Technical Ben Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Wow. Amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat Uranium Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 If anyone does make an RCS version of this, they should include the decoupler in the middle of the service module and the de-orbit solid rockets contained within. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tosh Posted January 16, 2012 Author Share Posted January 16, 2012 Thanks everyone I\'d rather have rcs and a orbital engine. Using rcs to stabilize orbits is a pain. If anyone does make an RCS version of this, they should include the decoupler in the middle of the service module and the de-orbit solid rockets contained within.Such a stack containing just everything (RCS thrusters/tank, solid rockets or LFE, decouplers and stuff) wouldn\'t be easy to assemble. Imagine 6-7 thin disks in the VAB panel looking just the same, with no means to tell which is which without mousing over and reading description.So it\'s either RCS without retro-rockets, or LFT/LFE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comando222 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Great work on this, one of the best capsules for me so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigibro606 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 What the f*ck? I don\'t even know how to describe this epicness. Tosh, you are now on my respected list. +1 to you!^This.WHOOPALOOPWe now have Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Orion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cepheus Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 We now have Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Orion.Orion? Who? What? When? Where? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aryeon Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 holly belony kerbal thats one sexy space craft 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibb31 Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Gemini is my favorite spacecraft... it had a real cockpit with ejection seats. It ultimately would have landed on skids with the parasail wing, like a mini-space-plane.http://youtu.be/jub8y6WSI8MWell, you see what you can do next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tosh Posted January 16, 2012 Author Share Posted January 16, 2012 Gemini is my favorite spacecraft... it had a real cockpit with ejection seats. It ultimately would have landed on skids with the parasail wing, like a mini-space-plane.Well, you see what you can do next Deployable wings ain\'t implemented in the game . So I\'ll be doing some other stuff)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabyalufix Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Gorgeous work, sir tosh. Love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim_Barrett Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Ah this is beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sbowyer28 Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Ive been waiting Kerbus knows how long or this add-on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toomtoomX Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Are you a Kerbin God/Goddess??????I\'ve never seen such a craft that combines sexiness and complexity at the same time!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOOMH Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Finally my Titan II will be perfect! Great system worked great fro achieving a 360 by 350 orbit then launching to the moon(which I miss timed by ever so slightly) has a ton of fuel on board for oribtal activites plus I love that gemini looks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigibro606 Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Orion? Who? What? When? Where?Intrepid pack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoDamitt Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 We now have Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Orion. Apollo? I know of King Tramp\'s Saturn V, Haven\'t seen any Apollo spacecraft tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibb31 Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Deployable wings ain\'t implemented in the game . So I\'ll be doing some other stuff))You could make it as a deployable side-mounted parachute...But yeah, to be perfect, it would also need deployable skids... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairtonybeta Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Absolutely love this model. Love it!!!Couple of things. Commenters have said that if you added rcs, it would mean that the ship would be composed of to many small disks. But you could made the engine a bolt-on engine, like most other engines, with no addition to structural shape. That would free up one stage, which could be replaced by a rcs tank. And then get the overhanging dummy rcs jets on the decoupler to be radially attached rcs jets. Then there would be no more disks added. I hope I explained myself there. It\'s hard to describe the engine bolt-on thingy I\'m thinking of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CardBoardBoxProcessor Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 yeah i don;t see why it would be too difficult to take off the RCS blocks form the decoupler and jsut make them radial attach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC3craze Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Shouldn\'t be hard at all really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairtonybeta Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 The people have spoken!!! It shall be done!!! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tosh Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 -snip- Commenters have said that if you added rcs, it would mean that the ship would be composed of to many small disks. -snip-To be exact it was I who have said that yeah i don;t see why it would be too difficult to take off the RCS blocks form the decoupler and jsut make them radial attach.*Sigh* attaching a box to a cone will require quite a mess with node_colliders. And attachable RCS modules I\'ll have to create will not be compatible with anything else. Ah, damn it, these parts are already not compatible with anything but 1.75m tank 8)Well, O.K., I\'ll do it, after finishing with glider. It has waited for toooo long))Let\'s say, I\'ll begin working on RCS version... in two weeks. The version will contain: [li]chute,[/li][li]pod,[/li][li]decoupler without any boxes on its sides (different from the one in LFE version),[/li][li]ASAS,[/li][li]big RCS fuel tank with enough fuel to land on the Mun and get back,[/li][li]surface-mounted RCS thruster to be placed on decoupler with x4 symmetry. Roll control thrusters on equipment module will remain just a paintings,[/li][li]and a compact 1.75m decoupler to attach to NovaPunch tanks.[/li]There will be no LFE in this version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat Uranium Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 I don\'t see how you couldn\'t add the retros to that. The LFE becomes the ASAS, the LFT becomes the RCS tank, the ASAS becomes the solid retro, and then you have a thin decoupler (which can be shaved off the top of the tank). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tosh Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 I don\'t see how you couldn\'t add the retros to that.Let\'s say I don\'t want to do that. LFE or RCS versions are flexible and allow for many different usage scenarios, while solid retro is a single-task device: burn to reenter. Moreover, SRB cannot be neither switched off nor decoupled (it will just go on pushing the capsule), so to choose engine\'s parameters I\'ll need to know from what orbit are you reentering and where do you want to land (as did the real Gemini engineers). And woe to those who\'ll ignite that retro on some other orbit! 8) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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