[WIP] Stockalike West Germanic Rocketry

[Cattette]

West Germanic Rocketry

-- Development thread for the West Germanic Rocketry mod. --

I'd like to thank @DeltaDizzy and @DylanSemrau for teaching me the basics of Unity and KSP modding.

Introduction

The ultimate goal of this part pack is to introduce the often neglected rocket history of the large land mass between the US and Russia/USSR to KSP. Most of the parts in this mod will be based on old German and Austrian spacecraft - both real and imagined. While some of the adaptations will be more or less true to life in function and purpose, others will include a deal of artistic liberty to make it more practical in-game. The art-style takes heavy inspiration from the style of Tantares, so these part packs will likely fit together nicely. 

 

Planned Content:

• Noordung Space Station
• Friedrich Schmiedl's Mail Rocket (reusable)
• 3 Staged liquid fueled rocket based on the drawings of Johann Schmidlap
• Actually usable Zucker Rocket (maybe)
• Something based on the rocket from Frau im Mond (maybe)
• Some kind of simple early tech space capable manned vehicle. Either based on the Magdeburger Startgerät or the capsule drawn by Von Braun in this document

Mohr Rocket:

 

Roadmap page

Edited August 23, 2020 by Cattette

[DylanSemrau]

mmm tasty

[Sgt.Shutesie]

First

[Zarbon44]

Второй

[MotokiKuN]

Looking for more

[EStreetRockets]

Sehr gut!

[Damon]

Ahhhh, that's hot! That is hot

[Cheesecake]

Die heute fast vergessenen Raketen und Visionen. Super.

That`s great.

[Cattette]

A shroud! Has this sounding rocket become a potential second stage?!

Edited August 24, 2020 by Cattette

[Cattette]

Progress on the Pluto rocket. The Pluto can act as a liquid fueled first stage booster for the Mohr rocket to allow it to exit the atmosphere and return scientific readings. The plan is to also implement a sustainer stage for the Pluto rocket to allow it to ferry payloads to orbit. 

Note that the lower stage engine and fuel tank are seperate parts, i just didnt seperate them in Unity. 

 

Edited August 27, 2020 by Cattette
clarification

[Cattette]

The Royal and Imperial Post Office guarantees a timely and reliable continent-wide delivery service! This Rocket is based on the real-life mail rockets designed by Friedrich Schmiedl. The idea was to implement a speedy solution to delivering mail over the mountainous landscape of Southern Austria during the 1930s. Unfortunately, not a lot of the specifications of his designs survived the test of time. He personally destroyed a lot of them when the pedant military showed an interest in his rockets.

 

[hemeac]

I think that delivering mail via rockets is one of the most "Kerbal" things you could do :-)

Edited August 30, 2020 by hemeac

[Cattette]

I will be taking a hiatus my work on this mod in order to gain experience in another one.

[hemeac]

Looking forward to the next project

[Galileo chiu]

any updates?