ModZero

Unless Nothke answers, and without testing (it's late here), I'm going to suggest trying out replacing the Firespitter plugin with the one released today.

The kit is a part of Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering Laboratory course, it includes: The kit will cost money, apparently, so no magical free stuff (and Matlab is only temporary - first shot free!), but I still hope it will be available for the people on the other side of the pond.

There’s also quite a few students (an upcoming Coursera course will also include free or cheap Matlab access, btw). Furthermore there’s clones, so Matlab scripts are also useful for reference for people willing to roll their own in something else. Also, KSP Trajectory Optimization Tool is an MCR based utility.

Yes please. Especially if you have some atmospheric descent/ascent related things, esp. with FAR, which I'd love to even just read.

I would actually expect the command to be like "hey, the next x bytes is something you should store in this location, then execute it", followed by x bytes of hopefully meaningful bytes. If you have ridiculous latency, you design for ridiculous latency by limiting round-trips. So "real" would be more like: at time x upload starts, at x+60 the probe starts receiving and processing the upload, at x + 60 + (size/bandwidth) the uploaded code starts running, hits the first malformed construct (redundancy and checksums are not the kerbal way) and the probe spontaneously disassembles.

In kwtech.cfg, you refer to advMetalWorks instead of advMetalworks, which ends up completely dropping a bunch of extra-large parts from the tree.

Star Citizen is a bit on the shady side. I mean, I backed it, because whatever, I could, and I'd like to see it, but I fully expect a spectacular fiasco. A Vegas con is just too much.

Unmanned permanent probe: gives you a trickle of science, in beginning a generous one, transmitting stored data when the power supply is high enough for transmission + a bit above that. The trickle is deteriorating (how fast depending on the device/location), effectively draining the experiment and removing the current click-fest that is probing. Manned space station: a set of Kerbals gives you a trickle of science, like the probe, but after they wear off, you can replace the Kerbals with new ones for a new (a bit smaller) trickle. Also, add "data storage" and "materials storage" modules that you can transfer your results into, for deorbiting/later transmission - then when a ship arrives, it can pick up materials for research on the ground. A station will, in time, become obsolete, but that makes sense. Mir spent 15 years in space, ISS is planned to do 22 years total (but there's some plans to reuse its sections etc).