Nicholander

Okay Endersmens, but it may end up being that we have to decide on one, either the Lunar flyby with next to no science, or the LEO artificial gravity with spirulina and lots of science. I say we cooperate, but no full merger because then we get 2 CubeSats! And, like I said earlier we should then work together to make the Phobos lander. EDIT: And then it hit me... I just realized that we could ask to have our Phobos CubeSat on one of the Griffin Lander missions for the GTO injection...

Endersmens, yes, they are very experienced, which is absolutely fantastic, but I fear that our ideas would be drowned out and thrown away by them if it was a merger. So I do support cooperation, but a full merger? No.

I agree with astropapi1, we should try to contact them. Though, we could try cooperating with them, but we make our CubeSat's separately, and by that I mean is that we share info and stuff together, but we make our CubeSat with the artificial sub-gravity and spirulina, and they make there CubeSat's, there for 2 KSP CubeSats! And then, after that, maybe we can then work together to make the grand PHOBOS LANDER!!!

"My kod, it's full of SRBs!" - Jeb when entering the Kerbolith, and last transmission from Kerscovery. Now, make the Discovery and Station V!

Ah, good, at least some small progress. Anyway, when do you think you'll be done?

Honestly, just PLEASE set it on an alternate history Earth, PLEASE!!!

Really, fantastic find oarum! Yeah, now you've convinced me that Spirulina is the best bet we have. Hmm... Unfortunately there's really nothing for me to say about the thermal design right now, can't think of anything.

1. Nice song... But no. 2. Okay, I get it, maybe a soil based plant is not a good idea, so maybe we should bring up that Spirulina.

dharak1, even a "short term" manned Mars expedition would almost certainly grow food of some kind on the surface, we might as well just do that too. Also, we should have it that first none of the seeds are growing, and then we water/make them start growing half of them for the amount of time we have for Lunar gravity. And then, after half through our CubeSat's mission lifetime, we spin it up to Mars gravity and water/make them start growing the other half of seeds, to study how those react in Martian gravity. You see, with that plan, the Lunar experiment is not interrupted while after it's started (Because with the previous plan all of the seeds would start at Lunar gravity, and we would not be able to study how the plants react when they start growing at Martian gravity), and we get to study both gravities. And NERVAfan, I'm still convinced that we should grow a soil based plant, like Moss.

Uh... you need to upload it to Imgur or something... You just can't do it by using the location that's on your PC, it just doesn't work like that.

Please, DON'T set it in a different solar system, just think of it as some alternative history on Earth.

astropapi1, though what you said is true, we should still do Mars gravity anyway, because we need a magneto torquer to get it spinning in the first place, you might as well switch to Mars gravity after you've done some Lunar stuff.

Not bad... Not bad indeed... In fact, I'd call it EXCELLENT! And yes, I've said it ∞ times, but are you going to do the N1-L3 next?

Epic! Can't wait until you're done on that proposed Mars mission! Also, why is the thing so damn long?!? If it was powered by RTGs, then it'd be fine. But it has solar panels, and unless the long trusses have fuel on them (Which I don't see!), like the Discovery from 2001: A Space Odyssey, then it's pointless.

NERVAfan, I think that having a water based plant is not a good idea, as I said earlier, the point of our CubeSat is to study the effects of plants in different gravities to study how they behave and react. And you just simply can't do that with water based plants, because in the future, people will NOT be growing these water based plants that you speak of, they will be growing ground based plants/crops, and moss is small enough to fit in the 0.5U pressurized area, AND is ground based.

1. Bumped yet again! 2. _Augustus_, what do you mean? Have you made the planets in Kerbol+ in a 0.23 game using PlanetFactory or something? 3. I'll have to rename Fut because, well... It means something which I'll not mention in German...

Which do you mean? Just Java Moss, or all moss in general?

Earlier someone suggested Java Moss, and anyway, it's essentially the only plant that's small enough to fit in the 0.5U pressurized area.

So, ah... It's been 5 days, so how's progress?

NERVAfan, the point of our CubeSat is to study the effects of plants in sub-gravity, like Moon or Mars gravity, and to see how to react and behave in that environment. And this data will be very valuable when/if we want to grow food/crops on The Moon or Mars, like on a colony, and you can't get data for that with some algae floating in some water, just because of some concerns that the previous design (Which all of us has agreed upon) will break during launch. Many space agencies has sent satellites up with plants in them, so why can't we?

K^2: Okay, Mars MAY be a bit much, but we can afford to push it, like first we do something in Lunar gravity, and then we change it to Mars gravity, so in the very unlikely event that it fails somehow because of that, then we still get the Lunar gravity data, so it'd be better then not equipping our CubeSat to get Mars gravity. Endersmens: Earlier in our thread christok, a KSP forum member, was/is working with K^2 to make a sim for our CubeSat, and that's the Github thing for that. It's in C++ code by the way.

Also, how will our CubeSat change it's spin velocity from Moon gravity to Mars gravity, and vice versa? If it's already been answered before in our 109 page thread and I forgot, sorry.

I think that this thread is good enough, WH40krules.

Well, when I searched it it was the 3rd link there was, but that doesn't matter.

Oh, and if you don't know what our CubeSat will do, it is a 1U CubeSat with 1 half of it having a pressurized area with some moss, and the other half will have all the systems. (MPUs, batteries, hard drives, etc.) But, it will also spin, creating sub-artificial gravity. I say sub because it will not spin to the point it creates 1G, but will instead create gravities of The Moon and Mars, to study how plants behave and react in those environments.