Rakaydos

Hmm... can a science lab reset a canister that had it's science stored in a command pod? If so, it seems like the best "science stack" would be a Lab with Antenna, a 3 man pod, and a material science bay. Every biome, you check the science, process it in the lab, transmit and reset, re-expose, take the leftover science into the command pod, and reset again. And take an EVA report while you're collecting the science. It's massive and has to come home, but it will generate about 10% more science than a 100% science return, and might even be more mass efficent if you have the deltav and science for, say, a grand jool tour.

Good thing you have that science lab, where your kerbals can look at it and reset it. Didnt bring a science lab? Then who did you think were going to look at the science? (The pilot? Please, jeb doesnt have the attention span for that) Certiantly not the Probe core.

Unfortunately, Scott Manley specifically brought this up to the developers at the GDC interview- the developers in the interview (C7?) were decidedly skeptical of the idea, despite it being in a mod.

It sounded like it's the same ISP, but more thrust means the same fuel burns faster. The Energy Management remains at 1 Gigantor at 1 AU for full throttle, however.

The ant engine almost tripling in power gives it a better TWR than the rocomax probe engine. I'm waiting to see the crazy probe-asparaguses that come out of this.

I'm pretty sure the super-mainsail has 3 different ISPs- an Atmo (medium), a Vaccuum (low), and Peak (highest) So after launch the engine gets MORE efficent, but drops off as it gets closer to vaccuum.

It depends what you want out of docking. If you just want to have a quick refuel for your SSTO, sure use a Claw. But if you're trying to assemble a ship in orbit that's actually going to thrust places after assembilly, the more rigid docking port connection is essential.

The 2.5 engine pairs are also poorly designed for 6x symetry- 6 asparagussed mainsails will be better than 4 engine pairs.

I wonder what the joint reinforcement will do to Kracken drives?

Terminal velocity at ASL is 100-120 ms. If you can get the asteroid to have a TWR of at least 2:1, you should be able to manage a 15 second suicide burn for a powered landing.

1) Launch capture craft to minmus orbit and refuel it. 2) Track an asteroid that passes fairly close to minmus (no encounter needed) 3) intercept and claw the asteroid 4) Adjust the asteroid's post- slingshot orbit into a harmonic of Kerbins (set to Kerbal time and aim for a whole number of years for orbit) 5) Timewarp for 3-4 years until the next kerbin encounter Sometime during the timewarp, fine tune the orbit so you get a Mun encounter 6)use a slingshot around the mun to capture around kerbin.

Have the capture craft waiting in minmus orbt. When an asteroid enters Kerbin SoI, the capture craft catches up to it, docks, and tweaks the asteroid's slingshot around kerbin so that it will get another encounter in about a year or two. Tune this orbit to slingshot Mun for a capture orbit.

Isnt the "Yellow fuel line" from the shuttle external to the shuttle the part that had the falling foam that killed Columbia?

"Faster than light" in no way implies relativity. The classic fictional FTL drive, the "jump" drive, ignores relativity by reaching the destination directly, through setting-specific technobable. (a subset is the "hyperspace" drive, where the jump takes time, during which you are someplace outside our reality.)

Bernuli's Law. Same atmospheric pressure on both sides of a wing, but because one side is moving laterally faster, a "phantom force" is generated.

Perhaps an option screen, like where you choose Sandbox or Carear, you can check "deadly rentry" and "Life support" as options. If you dont want then, dont use them, if you want them, they're stock.

Isnt that called Project Daedalus?

Is a runway launched Basic Jet assisted asparagus without landing gear that can flyby the mun, exotic enough for this contest? It was done in carear mode (with FAR) to get enough science to unlock turbo jets. Required Science Tech, Aerodynamics, and Fuel systems. With a few extra batteries, I was able to get munar slingshots for Solar science, and even a few Minmus flybies.

If someone else has a functonal crane design that doesnt require flying dockings, that can support rockomax docking ports, I would like a craft file. Reassembily is the part I'm failing at. I'm also considering an "honorable mention" that includes attaching new SRBs as part of the "refueling" process

"Needs moar struts"

So, even though the guy who came up with the idea reconizes the thermal problem we keep pointing out to you, you insist on trying to defend an altitude that forces you to fight a losing battle against the laws of thermodynamics. THAT is why everyone is ganging up on you. Because what you want goes against thermodynamics. "If you think Einstein was wrong, I say, "tell me more". But if you think Thermodynamics was wrong, you are."

Enriched Uranium 235 has a half life of 703,800,000 years. In that many years, half of your materiel will have decayed naturally into lighter elements. A uranium reactor, I would think, would last quite a few years before a significant drop in reactivity... though that might be reduced by having a critical reaction going on.

Made this thing in carear mode, on my FAR "Spacepane hanger only" file. I needed to flyby the mun to get enough sience for turbojets. Which meant getting to the mun without turbojets (or landing gear) The amusing thing is, the craft is turning into one of my most reliable kerbin sysem exploreres, with a few minor changes. Slingshot the Mun for Solar science, or out to minmus orbit to get a landing

His new design uses a gravity drain of low pressure molten fuel into a neutron absorbing tank in the event of a failure. Would the space equilvilant be a neutron absorbing torus around the reactor, with a couple sepratrons to spin the reactor to drain into it?

Note that you dont need to enter orbit to deorbit debris. A missile with an aerosol payload can be fired balistically, with an apogee directly in front of the debris you want to deorbit, and explode in a dense cloud of gas, which the debris is slowed by before the gas disperses. Once slowed, the debris quickly decays, and the wreckage of he missile you used simply falls back down.