MaverickSawyer
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1 hour ago, DDE said:
The Soviets lost two nameless Salyuts, one of them in a launch failure. Just sayin’
Yeah, well, that's the Soviets during the Cold War, back when they could easily control the news of a failure, and when said failure wasn't so much of an issue. It's not so easy with China...
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At what hour of the morning in WA?
*does timezone conversion*
Nope, nope, nope, not getting up for that.
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Just now, cubinator said:
The real anomaly is that the video didn't even cut out before the landing!
Maybe they had the Starlink prototypes above the horizon? Or perhaps they oriented the barge such that the plume wasn't as much of an issue?
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First stage stuck the landing, as usual, too.
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Just now, purpleivan said:
Anyone know what the blue thing is on the capsule internal view (looks like some kind of plushie toy).
freefall sensor!
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8 minutes ago, tater said:
At least it's not a face-hugger.
Should've used this:
Well.... given the crash test dummy ... erm, human analogue unit? Yeah, let's go with that, shall we?
Anyways, given the name bestowed upon the passenger, that plushie would be more appropriate!
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@sevenperforce is correct. American solid fuel grain has the consistency (and has nearly the same mechanical properties) as a pencil eraser. The only way it leaves the casing after it cures is to either carve it out with a knife or a pressure washer, or to burn it.
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1 hour ago, DDE said:
Wouldn’t it the loads be rather lightened because SRB thrust termination involves ejecting all of the unburnt fuel?
Uhm... No. All you're doing is dropping chamber pressure to near-zero, which slashes the burn rate of the fuel and the thrust produced. Any unburned fuel is still in the casing, burning (relatively) slowly and generating copious amounts of smoke and fire, but the gases that are produced are being vented out of both the nozzle and the holes punched in the casing by the thrust termination system. From what I understand, the plan usually called for punching the holes near the top of the casing.
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It's kinda irrelevant now... I've committed to a full-stop mission to Duna. Habs, labs, rovers, cargo pods, the whole works.
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Huh. LOX-cooled engine? That's... kind of an odd choice. Wonder why?
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1 hour ago, sh1pman said:
For every idiot-proof design there will be one really persistent idiot with a sledgehammer...
Hence why I use the term "idiot resistant", not "idiot proof". There is no such thing as idiot proof, because nature will always make a better idiot.
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3 hours ago, GearsNSuch said:
Maybe more like plugging the gasoline supply into the air intake and vice-versa.
Unless they want cosmonautsicles. Mmm...
Ditto. You'd think they would have markings on the hoses and fuelports or something...
Better idea: make the connectors different enough that one physically cannot mistakenly cross them up. It's something I call "designing with a high level of idiot resistance".
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ISS uses a standard nitrox mix at sea level pressures, or pretty close to it.
Atlas SRBs are indeed monolithic. I was lucky enough to see a casing being wound more than a decade ago, and it was a continuous composite layup. They're about as big as one can build a monolithic solid motor and still have them road transportable... 5 feet in diameter, 60 feet long, and somewhere around 120000 pounds fully loaded.
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Vodka rocket, eh?
Seems legit.
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15 hours ago, Angel-125 said:
I made a portable aircraft hangar:
Mmmm... So THAT'S how you kept Jeb from finding the flying saucer program for so long!
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4 hours ago, Vanamonde said:
mmmm... More of a fan of "My Heart is Broken" or "Lost in Paradise" myself, but to each their own.
Right now, I've been drooling over the stuff Meteor has been making for Heatblur's F-14 package for DCS...
As one commenter put it, "This is not just a module, it's a entire 80ish experience."
I'm in complete agreement on that count.
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Found a curious entry into the log files while investigating two sequential crashes of KSP...
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[LOG 15:13:06.208] System.Xml.XmlException handled while loading PluginData for type ModuleTweakableGimbal: do you have a malformed XML file?
Upon inspection of the config.xml file in the appropriate folder, I found it to be 1kb and completely blank. Is that normal, or did something happen to blank that file?
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DM-1, here we come!
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15 hours ago, Moach said:
This video was made in 2011. It is the earliest recording I can scrounge up from the "olden days" of Kerbal Spaceflight. That's 0.18, or 19 maybe... sometime around that general epoch, for sure
There was no map view back then, nor any method of measuring orbital parameters without doing the math yourself from speed and altitude alone. The game had not much earlier been planned as a casual "how high can it go before boom" type challenge, which would have likely veered towards the mobile "casual" market (and therefrom unto oblivion) ... After some insistence by myself, since back then HarvesteR would sometimes still take advice from his own twin brother, the concept was fortunately turned towards the simulator side. I recall promoting it as "if they're gonna blow up anyways, it might as well happen on the way to a realistic orbit. No sense dumbing it down for accessibility" - much to our benefit, that idea actually stuck, and KSP as we know it was born. This video was made a few months after that event.
Note that there were already some mods made. - Mod friendliness were always a high concern in KSP development history. One of the very first major parts packs "Wobbly Rockets" is being used in that video. Plus some assorted bits I had made myself and have since become most thoroughly obsolete many times over
There was no Mun, or anywhere else to go... there wasn't even time warp (some of us used cheat-engine type software to force faster running) so completing a full orbit around Kerbin and reentering near enough home base was the pinnacle of achievement. It had to be done by the seat of one's pants, so it was much more art than science really...
If there wasn't a Mun to go to, that's pretty 0.12, isn't it? God that was a long time ago... Why, I remember when Minmus was freshly discovered!
Good times, gang... good times.
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14 minutes ago, Fearless Son said:
"Daredevil" is probably the most epic piece from that soundtrack, but "Sol Squadron" is probably more appropriate to the fighter in the screenshot. Either that, or "Archange".
"There are Kerbals like you in every generation, and I've launched every last one of them..."
I'm kinda fond of Magic Spear I for launching rockets, myself.
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Well, isn't it a Russian tradition to refer to maritime vessels with a male pronoun, while many Western nations use female pronouns?
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Yeah, you either need fuel lines or a mod to manage the staging.
Personally, I'd use Smart Parts, as there's a whole range of useful sensors that can trigger staging and/or action groups based on altitude, speed, fuel status, time, proximity, etc.
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Yeah, nope, not going to be able to see it. The Pacific North Wet will be living up to its name again...