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  1. They’re telepathic! I was going to ask for this and even went as far as consulting 600-page NASA PDFs from 2009 for information. Guess it helps when you have stellar quality and can finish major milestones in a manner of a few weeks. That’s really fantastic that this is happening, especially since kitbashing the Copernicus has always been close but not quite right, in terms of mass. Looking forward to building out a Duna base, with all this and a few other projects I’ve been hearing about.
  2. I launched a small space station to LKO in order to test EVA construction (still the KIS kind, I'm still waiting for a while before I switch to 1.11). This is MASSIVLEY important to this career, as a kerballed Gilly landing I've designed is at the top of my priorities and I have 5 years from now to do it. Naturally, playing with Kerbalism, I'm going to have to send at least 1 unkerballed dress rehearsal before the real thing, so the timeline is actually very tight. This is also actually the first time I've shown this career here, I've had it for almost 3 months and am on year 22 in-game. Spoiler for lots of pictures.
  3. This whole MechJeb fiasco is my fault. I wrote the patch without testing it originally. Go ahead and make a PR on the GitHub, and I’m sure it’ll be merged. It’s been a little quiet from Hemeac recently, but I’m sure we’ll get back on track. As a side note, I would release an unofficial update to support CryoEnginesMethalox, but the whole hydro-methalox switch is so deeply ingrained into the internals of KTT that even I, probably the person with the 2nd most amount of knowledge with it in the world, have no idea. Until then, the engine placements are close enough. I could place them in the appropriate nodes if really needed.
  4. Sorry to spoil a surprise, but: Found on the GitHub repository in the Benjee10_shuttleOrbiter/parts/@thumbs directory... Pretty awesome update coming soon, I suppose!
  5. There’s a patch in the Extras folder included in the download that you’ll need to install. EDIT: that’s wrong. It should be working, as according to the GitHub repo the patch is included, requiring CryoTanks.
  6. Shame on you for not toggling the F1 insulation on! In all seriousness, I am speechless. This is really incredible, I can’t believe that I’ll get to play with it!
  7. It’s a remnant of old versions with references to depreciated engines, and does nothing. It should probably be removed now to prevent confusion, especially now that CryoEngines Methalox exists.
  8. Totally my fault that we don't have activity. My development mentality is always short bursts of activity, but after Winter holidays those short bursts last about 5 minutes, with weeks in between. I'll try to get something out just to improve on 0.2, but it won't be as complete as intended.
  9. Realism Overhaul comes with native configurations for this. Install both, and you’ll get your rescaled/ realistic launch pads.
  10. The mods causing the failure are Kerbalism and KerbalismConfig. The Saturn V parts are from Bluedog Design Bureau, if that’s what annoying.
  11. Somebody needs to confront them why their account picture is of Max Kerman- Fury Road. Also, congratulations on suggesting features for games since about 6 years before you were born!
  12. Not a particularly great render TBH. It falls into the uncanny valley of not being quite true to the real SN10 and having lots of effort put into it. The sky is clearly a stock image, the creator went WAY overboard on the engine flares in the first pic, and the rest of the vehicle just doesn’t look right.
  13. Can Blue Origin construct a habitat? Can SpaceX design and deliver science? Can ULA muster international support and be unpolitical and uncontroversial in its public view? NASA needs these contractors (FYI, that response of mine that was thoroughly dunked on was in reference to Orion-launching schemes, not regular cargo launches), and those contractors get a significant amount of business from NASA.
  14. They probably have a little bit of colony dev, but not much. I would assume that they are working on the Sabatier reactor and its power system, as they’re working to produce fuels at Boca Chica, and Shotwell made some offhand comment a while ago about how hard it was to get nuclear material for what I assume was at the time something similar to kilopower. Probably a good idea not to give SpaceX uranium.
  15. Year 1021, Day 24 Construction of the GLSSDR spacecraft (Gilly Landing Site Scout and Data Return) has begun in the KSA’s spacecraft assembly building. Shown above is the final design, which will be attached to a large 2 km/s dV hypergolic insertion stage, and finally mated to a Wyrm-4LC rocket for its transfer window in about a year. The spacecraft is designed to test orbital navigation around the Eve-Gilly system, land on Gilly, take samples of soil and dust, stabilize for 20 days of rest on the surface, return to orbit, and burn home with the collected samples. Most important for a crewed mission is the stabilization on the surface, as previous Gilly landers had serious problems remaining stationary after touchdown. Year 1021, Day 26 Coincidentally, another event important for the voyage takes place just a few days later. Kerbin Orbital Materials Sciences Station launches on a Wyrm-4LH rocket for a 203x197 km 0 degree Kerbin orbit. When deployed and met by crew a few days later, it will become the most advanced scientific laboratory in history, running experiments on protein crystals, micro-gee construction, robotic manipulation, materials exposure, as well as biological reactions to micro-gee and vacuum, well after the crew of the two scheduled visits leave. The results to those experiments along with fire-suppression, gas recycling, and other experiments meant to push the boundaries of a spaceship will be sent back to the ground in an integrated capsule. The two crew rotations will spend a total of more than a year in space, exceeding the previous record by several times. This will test the strain on a Kerbal’s body and all the other challenges that come with a multi-year mission in deep space. In approximately 2 days a Triton Block II with an extra consumables module in the fairing and three crew will launch on a Taranis-22 rocket to LKO and rendezvous with the station.
  16. @chateaudav Yep! Modded parts fail just fine as intended correctly ...
  17. Personally, I'm preparing my career save to send crew to Gilly within 5 years. Thread here, it's a bit empty as of now. The WDYDIKSPT is designing a Gilly orbiter/lander/sample return to evaluate the surface for suitability of crewed habitation between arrival and departure, and techniques of navigating into Gilly orbit.
  18. It appears to me that the cause for the explosion was inside the tank... Also, another shot at Starlink-17 in about 15 minutes. This one is launching into a different orbital inclination than was planned last window, because of “range conflicts” (according to NSF stream). Secondary window for a launch 2 hours after the now-planned T-0
  19. Waaaaait just one second... I remember these guys... https://gatewayspaceport.com/the-foundation/the-team/ https://orbitalassembly.com/about Same core group as that “nonprofit”, except they’ve done away with the ridiculous idea of a lottery and funding by citizens and are now marketing it as a space hotel. They’ve even made a third website just for their station. Mind you, these aren’t “different websites”- they have literally reused the same banner and concept art- but just three different ways of dressing up this poorly designed and thought-out piece of coal into a diamond. TL;DR: headed by the same people that ran a “nonprofit” scam using the same concept.
  20. It’s a minute difference. What more could go wrong, technologically, to prevent Artemis-1 launch within the internal (IIRC Jan 2022) calendar? The problem with the engines that presented itself at GR-8 is of no importance to a flight, and the LOX valve issue should be fixed any day now. (On a related note, an RS-25 engineer I’ve talked to mentioned another small problem with the LH2 manifold [again, IIRC] which was fixed on the stand and was of no detriment to the engines.)
  21. Unfortunately I have even less chance at getting a ride- although I am decently talented in the musical arts (nothing too special), I’m out on grounds of my periodic heart arrhythmia. So a no for deep space or probably even orbit, but I suspect Blue would take me.
  22. Not to mention that SLS is the only rocket that can launch the only BLEO crewed spacecraft to a useful orbit. Waiting for Starship to become crew-rated (~ 10 years) is hairbrained, as are the commercial “replacements” on Falcon Heavy / Delta IV Heavy that require deceptively large amounts of development when SLS is ready for use save a few logistical delays.
  23. 1020-273: The Kerbal Space Administration of Cape Town has submitted a formal budget request of the MacKerman parliament for an ambitious plan to follow up on their successful and still ongoing Triton landings on the Mun and Minmus. Says director-general Cernan MacKerman, “The completion of the first round of kerballed landings has allowed the technology to catch up. Using this the plan is to test long-term habitation in space with a visit to Gilly, as well as gather important scientific information to share with the space international group.” Critics of the plan and Cernan’s abandonment of first-generation Triton landings say that the wide reaching plan is trying to do too much, too quickly, and not for enough scientific gain. Amberger Kerman, a science journalist and leading skeptic, claims that the plans involve “both too much legacy hardware and too many new components. They threw out the stuff [Triton first-generation] that was working well, and want to replace it with equipment that have never been tested.” Many also express the opinion that the program cost too much, more than the barely acceptable Triton program, when that money could be used for safer, cheaper, and more investigative unkerballed craft, or just used on Kerbin instead of shot into space. Skeptics of the wide-reaching plan in the parliament that have expressed their opposition do not number enough to strike down the budget request. However, many are wary of Cernan’s decisions after the KSA decided to abandon Triton Munar landings in favor of service to Munar-orbiting space stations which will be supplied by a much-delayed Pegasus lander. Nonetheless, members of the scientific community and KSA are excited about the possibilities of this proposal.
  24. I think I’m the evil one. @JcoolTheShipbuilder
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