Friznit

You have to go beyond the radiation belts and magnetosphere to get into global space (press 1,2,3 on the numpad whilst in map view to see them - helps to zoom out a bit)

KopernicusWatchdog is a new invisible celestial body from Kopernicus to try around workaround a persistent bug. It could well be causing an issue with Strategia @R-T-B ,thoughts ?

Yep, the C-series table is mostly from the usual interweb source, I've not gone through the source docs to correct it all yet. I need to add all the early INT stuff, then figure out a way to simplify everything down to something accessible to a KSP player who just wants to build the bloody things!

I spent my day reading source docs on the various Saturn derivative studies in the 60s and summarised them all on the wiki here https://github.com/friznit/Unofficial-BDB-Wiki/issues/60#issuecomment-945790528 I will probably simplify that a whole lot for the actual wiki build guide, given that most of them are simply different B9 Partswitches on the fuel tanks and engine plates.

Nimbus is my go to satellite bus for early career. Super useful!

I like it! @Morphisor and I have a similar opinion on early career development. In a regular CTT career game you unlock the first 3 or 4 tiers so quickly that you end up skipping half the BDB rockets unless you're roleplaying (or following the History of Spaceflight contract pack), even with massively nerfed science gains, which then inevitably makes the late game a dreadful grind. I'd love to have a tech tree where the early nodes are more expensive and the BDB parts more spread out. It'd provide more mileage for the early rockets and probes.

Help me @Zorg you're my only hope

Great to see someone tackling this - it's much needed. For info there's a slightly more up to date config in @Bellabong fork of Kerbalism. Might help for you to compare notes and balancing https://github.com/Bellabong/Kerbalism/blob/master/GameData/KerbalismConfig/Support/Bluedog.cfg I think you're right in that these configs are best kept on the Kerbalism side (or standalone if they don't want them). The BDB team relies on the complex mods to maintain compatibility patches for BDB rather than the other way round, as it's simply not feasible to maintain them all at the BDB end. I'm running a KRSS-BDB-Kerbalism career game so would be happy to help stress test your config when it's in a playable state.

Removing Parallax will revert to the standard textures, which work fine. I'm guessing this is an issue with the parallax config shipped with KSRSS, but I haven't dug very deep into it.

Terrific! It would be super useful to have an option to add a secondary scale with 1:0.625 scale conversion, so you can easily compare RL:KSP measures for diameter and length.

Are you using BDB-NIC? It was causing an issues with the old (current release) Apollo parachutes which created excess drag on the Saturn 1B. Other rockets have sufficient oomph to power through so it's less noticeable. I don't know if this is still the case with the new Saturn revamp branch.

I don't have Conformal Decals in this install yet. It was deliberately minimalist to get a stable version of KSRSS and Kerbalism working before I add flavour mods. Harmony appears to be have insinuated it's way into being a hard dependency and I'm at a loss as to why

I'm getting a game breaking NRE spam which appears to be related to the navball being open after I have placed a manoeuvre node. I have no idea what the root cause is though the logs appear to suggest something related to Harmony. Incidentally, it appears that Harmony is a dependency for KSRSS, since it won't load without it but it's not mentioned anywhere in the installation instructions that I can see? Logs here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gZAdrCL747gZ0PiY3NGMARwl2dC6A4OB/view?usp=sharing

Molniya is listed under Vostok on the wiki but essentially it's the same build as the other R7s with the exception of a Block L fourth stage (instead of say, Fregat for Soyuz). I don't think the Block L's S1.5400 is available in game though, but any small vacuum engine should do.

The bottom of the pic is just an old kitbash I did using restock tanks and proc fairings. Even after the BDB Saturn revamp update it'll only really be possible to build some of the Saturn development studies with BDB parts - A-1, C-1 (Saturn 1 Bl. 1), C-2, C-5 and the original Super Jupiter should be doable once the engine mounts are finished. You could probably kitbash some 8m diameter tanks (5m at KSP scale) using Restock tanks or tweakscale to knock up C-3 and C-4 with a little artistic license.

The Nova studies were just studies really. There were at least two - one pre-Saturn and another post-Saturn focussed on manned Mars missions. The Saturn C-series development concepts, that included C-8 for direct ascent to the moon, had nothing to do with either of the Nova studies, although the latter study considered Saturn-derived vehicles for obvious reasons given it was the biggest rocket around at the time. Unfortunately there's quite a lot of confusion and misinformation on the interwebs - most often due to images of the early pre-Saturn concepts being used to illustrate post-Saturn era Nova study and because the C-8 looks remarkably similar in profile to one of the later Nova concepts.

See my post above about the craft files

ScanSat needs more love. It's a fantastic mod that adds new gameplay reasons to actually launch satellites that do something other than comms relays. These are rough kitbashes of a bunch of KSP satellites inspired by ScanSat parts, which are of course inspired by real satellite parts in the first place. Have you ever noticed how many real satellites are blocky squares and how many KSP probes are round? Liberal use of the Near Future suite of mods as well as a bit of Probes+ and probably some BDB too, though I've resisted too much tweakscale this time. And a hefty dose of artistic license.

The craft files need updating - it's on my To Do list. In the meantime you can rebuild the modules following the guide here: https://github.com/friznit/Unofficial-Tantares-Wiki/wiki/ISS (though the actual name of the Octans docking port might have changed here too so you'll need to find the equivalent part!)

This^. I need to update the build guides and images quite a bit. I believe the intended build now is to attach the thrusters and docking port to the bottom of the crew compartment directly.

Mostly yes with the exception that it doesn't support depth mask, which is used by some restock parts and increasingly by other mods, mostly on things like experiment parts.

Are they upside down?

https://github.com/friznit/Unofficial-Tantares-Wiki/wiki/ISS Some of the part names in the guide have likely changed (which is also why old craft files aren't working). If you could rebuild the craft using the guide and point out which of the parts listed is incorrect, that would be super helpful. I'll work through them all given time but any help would speed up the updates.

I suspect you're using the Agena A interstage? That fits onto the tapered tank without an adapter but the straight Agena B/D interstage needs a structural adapter. Functionally either approach works of course, it's simply how close to the real rocket you want it to look. Edit: just flew a quick KH4 mission on Thor Agena D (TAT) on my heavily modded install (JNSQ and all the things) - with a manual launch it's certainly a bit twitchy in the lower atmosphere like all small rockets but if you keep the gravity turn gentle and nudge the prograde down it's fine.