Lunniy Korabl

Made a little patch and banner. Will update with a more accurate cubesat once we've settled on an overall design. Edit: Whoops, probably should have checked the forum sig specs first. For those who can't be bothered resizing, have a 120 pixel high version! Remember the image can be a link to this thread by wrapping [ url=http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/86010-KSP-Community-CubeSat/ ][ /url ] around the image code.

Oh hey! I'm an artist. I made this and these. I haven't been keeping up with the progress on this, but I'd be happy to make some promotional stuff. What is required?

Good luck! http://youtu.be/WKCl3lfAx1Q

I suppose you're right. A quick google suggests kerosene has an energy density of 43 MJ/kg, while Lithium Thionyl Chloride will do you 2 MJ/kg. Now you'll need oxidiser as well, so with a mixing ratio of 3, the actual energy density of your combined LOX/RP-1 is roughly 32 MJ/kg. So there's tankage and turbine weights not accounted for, but they'd have to be pretty heavy to make a difference when a kilo of fuel will get you 15 times more energy than a kilo of battery. I suppose the smaller the rocket the more that weight of things like turbines would count compared to fuel. What is interesting though, is that battery technology is improving with time, whereas kerosene will always have the same properties. In 10 years it's not hard to imagine that it might be cost effective to use electric pumps, especially with stage recovery.

Or... I guess just a pump? Is it possible to create an electrically driven turbopump on a rocket, so you get the high isp of a closed cycle without the additional complexity? I guess the question boils down to whether can you get sufficient energy density out of capacitor banks or lithium polymer batteries to run a pump for a few minutes and still be lighter than the amount of fuel wasted and additional parts required for open/closed cycle turbopumps? Those turbines can be pretty heavy, but I don't have the theoretical background to understand the tradeoffs well enough.

@Uboats With the solid rocket contracts you'll need to fire the rocket once all four requirements are met, not before. Then it will go completely green and no longer show the requirements. That is how you know it's done. Same with the liquid really, but you at least can mess with your staging and refire them if you lit them too early.

The beeping at the end was pretty annoying how it kept repeating, but the animation was great. What software did you use?

I made Tin and a had Nickel ready to make another Tin but it gets jammed up pretty easily at that stage.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Even Mr. Musk has done the maths and decided FH is "not big enough" for the kinds of payloads they want to send to Mars. He has recently alluded to a Moon mission with FH though, saying something along the lines of not being that interested in the Moon compared to Mars but that they'll probably go there just to prove the capability.

Isn't the current launch rate for Falcon 9 v1.1 averaging at every 2 months, or is your 6 month figure based on the need for 3 first stage cores for Falcon Heavy? Also, just for the sake of completeness I pick Soyuz, Enterprise, Apples.

Night flying at Laythe, so relaxing. Couldn't have done it without keptin's awesome design guide.

A bittersweet entry. If this had alt text it would say "Seriously, we're the only ones left now." I wanted the image to be more open to interpretation, so left it as is. If you need a breakup image, just change the text to "You meant the world to me." You're welcome.

I think the planets are hollow, with small black holes at the centre, held stable by the forces of "unity". Every now and then, the balance cannot be maintained, and order is restored through a mechanism known only as "the kraken".

Yup, 16th all day here. People two hours behind Mexico kind of amuse me. It'll be done when it's done. Earliest we could possibly expect is two hours from now, but odds are it's closer to 26 hours away.

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/report-explosion-on-elon-musks-spacex-rocket-falcon-9-2013-10 http://www.zarya.info/blog/?p=1595 Actually, it's the Zarya article that claims the intermittent video & audio feed during launch was SpaceX censorship due to a visible engineering issue on the 2nd camera angle. A bizarre leap to make considering the difficulty of getting a decent live video feed even when not strapped to a rocket. Between the two of them, it hardly seems like an unbiased account of events, but time will tell.

Anyone got any info about the alleged explosion of the upper stage after satellite release? Jim Edwards' article reads like a smear campaign and seems to confuse the upper and lower stages, but the reported debris orbits by Zarya combined with Elon's tweet about upper stage venting of liquid oxygen creating a fast moving fuzzy white sphere in space over SA suggest that something unusual happened.

Ok, just this once. Hope you like wide screen!

Sure, have Pol.

Wow, that's amazing. Do you have to do that manually, or is there some kind of robot machine that works off the computer design. Either way, I'm very impressed. I made some kerbal patches once, and all I did was iron-on transfers onto white canvas. You are the real deal.

The sand, I'm afraid, is all stock photos. Jool however is based on a procedural gas giant texture I created for making planetarium shows, so I'll gladly take the credit for that! Sure thing, I would probably do it myself if I knew how!

Had to swap the eyes before it worked, but bits of it were quite good. An insane amount of interaxial though unless you're using a tiny screen. Also, if you can't control it during the capture, try to adjust the screen plane in post by sliding one eye relative to the other so that the object in focus sits on the screen plane instead of having everything way behind or in front. That would be less painful.

So many questions! I don't plan to make them all desktop sized, because that would involve a whole bunch more work to make them look like they should (there's a reason everything is cropped), but I might do a couple of high quality ones if I get time. Kerbol is almost done and will probably be in animated gif format for great justice! In the interest of kermanity, the Eve lander didn't strand any kerbals. What they did is re-purpose one of the landers from the Gilly mission as an unmanned probe. Sort of like the red dragon mission concept to send a SpaceX Dragon to mars as a low cost probe. I have a policy of making all manned ships capable of autonomous flight, so it made sense to expand the science mission after Jeb was done with his lander. I'm on the creative cloud, so using AE CS6, but you've been able to render still frames since forever. Both as image sequences and individual custom frames. After Effects is a friendly picture editor, since video is just 24 pictures a second.

If that doesn't land on every planet at once then you're doing it wrong.

Haha, well I was just cheeky enough to give Rareden some tips on faking the solar surface, so it would be a fun challenge to take on! Got a craft with a nice solar shield?

If you're doing your post in after effects, try using vector blur set to "direction centre" on a few of your layers to give it that smeary look that you get from solar filaments, it'll also soften the sharp fractal boundaries a bit to get that subsurface scattering effect without expensive renders. Looking pretty sweet though!