CobaltWolf

These are the only SOLTAN boosters I'm planning on making; the lengths are accurate, as far as I can tell, to multiple drawings I have in a book about the history of DynaSoar. (the color image above is actually a tracing of one of them by Mark Wade). Unfortunately there's just about NOTHING to go off of, stylistically, for these boosters. So I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them in terms of visuals... I want them to feel distinct, but similar, to the UA120s. I think I'm going to make some serious changes to the aft compartment compared to what is shown above.

SOLTAN WIP http://www.spacelaunchreport.com/titannot.html

2x Algols / E-1 / LR-91-AJ3 / Vega

Do you have smokescreen installed? (If not using RP, delete it. If using RP, install it) Are you sure you have BDB fully installed? Including the mod's FX folders etc (basically, fully install the gamedata folder fresh?)

Stream's over, but I got 8 new parts in game and up on Github!

Meanwhile, Jso coming in and whacking the Titan 1 fuel tanks with a massive nerf bat: Dev stream starting in ~5 mins over on Twitch!

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If we get Rockot... does that mean we get the upper stage?

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Hmm, it does occur to me that my request to not have it adopted was mostly in the interest of people not rushing to try and put work into it before the DLC was announced. If people want to try to patch it, please do go ahead. If people want to hold on to the assets from the mod (the lockers and box in particular) feel free to re-release them, even.

An obscure classic, for sure. I need to look at tweaking the ISPs for the single and half segment. Was canoodling with an idea last night... A Titan-II style 1.875m>1.25m adapter and a Titan-II style 1.5m>1.25m adapter. And then some sort of ultra-low profile hollow fairing base? Idea being, then with the translation gizmo, you could build this: Recess an Antares or something in there and then have the payload envelope resemble the missile nose cone. Is this necessary? Probably not but I want to do it. At the very least, I'm definitely doing the two adapters.

I'm planning for the update after the Titan update to be revamps of the Vanguard, Redstone, Jupiter, and Thor rockets, with a similar (if not more) amount of expansion as the Titan parts (adding in missing details, making things more accurate to the real rockets, texture switching, etc). I have been considering inserting an update between the two which would focus on things like revamping MOL, the Gemini lander, Big G, etc but I'm leaning towards 'no' right now, mostly just because I want to finish revamping the lower quality stuff in the mod before worrying too much about adding more. The models for that update are already in preproduction, I've been posting pictures here of them occasionally. I also have fresh models of the H-1, J-2, and F-1 that need to be unwrapped and stuff at some point.

I'm not sure, you should try and beat them

Not sure I'm interested. However, @hieywiey did point out something even more cursed on stream: Now, I've often seen references to "Titan 1 / Vanguard" (well, just one, on Astronautix, so take that with the largest grain of kosher salt). I often assumed that was just a misnomer for a Titan 1 / Able. It turns out, if you read it carefully, that is certainly NOT what it is (emphasis mine):

We did it lads. (I mean except for the LR-87-AJ3 but shhhh) Oh yeah, and the best part... It switches to 1.875m.

Stream going back up in about NOW

It was the former. I had already been talking to people about giving up the mod, and a day or two before the Squad announcement, someone told me "not to worry about it and keep an eye on the forums". I currently have no plans to remake SEP; I just don't have time with how much content I need to make for BDB.

I'm not sure, it's probably somewhere between Thor and Atlas. It needs a kick stage to get anything meaningful, but even a small solid like the Star-20 would fill the roll. My understanding is that it had the skirt to try and help with air circulation. Back in the late-50s through until the 70s, base heating was a very poorly understood phenomenon and they used a lot of different techniques to try and minimize it. They used air scoops in combination with the skirt on the Titan 1, on the Titan 2 they decided to just use air scoops. Of course, nobody will stop you from launching it with SRBs

Need to take a break for a bit... I might get a little more done tonight, but tomorrow morning I'm definitely streaming again!

Dev stream starting about.... now! Let's see if we can tackle Titan 1 this weekend!

Whoa Reminder that I'm planning on streaming tomorrow morning, starting by let's say 8:30 Eastern at the latest. Going to see if we can just bang out Titan 1 in a weekend.

Any chance of a dev stream?

BDB is also natively the right size for JNSQ

As far as I know it still works. Just make sure dependencies are updated.

Yeah, no, that's 'not my job'. I make Bluedog, the Realism Overhaul people make RO. I barely even force myself to make the BDB configs (and those have to be heavily edited by my co-author)