part that might have really benefited from one would be the RTG (80kg) which is an adequate, reliable, lightweight power supply. (And no need to worry about its radiation levels under the circumstances!!)
The particular detail I liked about your tug is the 180-degree alignment doppel-ganging with three engines providing an anti-collision phase shift!
There is a subtle advantage in keeping three similar axis dimensions in terms of rotational inertia (Mule) but I doubt it really provides significant advantage in rotation-for-docking maneuvers.
Here's another detail I do really like about your design: A Jumbo filled with 6400 LF exceeds the capacity of the Mk3 Liquid Fuselage. That's a tie-breaker, I think!! You win.
You didn't say what your tug is named so, unless you tell the name, my rev'eng will be called Patenall...
[1] done again, I'd put a fairing around the whole thing for launch.
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11 hours ago, kerbiloid said:
It's a plane tail brake. Use it to land on a roof.
("Or on a carrier...")
"Egad! By the holy chilblains of Jove's kerbiloid arthritis!!" That's it!
It's an e.g. P3 Orion carrier-landing RACL (Rocket-Assisted Carrier Landing)!?
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I used 4x Sepatrons on my 2021 Martin 'Top Deck' with a solid fuel supply on a carrier to recharge those retros for Navy 'catch and release' training programs.
The Navy canceled the program when Admiral Chad Gaskerman @chadgaskerman torpedoed it -- reason: Seps have puny thrust (18 kN) and a long burn (5s).
Whereas, a baby like this, eh, 'Launch Escape System'[1] delivers 750 kN for 0.5 seconds and that burn could be down-rated, tailored individually to suit most kinds of carrier craft.
Fly approximately down the deck, 2m above it, and punch the STOP! button to drop the Lamborghini into the 'park' like a valet at a 4-star restaurant. Yowser, I like it.
Spoiler[1] Why the funny name, though: 'Launch Escape System'? And not with the other 'solid fuel boosters'? I hadn't paid much attention to that...
Methinks I should shower more often.
Where would we (I) be without the imaginative lack of concern displayed by Squad programmers when they wrote the code that trusted the human-editable craft file when it specified a vastly negative throttle setting, hey??
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The "Unread Threads" (with "Mark Site Read") feature is something I heavily use now.
I do not believe there is currently a technique under the Invision forum software for an individual user to mark a particular topic (thread) "of no interest" such that any activity in that thread is filtered out of the Unread Threads list presented to that viewer.
I've looked at the "Follow" menu and believe I am either correct or just missing something.
Please advise?