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    [1.12.5] Bluedog Design Bureau - Stockalike Saturn, Apollo, and more! (v1.13.0 "Забытый" 13/Aug/2023)

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    Posted · Edited by Invaderchaos

    Some progress:

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    (Pictured: Transit 3B, Transit 4A, Transit 5A, Transit 5BN, Transit 5E, Transit 5 SOOS, Injun 1, Clementine, SOLRAD/GRAB 3, LOFTI, SOLRAD 8, POPPY block 1, and POPPY block 2)

    Ok here's a sneak peak at some of the stuff I've been working on lately:

    Spoiler

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    Transit 5BN

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    Transit 5

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    Poppy block 2

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    Transit 3B and LOFTI

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    Transit 5E and Transit 5BN

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    Transit 5 SOOS

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    Transit 5-Oscar and Transit 5 SOOS in Scout fairing

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    Transit 5E and Transit 5BN in Ablestar fairing

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    Transit 5 in Able fairing

     

    [1.12.5] Bluedog Design Bureau - Stockalike Saturn, Apollo, and more! (v1.13.0 "Забытый" 13/Aug/2023)

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    On 7/8/2021 at 9:42 PM, Yuriy Istochnikov said:

    Very nice!!!

    Also i'm waiting for Pioneer Venus... Any plans for complexion? I hope use the entry probes for a very nice "Grand Tour"

    Thanks! There are currently no active attempts to finish Pioneer Venus. That doesn't mean it will not get picked up again however. I might consider evaluating to see if I can pick up where Cobalt left off in the future, but that's definitely at the bottom of my priority list when it comes to what I am working on.

    [1.12.5] Bluedog Design Bureau - Stockalike Saturn, Apollo, and more! (v1.13.0 "Забытый" 13/Aug/2023)

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    36 minutes ago, Pappystein said:

    One word describes this....

     

     

    Mommy! :D

     

    Ok several more.

    AWESOME.   I can not wait.   Pioneer Orbiter tanks and engine, reminds me of the same generation's Titan Satellite Launch Dispenser.....  Abet scaled down with the flat plate on the wrong side.

     

    And the relatively obvious questions,

    The aux pack (the lopsided lobe,) is it going to be B9PartSwitch-able, a Separate part or is the whole core a  single part?    Cause I think that would be a new great general purpose 6 sided Probe core.

    The RCS on the Dish, will that be part of the dish, or a separate part?

     

     

    I would say I know the feeling....  

    But after a while you almost get used to it.   You have no energy... and all you want to do is play stupid games to occupy your mind with the mindless....   Then even that is too much effort.

     

    wait, what do you mean I was building an "Full proposed" ISS???!!!   I don't remember that! :P

     

    Anyway,

    Here is hoping there is a light at the end of the tunnel.   That your brain isn't fed to the illithids...  and that you have some time to decompress.

     

    The experiment payload section, the squashed hexagon at the side, is a separate part. Therefore the core hexagonal pioneer bus will exist as its own part. The RCS and the dish are currently the same part, but I am still considering a variant without the RCS. However this will sacrifice some of the AO, so I’m still deciding, 

    [1.12.5] Bluedog Design Bureau - Stockalike Saturn, Apollo, and more! (v1.13.0 "Забытый" 13/Aug/2023)

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    Posted · Edited by Invaderchaos

    I think it’s been a little while since I last posted anything here, but I have been keeping busy with the probes I’ve been working on. Here are some update pics of Pioneer 10/11:

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    Many of the parts seen here are still pretty WIP, so keep that in mind. Pioneer 10/11 is on the horizon, along with some of the other probes I’m working on (Transit 4, Transit 5, Poppy, and Clementine).

    [1.12.5] Bluedog Design Bureau - Stockalike Saturn, Apollo, and more! (v1.13.0 "Забытый" 13/Aug/2023)

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    20 minutes ago, Hachiro said:

    @CobaltWolf The VS-11 Module is a 1.5m module, it looks like, with the correct mid-section, it'd fit just right with the design idea drawings/HST based look.e5GDtg1.png(Cacteye solar panels for the look, not what I plan on using since they don't fit in the fairing)

    I believe the VS-11 from Scansat is slightly underscaled if you are trying to use it as a straight KH-11 kitbash.  When I do KH-11 I upscale it (with tweakscale) so it is flush with the KH-9 avionics/fairing thing.  But otherwise, I believe that is pretty accurate. Especially considering KH-11's service module is just an upgraded version of KH-9's. I actually made the all texture gray variant for the KH-9 SM to be sort of like KH-11.

    [1.12.5] Bluedog Design Bureau - Stockalike Saturn, Apollo, and more! (v1.13.0 "Забытый" 13/Aug/2023)

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    Posted · Edited by Invaderchaos

    On 3/28/2021 at 2:00 PM, CobaltWolf said:

    No plans to do LSAM. Yeah, as I said a couple pages back, I don't watch FAM and I don't know how plausible the designs of the LSAM and Jamestown are from a performance perspective.

    I'd like to do some LM variants, but won't promise any for the first release here. The old LM parts had a lot of issues, and couldn't really be used as a basis for variants. I'm trying to avoid that issue this time around.

    In terms of simple texture switches, I am pretty sure at minimum a silver foil variant would be quite simple to do, as once the gold foil texture is figured out, it can easily be modified to be silver.  Beyond that though I can't think of many variants for the LM.

    [1.12.5] Bluedog Design Bureau - Stockalike Saturn, Apollo, and more! (v1.13.0 "Забытый" 13/Aug/2023)

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    7 hours ago, biohazard15 said:

    Request: Boeing\Hughes HS 376 satellite bus

    Last couple of days, I've been trying to make a good-looking replica of TACSAT 1 - prototype military commsat launched in 1969. It used Hughes HS 308 satellite bus - a cylinder 2.8m in diameter, covered with solar panels. Think BIG Pioneer 6 (without motor, although it was added in later HS series buses). While "cylinder" part is not a problem, "covered with solar panels" is. Curved solar panels are extremely rare feature in KSP mods - I know only of NFElectrical, and these are too big for KSP-scaled HS-308 (should be either 1.25m or 1.5m).

    Thus, I humbly request several parts which can be used to make a HS-series cylindrical satellite buses. Mainly HS 376 (since it has some notable and fun features).

    Suggested parts:

    - Probe core: 1.25m diameter, cylinder about 0.5m height, gray color. SAS, reaction wheels, about 40 Ec.  Has built-in RCS with tiny monoprop supply.

    - Equipment bay: Same dimensions as probe core, covered with solar panels, empty shell with toggleable endcaps. You can place anything you want in it, including other probe cores (to make pre-376 buses). Make a sandwich with probe core to make HS 376 main body. Toggleable node for telescopical solar panel (see below).

    - Telescopical solar panel: No, I'm not kidding.  Diameter slightly larger than 1.25m (to accomodate satellite main body). Height of about 1.5m, attaches to aforementioned toggleable node.

     

    EDIT: Sorry, pasted wrong link (that particular page can be accessed only via Wayback Machine). Fixed.

    Maybe one day something like that would be fun to do down the line. I made an HS-376 with a lot of tweakscale and offset tool with NFElectrical and NFEX in the past. It looked and worked mostly well (until the robotics would cause the craft to rip itself apart from time to time). 

    [1.12.5] Bluedog Design Bureau - Stockalike Saturn, Apollo, and more! (v1.13.0 "Забытый" 13/Aug/2023)

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    3 minutes ago, KeaKaka said:

    It's a something, but what kind of something?

    Clementine, a very underrated 90's lunar orbiter. One of the few payloads to launch on the Titan 23G rocket. I am also ISAS (not shown in the previous picture), the Clementine Interstage Adapter Satellite,  an adapter fixed to Clementine's Star-37. After the Star-37 was used to push Clementine to trans-lunar injection, the detached ISAS adapter functioned as its own independent satellite equipped with antennas, solar cells, and a few experiments. Clementine has quite a few different types of imaging experiments, as a primary part of its mission was to test sensor technologies designed by the Strategic Defense Initiative. Clementine was equipped with UV, IR, visual, and LIDAR imaging. After its Lunar mission was completed, Clementine was also supposed to preform a flyby on Geographos, a near-Earth asteroid, but this was never realized due because a malfunction caused Clementine to lose all of its propellant shortly before leaving Lunar orbit. Despite this, Clementine was a very successful mission.
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    [1.11.x] Shuttle Orbiter Construction Kit RECOLORED (Version 1.3)

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    On 2/28/2021 at 6:22 PM, pTrevTrevs said:

    Suggestion (if it hasn't been mentioned/implemented already): Add an option to display the Orbiter's name on the corner of the payload bay doors, like Enterprise and Columbia had in their earlier days.

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    Interesting idea, but I don't know about adding specific names to textures as it would limit the texture's uses for shuttles that don't use that name. However, I recommend the mod Conformal Decals as I believe it could easily accomplish this.

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