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It has been 12 weeks since the last update.

I got Mach 5.87 (2012 m/s) at between 35km to 40km. I launched X-15 on top of a Juno rocket.

Banned because i just lost north of 4,000,000 credits because of an alien attack. Stupid thargoids. Stupid caustic attack. Stellar data lost. Biological samples gone. I ban you for this. 022904242024

I know you're passionate about rovers, but would you be so kind to share what kind of slopes are you expecting to be able to conquer? Cuz from what I've seen, some people expect the rovers to climb slopes normally reachable by rock crawlers.

Sorry for a bit of a hiatus there, my cat pushed my server system at our home off its nice neat shelf and wrecked its old HDD, so I spent the last month or two in data recovery mode. Regarding Kopernicus: Next release will be dropping soon, and it will be mostly under the hood stuff to support upcoming features and maybe slightly improve performance. No new features on the stable build most of you use just yet, but... There will be a prerelease version as well testing some new requested features (not quite comfortable with mainlining them just yet). The most prominent one is a long requested backlogged feature that is a lil bit evil: land scatters that can kill kerbals! PS: Don't worry, this new feature is for planet pack creators and won't just randomly poof your kerbonauts out of nowhere. Old packs and packs without this new node will have the same friendly scatters as ever. I'm just adding commonly requested stuff, heh.

Playtesting is just testing by playing, to see if bugs appear while playing normally. What you describe is still QA testing, check if a specific thing result in the appropriate behavior. And they do both, either they missed that through playtest/qa testing (I didn’t even notice it until you pointed it out) or they noticed that and decided that they had no time fixing it before the update (or not important enough to push the update).

Yeah, basically Khrunichev went bust developing it exclusively out of their own pocket. This in turn became a great excuse to sell off the expensive land under Khrunichev, forcing Angara's production to move to the stillborn Energiya Block A production line at Omsk, which didn't do the timeline any favors.

Okay! Here‘s the plan: I‘ll make a separate section for every account who makes an idea. In it, I‘ll add the idea. This will take some time, but thank you for the consent!

You can do whatever you want, ideas cannot be copyrighted so you could remix that like you want.

Oh the irony So you want the game with 6 popular mods instead.

In general you could download all files and reinstall them from Github, or download only the Patches folder... this might work as well. I personally did a full reinstall from the latest state on Github.

Banned for feeding capibaras with rutabagas.

The mechanical armour is made of plastic.

Calling 911 to greet them because your plane is flying above.

Granted. The KSP2 devteam is now in Seattle. I wish for what I won't tell.

Just a matter of taste. While the Americans enhoy wasting money by cancelling projects implemented in metal, the Russians prefer to do it to the projects implemented in paper. The paper is cheaper. *** Anyway, there is actually nothing to do on the Moon until portable fusionuke reactors provide power for mining and refining, while Soyuzes keep flying from time to time, to keep the honor guard at the orbital station.

I.e. to lose/drop excessive capital, lol. It's a capitalism, or I forgot something? Maybe, Musk is a proponent of socialism? (Not in the bolsheviks' terms, but in original sense, a socium-oriented society.) Based on everything what we know about the labour conditions in his companies, and mass dismissals, definitely no. Definitely the opposite. Just a poetically romantic self-made billionaire, who likes to see the rockets doing "pshhh!" The military contracts are just a hobby. It's rather strange, though, why Starlink is for money, not free. Billions of people would appreciate the free world-wide internet so much! Even much more much than that... how did you say?.. Mars?.. Schmars?.. colony for a pack of geeks.

UNITED LAUNCH ALLIANCE PRESS RELEASE (2024-04-24) LAST UPDATED 1:58 AM, APRIL 24, 2024 Mission Success! Delta IV Heavy Delivers the Zarya Functional Cargo Block (FGB, ISS 1A/R) to orbit for NASA and Roscosmos A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy Rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 37B at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida Last night (April 23rd, 2024) at 11:20 AM Eastern Standard Time (0320 Zulu,) carrying the Zarya Functional Cargo Block (ISS 1A/R, Funktsional'nyy Gruzovoy Blok) For the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos. The Zarya module Is the first element of the International Space Station to be launched. Zarya will provide electrical power, storage, propulsion, and guidance to the ISS during the initial stage of assembly. Zarya was launched on Delta IV due to the retirement of Russia’s venerable Proton Launch system, which was previously slated to launch Zarya. Roscosmos and ULA signed the Mission’s Launch Contract in November 2020, along with the contracts for Zvezda and MRM-1. Delta IV Successfully Delivered Zarya to its target orbit of 51.6 Degrees and 160 Kilometers in altitude at 11:31:09 PM Eastern Standard Time, separating from the Boeing-built Launch Vehicle Payload Adapter (LVPA) and officially beginning the International Space Station Program. At 11:40 PM Eastern Standard Time, the Zarya Module’s activation began, with flight controllers in Moscow, Russia transmitting commands to Zarya via the NASA TDRS network to activate the Module’s RCS system, Antennas, and to deploy the Module’s solar arrays. The launch of Zarya was the first-ever International Delta IV launch, Contracted by United Launch Services. It was also the first of three contracted Delta IV launches for The Russian Federal Space Agency/Roscosmos, the others being the Zvezda Service Module and the Rassvet MRM-1. In addition to these firsts, this mission was also the first Delta IV Rocket to fly with an ISS Operations Upper Stage (IOUS.) Derived from existing Delta Cryogenic Second Stage technology, the IOUS employs two RS-73/MARC-60 engines and provides around 4.8 times more thrust than the current Single-engine RL-10 powered DCSS, and will be used for all subsequent ISS assembly flights. The mission was the Ninth Delta IV Rocket to be flown since its inaugural launch in 2020 and the Third Delta IV Heavy Rocket to fly. Honoring the International Space Station Team With the launch of Zarya, ULA, NASA, and Roscosmos decided to place a message honoring the dedication and passion of the International Space Station team on Delta IV-H DV-011. This dedication can be shown below in the spoiler, as usual. (As always, this is a work of fiction.) The Dedication can be found in the spoiler below. Launch Photography and Renderings of Zarya can be found below. Image Caption(s) in spoiler. Renderings of Zarya (Artist's Impression) (Credit: NASA/CollectingSP)

What we do know is that humanity, or small portions of humanity, have threatened to destroy themselves in the past. It does not make sense to just export humanity as is to Mars if the goal is to save humanity. It “will” (really just have a good likelihood) of destroying itself. I’m also saying that the costs involved in building a Mars city would be so exuberant it makes no sense to pursue it. I can’t think of any instance in human history in which a corporation has outspent itself on something with no return in profit. The Mars colony scenarios described by people here tend to assume the social and economic order we have now will just continue forever. I think that is highly unlikely, and if it does stay the same, it is unlikely space colonies will ever be built. You are right. There is a lot we don’t know. Which is why in my post where I did a very rough calculation of the costs involved, I kept it in terms of 2022 technology and economics. If the future ends up being more of the same, a Mars colony just doesn’t sound feasible to me. Now that you mention it, I agree I am filling unknowns with imagined realities- at least when it comes to the economics of it, because it is impossible to know what that will be like in the future- but I would say the person in your tweet you originally posted is doing so too. Thank you for pointing that out by the way. I just feel there are limits to the way things are now, limits to what we can do. I believe accomplishing something as immense as colonizing space is going to take more than just technical solutions. SpaceX is a company though, and companies need to make money. Some SpaceX documents WSJ found revealed that the launch business was never intended to be profitable. Starlink is what they hope will become their main cash cow. There is a limit to how much money can be made on internet- it can easily be seen in the current profits of existing big internet companies. Taking into account what it takes to build and maintain a city on Earth, I’m skeptical SpaceX will ever make enough money to build a city of a million people and build all the rockets needed to get it there, while also still maintaining their internet service. And build all the robots needed to build the city and whatever other costs there may be. Over the course of hundreds of years it might be possible. But not on the timelines Musk is talking about, and corporations would somehow need to spend their profit with no positive return on investment. What I fear with his “we’ll have this done by 2050” mentality is people will see it fail to meet the timeline and then give up. Questions will start to be asked and it will be delayed more and more, and then eventually abandoned. You often say a goal in spaceflight needs to be achievable in ten years or it isn’t going to happen. IIRC Musk originally aimed for Mars landings to begin in the 2020s, so has the right idea when it comes to landing and initial exploration. Space colonization on the scale Musk speaks of is unlikely to be achievable in a decade. How can investment in it be maintained for long periods of time? If the dream of space colonization rests on one man’s dream, what happens when that man eventually dies? What if he changes his mind? People went to and invested in the Americas because there was a prospect of wealth. Freedom was another big thing. What does Mars offer? We assume people would flock to colonize Mars because of the beauty and awe of space travel. But people either want splendor for themself or their family. The Americas had advantages over Europe. What advantage does Mars have over Earth? These are the types of questions we need to ask if we want to colonize space. We can’t assume some “law of progress” or “natural” development of humanity, or bet on billionaires doing it on a whim. A lot of people here seem resigned to do that. What scares me is that if we set profit or “affordability” as the marker for doing something, we’ll just give up if it can’t be done within those parameters. The Moon landing was accomplished by basically throwing those two principles out the window. Sure, steps were taken to get their to lower costs- LOR was cheaper than DA or EOR- but we were gonna pay the bill regardless of what the amount truly was (at least once Kennedy was killed. Idk if the same commitment would have been there if he stayed alive). This kind of brings me to what darth was talking about above- filling in unknowns. We assume we’ll find a way to make it profitable or worthwhile to a corporation… what if we can’t? What if there’s a limit to how cheap/affordable spaceflight can be made? All of my posts have been trying to allude to the fact that we need to be prepared for that possibility. Space colonization is not something that should be done because it is affordable or profitable. It should be done because of the potential benefits it offers to humanity. Unfortunately, profitability/affordability doesn’t always align with “benefits to humanity.” If it did there’d be a business for eliminating hunger and homelessness. Instead it mostly falls to governments or non-profits. Governments are a terrible choice to task with space colonization and non-profits obviously couldn’t either.

Yes! Here‘s the plan: I‘ll make a separate section for every account who makes an idea. In it, I‘ll add the idea. This will take some time, but thank you for the consent!

I didn’t test the new update.

absolutely!

I understand your point. Read the post left by Presto 200. If they allow me, I‘ll add this to the post. Do you like this idea? I think it checks your boxes. What do you think?

Is this with or without the new update?

Nice! It‘s a good idea and very helpful! Can I add this to the post? I‘m trying to make this a community bulletin board, where everyone‘s ideas are in one page. Any ideas are very helpful to this cause! Can I have your consent to add it? Please?