[1.12.5] Bluedog Design Bureau - Stockalike Saturn, Apollo, and more! (v1.13.0 "Забытый" 13/Aug/2023)

[GoldForest]

16 minutes ago, CobaltWolf said:

Yeah we meant to include that in the release and just forgot. @Invaderchaosis on it, I'm sure.

Would it be possible to get white RCS, white docking light and white EVA light as well?

[Doc Shaftoe]

2 hours ago, CobaltWolf said:

 

So that's what science looks like! My god, I've had it all wrong!

[chaos113]

2 hours ago, CobaltWolf said:

I mean, I'm not opposed but idk what it would look like. The couple times I've made a cupola with circular windows I didn't care for it very much.

perhaps an apollo capsule but with larger side windows and an elongated front dome 

[Pudgemountain]

The Apollo lander Proserpina has docked with Bradbury and once Bradbury gets resupplied it and a crew is launched, Bradbury will be ready for a manned Ceres mission. It's first manned interplanetary mission.

I will still either refer the lander as Apollo or Lunar Landers since trying to think of a name for Ceres and other Moons will dwindle my sanity.

 

[Friznit]

14 minutes ago, Pudgemountain said:

The Apollo lander Proserpina has docked with Bradbury and once Bradbury gets resupplied it and a crew is launched, Bradbury will be ready for a manned Ceres mission. It's first manned interplanetary mission.

I will still either refer the lander as Apollo or Lunar Landers since trying to think of a name for Ceres and other Moons will dwindle my sanity.

 

Cerebral Lander?

[brspies]

21 minutes ago, Pudgemountain said:

 

I will still either refer the lander as Apollo or Lunar Landers since trying to think of a name for Ceres and other Moons will dwindle my sanity.

 

Well, The Expanse gave us beltalowda so why not Beltalanda?

Edited May 26, 2022 by brspies

[Pudgemountain]

7 minutes ago, Friznit said:

Cerebral Lander?

I like it.

[Pudgemountain]

16 minutes ago, brspies said:

Well, The Expanse gave us beltalowda so why not Beltalanda?

I also like it, these are good names.

[MashAndBangers]

This could be us, but you [only a plan].

[bigyihsuan]

4 minutes ago, MashAndBangers said:

This could be us, but you [only a plan].

why

And what is that part on the very bottom og the image? A robotics hinge? A mini docking port?

[Aelfhe1m]

4 minutes ago, bigyihsuan said:

why

And what is that part on the very bottom og the image? A robotics hinge? A mini docking port?

There was a "lab" concept for Mercury created by McDonnell Aircraft with two variants - an inflatable tunnel connection to the lab or a hinge to swing the capsule around to dock to the side of the lab:

 

Images from: https://www.spaceflighthistories.com/post/mercury-laboratory-the-one-man-space-station-of-1960

[OrdinaryKerman]

8 minutes ago, bigyihsuan said:

why

And what is that part on the very bottom og the image? A robotics hinge? A mini docking port?

Looks like 2 of the small G-00 small hinges stuck together, forming a very short arm

Edited May 26, 2022 by OrdinaryKerman

[ballisticfox0]

Skylab!  (or should we call it Moonlab!)

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[chaos113]

9 minutes ago, ballisticfox0 said:

Skylab!  (or should we call it Moonlab!)

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scoonlab

[pTrevTrevs]

2 hours ago, ballisticfox0 said:

Skylab!  (or should we call it Moonlab!)

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The lunar terrain in those images looks nicer than it has any right to look.

Edited May 27, 2022 by pTrevTrevs

[Pudgemountain]

Bradbury and Proserpina has arrived at Ceres, Billyboton and Kaisku Kerman are excited.

The next pictures will be marked as spoiler so I wont fill too much space plus, at that time I was testing out different filters ^^;

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Unfortunately due to location of the lander they had to land in the dark.

The Rover came separately though unfortunately a certain engineer (Looking at you Bill) miscalculated Ceres' gravity and it drove like it was on pure ice so it was a glorified shelter.

After daybreak Billy Bobton Kerman became the first Kerbal on another celestial body. (This is when I tried different filters.)

Appearntly Mission Control wanted to see how bananas will do on the surface of Ceres and how will it react to being whacked by a hammer.

It's hard to tell in the next picture of Kaisku with the render but ingame due to DOE I was able to spot a little star flying around which in reality was the Bradbury orbiting all by itself with no crew.

Liftoff!

Funny it looks like I am taking off from the Moon but it's actually Ceres. The Apollo Lunar Lander is OP for Ceres wheras a Gemini lander would've been perfect however. 1: Shadowworks Orion capsule has a capacity of 6 and just bringing one Kerbal seems like a waste of ingame money. 2: The Apollo equipment has storage space for equipment, I may not have BG but I still have some parts like repair kits and EVA science.

Do I recommend taking an Apollo Lunar Lander to Ceres which looks like the Moon.......Yes it actually is very fun jumping around and exploring Ceres.

[MashAndBangers]

I wasn't completely satisfied with my previous choice for the docking port for Mercury Lab, so I lego'd a new design.

Apollo female docking port with a resized cap from BDB

Edited May 28, 2022 by MashAndBangers

[Kasyan]

On 5/25/2022 at 11:21 PM, JustDark said:

 

From page 154 of this document, the whole thing is in Russian though so that might make some things difficult. The document has all sorts of images and information which could be handy

http://spaceresearch.ssau.ru/doc/materials/Карфидов - Том 2. Космонавтика США.pdf

 

Hi, just found this thread. I'm Russian, so if this is still relevant, I can assist with translating a portion of the article.

[Galileo chiu]

10 hours ago, MashAndBangers said:

I wasn't completely satisfied with the docking port for Mercury Lab, so I lego'd a new design.

Apollo female docking port with a resized cap from BDB

there's a docking port for the mercury station?

[Starhelperdude]

4 hours ago, Galileo chiu said:

there's a docking port for the mercury station?

[MashAndBangers]

30 minutes ago, Starhelperdude said:

They got confused cause I said, "I wasn't completely satisfied with the docking port for Mercury Lab, so I lego'd a new design. "  I edited the post for clarity.

Edited May 28, 2022 by MashAndBangers

[Galileo chiu]

29 minutes ago, MashAndBangers said:

They got confused cause I said, "I wasn't completely satisfied with the docking port for Mercury Lab, so I lego'd a new design. "  I edited the post for clarity.

ah thank you

[ballisticfox0]

[GoldForest]

2 hours ago, ballisticfox0 said:

I thought this was real, but then I realized it has both its wings.

[Pappystein]

For what it is worth, I did a PR last week for fixing the RL10B-3 as well as fixing some minor tweaks to bring into line with performance documents directly from Pratt and Whitney on the RL10 family.   Also the Real Name names were corrected to proper nomenclature  deleting extraneous hyphens (there should only be hyphens after the Letter A or B not anywhere before them.)