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Hmmm... Do you think Saturn MLV-V-23 (L) can handle this? (Keep in mind I play on 2.5x) And before anyone asks why I need 45 T of comm range... uh... I know, I realistically don't NEED to communicate with the probe, especially in sandbox, but just for laughs, I want to be able to communicate with it. Hmm... now the only question is do I send the comm station after Pioneer 13 or just leave it in orbit around the sun. As a side note, apparently Kerbol is REALLY luminous... I mean, 1241 Gm away and it is still as bright as if you were on Kerbin basically.

It's not. Speaking of Mariner, @Rodger Got a request. The Mariner 2 solar panels have a base version and an extended version, both supply the same amount of EC. Could we get a little more EC out of the extended version? The base EC for the Mariner 2 default is 0.4. I think 0.5 for the extended version makes sense. The default version is made up of 4 segments while the extended is 5 segments. 0.1 EC per segment.

X-15 Delta SCRAM launched aboard a Castor Boosted Juno. Full album: Imgur: The magic of the Internet (Burn baby burn! Disco inferno!) (The world is pretty peaceful up at 76,000 meters.) Didn't make it to Sandy Island... oh well. I'm only 150 km away. They can launch S&R.

April 10th, 2030 Go Go Juice ESPIRIT Module Flown by Aardvark Orion and Shuttle-C ESPIRIT is launched aboard a shuttle-C, ESA contracting NASA for the launch. Ariane 6 will launch a NASA payload instead of ESPIRIT. (BTW, I'm trying to decide between which HLS to use. Starship HLS or Lockheed Martian HLS. Any thoughts?) Full album: Imgur: The magic of the Internet

Oh yeah. I did too. Forgot to report it.

They're red. The exact red, idk. But This is the latest photo I can find of Rassvet. I said they might be dulled a little because they've been sunbathing for a while, so might be more towards the pinkish side? I'm not sure. In this picture one of them looks pinkish and the other more orangeish? I'm a little color blind when it comes to red. I can see red and tell it's red, but different shades of red are difficult for me.

Rassvet's trunnions are still there and are still bright red. Well, maybe a little dull, but they definitely weren't removed. The other red bits, yeah.

Long boy Delta 7935. (Yes, I know 3 was used for Delta III, but if HOSS had been made, it would have been before Delta III and used RL-10 as well, but the A-4 (Or possibly A-N?) anyway, I'm stealing the 3 designation) Full album: Imgur: The magic of the Internet

Yeah, I can understand that.

Using Original F-1/F-1A instead of a modern F-1B/CW... cringe. lol, jk.

I noticed that bug too. Selecting a different fairing fixes it tho.

New teaser, since Shuttle-C 5m seems to not like my payload and explodes every time it goes to deploy... like, it's not even that big of a payload! You can clearly see it's nowhere near the walls! But the top shell keeps colliding somehow with the payload! Ugh...

@EStreetRockets I think there's a collision issue with the Shuttle-C 5m parts. It keeps exploding the payload inside. The payload I have is no more than 3.125m in diameter. When I got to separate the top shell, it constantly collides with the payload. As you can see the payload comes nowhere close to the walls.

Some teasers.

Oh right, they're the 'other' kind of solar power. As to why they stopped, probably hard to make it work in zero-g. On Earth, you can have the liquid fall using gravity, so you don't have to have multiple pumps running liquid both up and down the heating tower. In space you would need pumps to run the full loop. Another reason would probably be boil off. The gas would need to be topped off every few months via spacecraft supply, which wouldn't be hard mind you, just expensive. A final reason, and the most likely one, cost. The cost to ship up the materials, to teach cosmonauts how to weld and work with specialized tools to build this specialized machinery was probably too costly for their liking. I mean, sure, you could probably have launched it as one piece using Energia and some folding of the reflective dish, but again, costly.

February 12th, 2030 Leg Room Habitation Module Flown by Starship Super Heavy and Aardvark Orion The Lunar Gateway Habitation module joins LSISS. The Habitation was launched aboard Starship Super Heavy and was tugged by Aardvark Orion. Also, my pics will be darker in some shots from now on. I went and got Blackrack's Volumetric Clouds and am using their TUFX profile. Full album: Imgur: The magic of the Internet Yeah, hot staging didn't go so well... oops.

Switched out the HALO Module for a size accurate version. It uses Benjee's MMSEV logistics module.

And the big football field sized dish arrays.

@Beale I remember you saying either you would like to do Mir-2 or you were going to do Mir-2. The real one, not ETS one. Is that still on the table? Do you still plan to do it?

Fully fueled titan still has positive TWR. I always fully fuel my titans.

No drag with a hole in the fairing? Unrealistic, uninstalling! lol, jk. Great work on fixing that bug!

Just realized... we could probably kitbash Mir-2 from ETS with these new parts.

IIRC, the modules have a 0.9375m ring and a 1.25m ring built in. Edit, nevermind. I forgot the Module III only has 0.625 and the Module IV has 0.625 or 1.25. There is the 1.25 to 0.9375 mercury lab adapter though. Just use that. Yeah, it's in white, but we have white Apollo, so not a big deal imo.

They are, just irl getting in the way.

Did you install the Extra's folder? Specifically "Bluedog_DB_extras"? And is it in your gamedata folder or did you put it inside the Bluedog folder? The Bluedog_DB_extras folder should be in the KSP gamedata folder, as there are a few things inside the extra folder that need the specific folder hierarchy.