cube sats?

[crisisalsam]

do you know of any mods with cube sats and cube sat dispencers? i have been looking for one for a while and have yet to find one. thank you!

[Gargamel]

Moved to Add-on discussion. 

[Pikapolar]

Maybe this one?:

https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/193010-110-luciole-121/

[crisisalsam]

On 7/15/2020 at 6:34 AM, Pikapolar said:

Maybe this one?:

https://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/193010-110-luciole-121/

just what i was looking for thank you!

[SpaceGreer]

That's a great mod.

[DeadJohn]

Coatl, already mentioned above, is great.

Also consider SSR (Squiggsy Space Research). It has a 0.35m probe core plus tiny engines, solar panels, and antennas. There are also some 0.625m parts to help get it into orbit. The thread title says 1.5.* but the thread content says there's a 1.10 update.

 

 

Edited July 20, 2020 by DeadJohn

[linuxgurugamer]

Also Octosat

[jimmymcgoochie]

For a properly tiny cube sat, Luciole is good- there are two little self-contained cubesats (one of which is triangular ) plus the decouplers and structural frames you need to launch them in clusters; admittedly they don't do much when in space but a bit of config bodging could make them into low-budget low orbit relays for global communications. This mod also features a lot of small but beautiful 0.625m parts and is worth looking at if you like building small or on a budget.

There's also the nano-sat from Knes which has a built-in decoupler and is otherwise pretty similar to the Luciole cubesat in size and function. It also gives you the solar panels as a separate part for the times when you need a teeny tiny amount of extra power. Knes is basically the European counterpart to BDB/Tantares as it replicates many of the past and present European rockets, so it's quite parts heavy, but you can delete parts if you don't want them and just keep those you do.

The SSR micro-sat is the next smallest I can think of and has a nicely rounded set of parts- direct and relay antennae, solar panels, battery, RTG and both chemical and ion propulsion systems. It also has a nice little tie-in with Near Future Electrical where you get a tiny capacitor, and a tie-in with Near Future Propulsion where you get a little argon tank to match the xenon one. The only thing it doesn't have is an adapter from the 0.35m size to the standard 0.625m 'small' size; it has one between the octagonal ion fuel tanks and the other square parts though.

OctoSat is also worth a mention, it's a very modular way to build octagonal satellites with a diverse range of parts. Fairly low mass, a selection of propulsion systems and very configurable fuel tanks make it a good option for making compact probes and has an adapter to mount it on a 1.25m stack; a bit bigger than the others but still smaller and more capable than building something similar out of stock parts. They unlock late in the tech tree though and can result in fairly high part counts due to its modularity.

Below is not strictly on topic as it's not about cube sats but probes in a more general sense.

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For something a bit bigger, ProbesPlus gives you a lot of good parts at low prices (in career mode) which are designed to replicate real spacecraft like Voyager, Venera and Cassini-Huygens among others. It also includes new science parts and some engines/service modules and RCS systems too. They are quite large though so definitely not "cube sats", although the Barquetta is slightly smaller than the stock QBE and has built-in RCS so that's a good one to pick for small probes and relays.

Other mods that are good for probes include: Near Future Exploration, which adds a lot of useful parts and a novel range boosting system for comms parts, but is designed to look like other Near Future parts and Restock (all made by the same person) so doesn't fit in so well with the regular stock parts; RLA Reborn, which adds a number of probe-related parts plus some bigger ones and which fits right in with the stock art style (but not the Restock style); and Restock+ which is an optional extra for Restock that adds extra parts to plug some gaps in the stock parts lineup- a full set of Oscar fuel tanks, mini RTG, 0.625m RGU and tiny landing legs are some that suit probes the best.

 

The best advice I can give you is to try them and see which you like most or which work best in the role you want to use them.