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Genhellfire

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  1. @Ferram4 Just watched a interview with Scott Manley, Felipe and Chad. In it they mentioned that they fixed a joint problem revolving around physics torque maxing out at "7" what does that mean? With this change they showed a stable 3.75m wide tall rocket which was rock solid, does this make your mod redundant or will your mod strengthen joints further still?
  2. Thanks Fractal_UK I got it working, 240 GW of solar energy, KSC is going to save a fortune not having to buy Thorium. Ever thought of implementing a Bussard collector to pick up all those spare particles in space for propellant?
  3. How does the Line of sight for microwave relays/transmitters work? I got a ring of 9 stations placed somewhat equally apart at a 4 Mm circular Orbit around Kerbol, each one has a relay and transmitter active and has Line of sight (the model of Kerbol doesn't get in the way if I line up the camera between each neighbor), yet when I switch to my Keostationary relay and set it to receive it gets nothing, and there is most certainly stations in direct line of sight relays aside... this is confusing, each station is transmitting 18.35 GW. Am I missing something?
  4. Long time lurker here. On the solar sails I thought it was amusing that it would take 125,000,000,000 m² or 12.5 Million km² just to get one measly ton of force, For reference the Earth's total surface area is 510,072,000 km² so it would be 2.45% of that. Assuming that it is carbon nanotubes with a weave tighter then half the wavelength of the light hitting it at 0.1 gram/m² your looking at 12,500 tons of carbon and a acceleration of a maximum of 0.00008 G's your payload will not be significant if its anything less than 125 tons. The power potential for a surface that large is immense, at 1.321 KW/m² in earth orbit you end up with 165.125 Terrawatts of power potential for reference mankind's total power usage as of 2012 (everything including the plankton that feed our fish we eat.) was 4700 TW in other words our solar sail could provide for 3.5% of the worlds needs. @FractalUK is there any chance of a Statite like functionality being possible with this module?
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