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Hey guys, I have returned after a break I and see very good things! The GSA has a cooperative mission to provide the world with the first space station built under Soviet manufacturing yards, but they lack the capability to put the station into orbit... The United States has offered to provide the necessary booster; the Saturn IB as a deal arose to bring an unspecified number of U.S. Astronauts to the station during it's orbital lifespan.

Aye, Kvant 2 seems to be the only EVA Airlock with EMU onboard MIR. It wasn't til after Kristall docks to lower port where EVAs were used for the Strella and Sofora mast.

@CobaltWolf yeah I am still playing with a 1.1.3 release (most stable I've had) in some free time, but I'm toying with the 1.2 pre as well

Got some time to practice my direct ascent/descent methods; Surveyor and that fancy lunar shelter Love those KIS lockers BTW!

Hullcam - Casevid Camera view of the Lunar Module landing

Also found these interesting videos NASA recreates the Apollo 11 landing profile on Google Earth, and the actual landing Hope this is useful!

@CobaltWolf I do not believe it was that way for descent - During the landing are 3 phases for Powered Decent Initiation (PDI) after Deorbit Insertion Burn (DOI)[LM lowers Periselene to 50,000 ft (15 km) at a point of about 15 degrees up range of the landing site] Braking Phase: Starts at Periselene; 50,000 ft to be exact. LM attitude ranges from windows down until about 45,000 ft. altitude to the start of PDI. Braking Phase ends at about 7,000 ft. altitude and High Gate begins. Approach Phase (High Gate [aviation term]): LM is rotated to windows up, so the Landing Radar data can be integrated into the LM guidance computer (guidance starts around 260 nautical miles from touchdown). Approach Phase ends at 500 ft. altitude, and Low Gate begins Landing Phase (Low Gate [aviation; you guessed it!]): Begins at 500 ft. and typically ends with a 3 fps touchdown. NOTE: Manual control can be taken over in either Approach and Landing Phases to allow the pilot to visually evaluate the landscape and landing site. This is from an Apollo 11 Press Release July 6th, 1969 - Most Apollo Mission went this way also. ...Few people know the Apollo crews had autopilot, just very limited, primitive autopilot B)

..there is? have to right click and enable ^

The Saturn would be better utilized as a (E)HLLV from an economic standpoint considering almost none is reusable... Let the orbital construction begin lol @CobaltWolf "I was planning on making a sort of radially attached power transformer part with some plugs, so you could lash the parts onto a lander's power systems." Could I use the normal KIS utilities to attach the system to the lander, like the default KIS attach ports?

yeah I wanted to use the power plugs to attach the ALSEP to the Shelter(I.E. from Power Station to Shelter) to give it power so I can "do science" without crew there. I utilized the MOL bus for the lander, but was curious if I could or not

@CobaltWolf ah-ha you are exactly right friend! 14 days configured life support with ALSEP package. One question with ALSEP - can you surface attach the power station to vehicles? I had a plan to use the ALSEP Solar Array for power regen besides the redundant fuel cell

had played a bit of the BDB 1.2pre and I love it so far! the IVAs look great BTW, and have been working on a concept lunar shelter patented by Rockwell for a new mission. Pics will come soon-ish; Windows 10 updated, so I lost my Microsoft Edge, with all my passwords and bookmarks, soo i'll be cleaning that up today The Hype intensifies!

I can only account for my install of course it is a 1.1.3 install BTW, not the 1.2pre. Disable the crossfeed on the decoupler

ummm... wut? lol Having severe problems with my Saturn V looking like a wet noodle upon ascent, although I'm loving the LES!

I tried a couple of launches with the Saturn V, and keep in mind I use Kerbalism and KW SLA; The S-IC seems almost ok... could up the thrust to the F-1, the dV seems about right (maybe a bit more), but i'm staging @ ~17 or so km (which seems awfully low imo). As the F-1 goes, the thrust could be increased so in the even you don't want to make an uprated F-1 (like the F-1A) you could lower the thrust limiter to compensate. The S-II TWR is horrendous... I know IRL it's all not that great either, but without propellant loading tweaks I was flailing at about 30 km or so with full tanks. J-2 thrust should be increased, or S-II tank needs serious propellant reduction. There is a gap in the bottom part of the S-IVB / S-II interstage, I had to 'move' the interstage to cover the gap and another issue: the placement of the fins for the S-IC are messed up: two you have to adjust to look right, and the other two you cannot (and I mean cannot) place them facing outward in the appropriate direction even with use of the rotate button. One other issue is from a kerbalism standpoint. Upon returning to the lunar surface I increased my radiation shielding (little more than half), and filled my mono etc. before I descended to the surface full ec as well - I had little more than enough time to plant the flag, EVA report, sample before my EC was below 50%...and the CSM was almost half way through the nearside. I got back in (and will say the ladder and ramp worked much better this time!!) and ascended - to realize not only is my EC depleting at a rapid pace, I do not have enough dV to get into a proper orbit... I ran out of LFO, but with every drop of my monopropellant I managed to get into a ~6km-7km orbit! By the time my CSM rendezvoused with the Ascent Stage, poor Jeb and Bob were burning alive due to no scrubber from depleted EC... it was a sad day to just get there in time to hear their dying breaths. So, imo also: increase the EC and lfo in the ascent stage, or EC at least in the descent stage - on the descent stage, I seem to have enough dV to land even with the shielding, but other cargo has not been tested on it, so I cannot make that assumption.. Are those the ullage motors, or just part of the design? the parts look great, but I hope they're not attached to the stage I have read the ullage/retros on stages as follows : S-IC - x8 Retrorockets @ 75,800 lbs thrust for 5s S-II - x4 Ullage Motors @ 23,000 lbs for 4s, x4 Retrorockets @ 34,800 lbs for 1.5s S-IVB - x2 Ullage Motors @ 3,400 lbs for 4s you may know that already, but they do look great!

on it!

Funny you should ask, because I used your cameras on my Eve probe, and they work perfectly

I've always used Hullcam, well... because seeing stage separation in the first row is the only way to go. Hype continues

Concluded my Eve mission - Brought my orbital period from 6 days to 1 hour, 4 minutes; separation, deorbit, and with luck I managed to land within the mountainous region kilometers from a shoreline. After successful landing, the Centaur Relay got the go ahead to extend it's mission - It now serves as a guardian overlooking the purple jewel

haha sorry! the orientation of the dish on top and the view of the windows looked confusing

love that last pic with the EVA - you can see the Scimitar Antenna, and I actually didn't notice until now the LM has back windows too

Exciting test run for scientists in the planned Eve flyby - Saturn I lifts off with a centaur upper stage converted into a relay satellite and a small lander using a PIBS upper stage as a deorbit engine. The landers bus is from an old agena stage that was scrapped. Currently in a 6 day elliptical equatorial orbit awaiting the right time for detachment and deorbit maneuver while keeping the centaur relay available for exploration of Gilly if dV permits First time for one of my BDB-inspired probes to make it to Eve

is the master file ok to test with the 1.2 pre-release?

Probes Plus! used in this version Oh, it would be awesome to see plug nozzles make an emergence into the VAB

The INT-19 used Minuteman-1 SRMs (4 to 12 to be exact), the INT-18 used 4 UA1205 or UA1207 SRMs 18 on left, 19 on the right