AmateurAstronaut1969

Ah I see, yeah probably just stick the gear as part of the cockpit then

For the most part I think that’s all great, the X-15 is a really bespoke shape, so there isn’t crazy amounts of stuff you could do to make it usable in lots of situations It could be nice if you did the gear parts as depthmask parts, so they can be used on other stuff and still have the open gear bay, but if that’s not something you wanna do, then I would say keep it a part of the cockpit Also, since the shape is very particular, if you weren’t gonna do already, it would be nice to have nodes for all the stuff like gears and wings etc etc

ULA| Vulcan-Centaur CERT-1 | 24th December 2023 After almost a decade since first being announced, Vulcan Centaur awaits it's Debut flight. Vulcan Centaur is the direct successor to ULA's workhorse, the Atlas V, and hopes to see ULA into a new age of Spaceflight, aswell as being a major part of the Artemis Program CERT-1 aims to test many new elements such as: - GEM-63XL solid rocket motors - Centaur V high energy upper stage - Blue Origin's BE-4 LNG/LOX engines Eventually ULA plans to upgrade Vulcan to allow it's BE-4 engines to be recoverable, via a system called SMART Reuse, however, this is not a part of CERT-1's mission goals The payload for CERT-1 is Astrobotic's Peregrine lunar lander, which will be the first spacecraft to fly in NASA's CLPS program, aiming to develop a set of small-medium sized landers that can eventually be utilised for the Artemis Program, to deliver experiments and hardware to crews on the surface. For this mission, Peregrine will carry a diverse suite of scientific instruments, technologies, mementos, and other payloads from six different countries, dozens of science teams, and hundreds of individuals. In mission control, Vulcan passes through all its launch checks and prepares to launch... ''...3, 2, 1...We have ignition...'' ''...and LIFTOFF of United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur Rocket'' ''Godspeed Vulcan!'' ''One minute in...everything looking good...'' ''Vehicle is now...4 miles in altitude, uh, 3 miles downrange'' ''Mach One...Vehicle is now supersonic'' ''...uh, Max-Q, thats maximum pressure'' ''BE-4s performing nominally, engine response looking good, standing by for SRB burnout'' ''uh, and we have Indication of separation of both SRBs at a hundred seconds into flight'' ''Standing by for fairing jettison'' ''BE-4's now throttling to maintain a constant 4.6g acceleration limit until BECO'' ''Centaur has begun the boost phase chilldown sequence to thermally condition the RL10s for operation'' ''We have BECO, booster engine cutoff... and we have uh stage separation...and good prestart on the RL10s'' ''This is Vulcan mission control at T+5 minutes into today's flight. We just heard our launch commentator confirm the succesful completion of the early phase of CERT-1, and all systems continue to operate nominally. The next major event, Centaur MECO-1 should occur in about twelve minutes'' ''Still seeing good performance out of the RL10s and RCS system'' ''Standing by for MECO in about ten seconds'' ''MECO achieved, Centaur is in Orbit!'' About an hour later, Centaur prepares to perform its TLI burn ''Nominal start from the RL10s'' ''MECO-2 achieved, standby for spacecraft sep'' ''Successful separation confirmed, Peregine is now on course to reach the Moon'' With CERT-1 a success, Vulcan has proven itself to be worthy of carrying on the legacy of Atlas, and will hopefully be a workhorse of the Artemis Program! NEXT MISSION: CLPS Recap 01 Note: CLPS missions will be rather frequent due to the sheer amount of them. Due to that, we've made the descision to condense them into short summary posts. The first one will consist of Peregrine's landing and the first 2 NOVA-C missions, due to them all taking place in Q1 2023.

Nooglin <3

Took a little break but should be back on track now...

Boeing ULV poster

Cheers man!!

Thanks man The moon is from KSRSS reborn, which recently got 16k textures. It does have a 64k addon for earth moon and mars, but I didn’t manage to get that working

NASA | Artemis 1 | 16th November 2022 A mission 12 years in the making, the Space Launch System finally prepares to launch. Marking the beginning of a new era of Spaceflight, Artemis 1 will be an all up test of the SLS rocket and it's Orion spacecraft. SLS will launch from the newly refurbished LC-39B, from Mobile Launcher 1, another remnant of the Constellation program. Standing at 98m tall, the SLS consists of the booster stage, a set of extended RSRBs, salvaged from the Shuttle program, a core stage, somewhat derived from the Shuttle's External Tank, and the Interim Cryogenic Upper Stage (ICPS), adapted from the Delta IV. This is the SLS Block 1. However, as the upper stage describes, Block 1 is only Interim - Due to budgetary concerns, it's designed as a stopgap before much more evolved configurations SLS. Despite this, it's designed for one job: Sending Orion to the Moon. At the very top of SLS is Orion, NASA's deep space Spacecraft, designed with the most important element in mind - The Astronauts. It's made of 3 major parts; The Crew Module (CM), the European Service Module (ESM) and the Launch Abort System (LAS). Artemis 1 will launch uncrewed, with the first crewed flight following 2 years later. ''...and here we go. Hydrogen burn-off ignitors initiated 7 6 5 Core stage engines start... 3 2 1... Boosters ignijition! And liftoff of Artemis 1!'' ''We rise together, back to the Moon and Beyond!'' ''All 4 RS-25 engines on the core stage and 2 solid rocket boosters now propelling the vehicle at 128mph...now 30s into the flight of Artemis 1'' SLS ascends into the Heavens and begins a new chapter in Human spaceflight. ''Confirmation that the Solid Rocket Boosters have separated'' Orion sheds its ESM fairings and LAS shroud Core stage shut-off and ICPS separation. Arriving in an eccentric low earth orbit, Orion deploys it's solar panels and begins to prepare for Trans-Lunar injection Orion begins TLI as it emerges into daylight Orion seperates from ICPS, leaving the upper stage to deploy its set of smallsats. 5 days later, Orion approaches the Moon Orion now ignites its OMS engine, to insert it into an eliptical Lunar Orbit At its Apalune, Orion circularises, inserting itself into Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) After half an orbit in DRO, Orion fires retrograde to lower its Perilune, at which point it fires up it's OMS engine once again to send itself on a return trajectory towards Earth. Orion arrives at Earth and prepares for ESM separation Orion re-orients for reentry, approaching earth at 25,000mph Orion deploys it's parachutes to deccelerate all the way down to a safe 25mph ''From Tranquility base to Taurus Littrow to the Tranquil waters of the pacific, the latest chapter of NASA's journey to the moon comes to a close - Orion back on Earth!'' NASA's first step on the road to the Moon has been achieved... NEXT LAUNCH: Starship IFT-1

ARTEMIS 1 - Tomorrow!

Sorry for the delay to Artemis 1 everyone. I’m rather busy rn and it’s hard to find time to get stuff done, especially with problems with the crafts. Aiming to get A1 finished tomorrow and hopefully posting over the weekend

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On December 5th 2014, a Delta IV heavy rocket thundered into the skies above Cape Canaveral, carrying a prototype of NASA's new Orion spacecraft. The mission was a success, but behind the awe of the launch, NASA was in shambles: It was building a capsule with no intended use, and a rocket to launch it to nowhere! During this period, it was doubted if the Space Launch System would ever even fly, lest do anything of note. However, this was anything but a sign of things to come - In late 2017, the leftover elements of past programs such as Constellation and the Asteroid Redirect missions, were collated and reformed under a unified program, one which gave a goal and a future to Orion and SLS, one which would achieve NASA's 50 year objective of returning Humans to the Moon. It's name? The Project In this Project, me and @Jacktical are aiming to recreate all the past present and future Artemis missions, Including: - NASA launches - Commercial partner launches - International partner launches - And more We are hoping to keep this semi-realistic, with the initial Artemis missions playing out as is currently planned by NASA, with later missions coming (hopefully) our own interpretations and hopes for the future of Human Spaceflight Posts should be regular enough, but we aren't gonna make a strict schedule for it It's time to return to the Moon! NEXT LAUNCH: CAPSTONE

Big things are coming, anyone who liked this thread back in the day...keep your eyes open

AYY GLAD TO HEAR!

Do you think you could include an option to toggle the flags on the core stage? It's always had it, but the latest dev build (Soot) doesn't have it. I'm assuming that's to do with adding the soot though

1. I hacked up SSTU to only have the bits I want, maybe it shipped the AVC with it, will delete it now 2. Friend of mine made a private config for an expendable Starship whilst SEP worked on the proper one. It's obsolete now, but it was called ''Expendable''. My Gamedata is full of random configs and personal/private part edits and stuff like that, so if you see random stuff I wouldn't worry. Tbf I should probably go on a big reinstall of all my mods, some have been there since I first downloaded them haha

Ah yeah that's unfortunate. For me and the people with the engine problem, 1.12 doesn't work. It crashes the whole game when we try to load a craft into game. I even tried a new install and it didn't work. Thanks for the help anyways PS. I'll have a look at those errors haha

@SofieBrink Did you manage to look at the log and see if anything was wrong?

https://www.dropbox.com/s/19t3v125wu36kyu/KSP.log?dl=0 Hopefully that should be it

Alright, what do you want me to do? Should I boot the game with just SEP and it's dependencies or something like that?

It hasn't fixed anything unfortunately. The full stack TWR is still 0.11. I've also tried opening a craft file made by a friend who's Starship works, but the TWR is still broken for me. It's weird because it must be the thrust on the cluster, as the other engines in the mod work fine

I'll try download that then, thanks