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UFO confimed in KSP 1.0 Nice heatshield protective panels, I don't like much the stock ones

Yus, totally

Weird question, are you planing to do a protective " fairing " for the vulcain engine when clipping a part under the engine ? ( Oh and everything is great as always ! )

The Vulcain ( 2 ? ) hold all my attention I wonder how you will manage to give such a detailed engine the simple & stockalike flavour of your other parts edit : http://puu.sh/hrY2f/84547909bd.jpg This will be an amazing launcher for space station parts, are you planing to do a 3.75m station part one day ?

Nice and clean SRB, ariane V pieces will give us so many great new possibilities, 3.75m and 1.875m parts are welcome

The tug had a great design, it's too bad mankind don't pay more attention in space exploration nowadays, there are so much great project aborted because of budget restrictions.. I saw on the roscosmos facebook page that the new heavy angara you may talk about ( the angara A5V ) wouldn't be tested before at least 2023 and that is what I found on the thread " The new modification of the Angara heavy rocket is scheduled to be used for another two launches in 2025 to help a new-generation manned spacecraft fly around the Moon. " I wonder if russia will allow more credits to their new generation spacecraft projects when the united states will come back on the moon with the orion, will they ? Some interesting stuff I found http://www.russianspaceweb.com/kliper_lunar.html To beale -> Don't be rude with yourself, your answer was great, and I like pretty much the " soyuz little brother " thingy It's like kerbals wanted to fly a scaled launcher and that sounds very.. kerbal ! Will the SRB nosecone be a separate part that can act like a sepratron, I mean, another small solid ?

Well, talking about soyuz and gemini dimensions isn't an easy thing, I made some researchs and here is what I found It all started with those two same scaled kits of an R-7 soyuz and a gemini titan II http://spacemodels.nuxit.net/big30.jpg . For sure I was surprised of how small the titan was actually, then I looked for other comparisons and here we go with a vostok https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/36/08/06/36080601b0c886520e539a5e935709db.jpg ( you may notice that the mercury and the gemini reentry pod are nearly the same size ! ) . My following sources are from www.russianspaceweb.com which is truly the bible of the soviet space conquest, and http://www.braeunig.us one of the rare sites that gave me metric dimensions.. Gemini reentry pod : ( nosecone on ) Length: 3.4 m Maximum diameter: 2.3 m Habitable volume: 2.55 m3 Total mass: 1,982 kg Soyuz reentry pod : Length: 2.1 m Maximum diameter : 2.7 m Habitable volume : I got no informations for this as the soyuz interior was remained several times, but I do believe it's pretty much as spacy as a gemini for two cosmonauts with all the greeble and the chutes on. Total mass: 2,900 kg Giving a look to the R-7 dimensions here are two interesting drawings that I found on the wiki. The R-7 soyuz is nearly 50meters tall for approximately 8 meters large with the first stage, and a diameter of 3.35m for the second one. And here we go for the proton ( the picture is quite big, I prefer not to integrate it as it has (nearly) nothing to do with the tantares mod, not to flood http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Early_Proton-K_rocket_versions.jpg In his tallest configuration ( mir / salyut ) the proton is 61 meters tall for 8 meters large to the first stage, engines on, the second stage got a diameter of 4.1 meters. ( The titan II had a diameter of 3.05m ). To me, the gemini like and the soyuz like from your mod deserve to have their diameter switched, as well for the TLV, ahs the gemini reentry pod is just some centimeters taller in diameter http://www.friends-partners.org/mwade/graphics/m/mercgem.gif but clearly longer and stretched, his massive aspect compared to the mercury come from this strech, the nosecone and the service module. Switching the TLV and Soyuz size would mean a plenty of work to get everything to match in 1.875m with all the stuff that comes with ( engines dishes decouplers.. ) but still would make sense and soyuz would be more accurate As for the gemini, resizing the reentry module to match with the mk1 pod would mean some work too as the service module would be I guess 1.875 large at the bottom, and tantares LV doesn't have any tanks nor engines to fit with. I would like to say " please consider giving a try to the 1.875m soyuz and R-7 " because it would be more accurate compared to every other launchers from tantares LV and even to your spacecrafts, gemini and the LK are taller than your soyuz, they weren't at all , but this is just a proposal, an idea and I don't neglects your work at all, in it's actual chart of size tantares and tantares LV are already cool just a bit odd sometimes to me in matter of size but still ! It is yours to choose if you want to give a try to it or not, and you are already doing A HUGE amount of work for all of us especially with the 1.0 coming on anyway.. This little comparison to get you to expand the Soyuz and semiorka does not claim to make your mod acceptable in matter of size, because it is already very good and I enjoy tantares everyday I don't play without it, it 's just a little perfection that I propose to you ( I apologize for my mistakes in grammar and in English in general, I try my best to be understood )

Or the zemiorka bigger, I maintain that 1.875m parts for her and the soyuz is a good compromise to get a " real life like " size compared to the MK2 pod and you gemini. The new black and yellow ( hey you know what it is.. ) V-2 is absolutely stuning http://www.chartgeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/types-of-rockets1.jpg http://i.imgur.com/YvVuyn7.jpg

molto bello. I love the details in the middle ( at the grey section ) TLV now looks ridiculously tiny, but he wouldn't be so cute if he was bigger ( I finally liked the fact that your soyuz rocket is small )

Just like our favourite tovarisch from " kerb heat " said I vote for beige for the same reasons I like how your parts have a rich palette of colours, orange green grey white dark grey metal blue.. beige is welcome

eeeh What's that ALV II first stage without engines, are you planing separate proton engines? *-*

Holy noot noot of pingus ! I like pretty much light bricks ( are you talking about the split between brick right now ? ) and both are just nice. 3.75m parts were really needed in my gamedata since I deleted the nasa parts and using AB Launchers now I can build the monster of my dreams, monday will see some frankenstein's rockets, Vulkan/energia with proton and ariane stuff in the top of it to launch soviet space race era scrap Little edit: Well played, ariane tank colors are just beautiful ! edit 2: I just noticed how fast you create and texture all this stuff, you are allowed to take a break you may work 24/7 to get such content ( well, I will not complain for this )

As a french I wish we had R-7 rockets... Well, thing happens in guyana at least And agreed with Kibble, ariane 4 is badass !

So much win ! I can't wait !!

Dat engine. 11/10 IGN

As far as I know Beale is working on B antenna, and already had feedbacks about the C/D antenna, I guess we will have some new dishes soon

I used ENB series BlueHarvest and a mod called " MovieTime " give it a try, it is really worth it and has a vast palette of filters

I really should create a topic but as I use mostly tantares parts, I feel that those pictures belong here and afterall I made them for you tantares users... So, I would like to share with you a modest satellite launch that I did in a melancholic mood, it's been years I discovered how beautiful the immensity of space was, but even in a game I could not get rid of this .. As always I want to thank everyone who made this possible, squad, beale and every single kerbal fan who contributed into these mods. Have some relaxing sounds to go with it the full album is here http://imgur.com/a/XTaf2 the satellite is called korolev, a tribute for sure .

Hello, coming with a suggestion, angara engines anyone ? Ctbram -> I don't use kerbal engineering redux so I can't help :/

Clean and effiscient ! I really appreciate how you are attentive to you community thanks for the cool stuff as always !

I love your heat shields, they have a really unique look with this pointy draw, and the yellow-ish match well with other tantares parts as well as stock ones. Will the smaller heat shield keep the black up side ? With those parts I feel like having a black hole behind my crafts

Yepeepeee ! Thank ya !

Your CARV made out of progress is amazing, the person who does bloeting is creating one that looks great too May I ask you if you wish to kindly share the texture ?

Wow wow ! I love that piccolo mondo, the green LK is amazing as well as the new grey for the klipper. ( I will keep hiding those black and yellow stripes with the vostok chute as a hatch ahah ) Keep up the superb work as always Beale, and rock your exams !