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Thanks - I love it when people get it :-)

I had the same problem - it's mentioned earlier in the thread. The solution seems to be to activate the engines via staging before trying to activate the reactors via the right click menu.

I did some more science and it looks like your guess is right. I launched a 3 man pod with two radial parachutes and two girders sticking out on either side. If the parachutes were on the ends of the girders, it fell at the predicted 7.7 m/s. In that position they were clear of each other and only partially overlapped the pod. If they were on the pod terminal velocity was 9 m/s. So the pod is occluding the parachutes, and they might be occluding each other. So my calculation isn't too far wrong - I could even calculate the correct value for a simple pod under a single parachute, maybe, as I

The drag cube data is in physics.cfg - they look like this: PART { url = Squad/Parts/Utility/parachuteMk16-XL/parachuteMk16-XL/parachuteLarge DRAG_CUBE { cube = PACKED, 0.6278962,0.6383756,0.7139156, 0.6278962,0.6383814,0.7139156, 1.108058,0.7323978,0.6995487, 1.108058,0.9454046,0.1663975, 0.6278962,0.639505,0.7139157, 0.6278962,0.6373008,0.7139157, 0,0.2645478,0, 1.233453,0.6659461,1.233453 cube = SEMIDEPLOYED, 16.39305,0.5255063,1.822568, 16.39305,0.5255054,1.822568, 9.336478,0.1339835,18.06131, 9.336478,0.1646374,18.50363, 16.39305,0.5256646,1.822569, 16.39305,0.5253168

Hi, So, I'm trying to create a spreadsheet to calculate terminal velocity for pods and stuff coming in to land using just parachutes. My calculations aren't working and I need some help from anyone who knows this stuff. I'm starting with the drag equation: F{D}=0.5 ÃÂ v^2 C A Assuming drag equals the force from gravity and rearranging appropriately, I get: V{term} = sqrt( 2 M g / ÃÂ C A) where V{term} is terminal velocity M is vehicle mass in kg g is local gravity ÃÂ is local air density C is surface area A is drag coefficient The drag of a given craft is potentially quite complex, given tip,

That's one good looking ship - I'm definitely borrowing those drive pods when I get back to building airbreathers. I don't know if it's modelled in KSP, I guess not, but closed wings like that also eliminate wing tip drag, which is non-trivial.

Thoroughness - I appreciate that.

I finally finished sending probes to orbit every moon and planet and measure everything's gravitational parameters. Only took me 1,988 hours. Right, now to send some landers.

Very nice. I sometimes use 2m Kerbin Departure Stages for 1m probes. To keep things looking good and aerodynamic I have to use radial engines for them, as the Poodle is too heavy and the 1m or 0.5m engines just look stupid. But your 2m lander tank would be ideal for that. Nice one.

Randazzo's heat management mod has a 3.75m mullioned heatsink for four standard LV-Ns too.

Just wanted to say that I too think Kosmos SSPP is a great mod, in fact one of my must haves. It's just full of best in class parts - I'm thinking of obvious things like the RCS propulsion units and tanks and the Balka solar panels, but also easily overlooked gems like the LED lamps, which are perfect. If it's not going forward, that's a real shame - but thank you CBBP for a great mod.

:-) Great work with the nuclear tanks - something like that should have been included in KSP 1.0, I guess. Although I'm not going to give SQUAD too hard a time given all the other cool toys they've sent us. But anyway - I really like the ones you've made, just the job for my surveyor fleet. Thanks!

Well that's fantastic news. Have you considered matching nosecones for the 1.25m ones - something the same shape as the Type B advanced nosecone would look great.

Likewise - I still get 0.24.2 when I redownload the Mac version from Steam

Fantastic - I've been hoping someone would have a go at the Rombus or one of Phil Bono's other SSTO concepts. I'd be happy to help test it or look over your numbers :-)