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    [1.12.3] Knes 1.9.9

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    2 hours ago, Well said:

    Ok great, still going to up a little the MRK max temp, people could love to explore also other planet.

    Awesome little space station! Exactly how i like them, so cute at this scale.

    Thanks. I checked the stock 3-kerbal pod and it’s maxTemp is 2400, so just a little higher than the MRK

    1 hour ago, Starhelperdude said:

    is knes jnsq-size optimised?

    Yes, the Ariane in particular is perfect for JNSQ. The Ariane 44L and MRK work seamlessly at that scale.

    [1.12.3] Knes 1.9.9

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    So I feel like a complete idiot! :D

    Tested again from Munar orbit reentry, with a 45km periapsis, but this time aligning with the surface retrograde marker instead of the orbital marker, and had absolutely no problems. Heat was fine, and still had a little bit of ablator left over. So its all working fine and no alterations to the configs necessary!

    In my defence I haven't played KSP for over a year, and its been at least 3 years since I had RSS or any other mods that changed the size of the plantes/orbits etc, so I'm a bit rusty! ;)

    Anyway, hopefully this can be used as a Public Service Announcement for people who need help with deorbiting: align with the surface marker, NOT the orbital marker, lol!

     

    As an aside, this is my current small space station, using KNES parts and parts from Universal Storage (one of my other favourite mods). Station parts launched using Ariane 1 and Viking launched on a Bacchus. It was at this point that I realised that carrying out Science was going to need a lot more power!

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    [1.12.3] Knes 1.9.9

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    2 minutes ago, Well said:

    ok thanks for this review, i'm going to add more max temp on those parts... still strange they explode, behind the heatshield, they are not supposed to burn, like i've said they probably take heat by the side or by the skin. Many thanks for this precise review. Did you have an idea what max temp could be nice for those parts ? i don't want to add too much resistance.

    Also can you said what part explode at first ?

    Glad to be of service :)

    About to have dinner now with the family, but I’ll be back online later this evening. Planning to run a few more tests with different retrograde alignments (surface vs orbit) as the temperature dropped significantly when the craft rolled. I think you might be correct that heat is bleeding round the side of the shield. I’ll also try out the same reentry profile with the stock 3-kerbal pod just to see what happens as the maxTemp is a little bit higher for that pod iirc. I’ll make notes of the parts that fail and let you know in detail what I find. :D 

    [1.12.3] Knes 1.9.9

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    Ok, a couple of quick tests carried out with an MRK returning from the Mun...

    Using KER to monitor thermal loads on the spacecraft. At 75km altitude, critical part switches from heatshield to MRK temperature (limit 2200K)

    Test 1: Periapsis 65km... MRK critical skin temperature limit 2130/2200K... survived its journey through the upper atmosphere but carried on through into a highly elliptical Kerbin orbit

    Test 2: Periapsis 62.5km... MRK critical skin temperature reached 2200K... craft burnt up.

    Test 3: Periapsis 85km... Used all fuel in the service module at periapsis to reduce apoapsis from Munar altitude to 5000km, then used monoprop at apoapsis to reduce peri to 60km and jettisoned the service module. MRK skin temperature maxed out at 2160K at 60km altitude. Craft survived and skipped out of the atmosphere with an apoapsis of 3500km.

    It looks like the MRK won't survive a deorbit reentry from much above Low Kerbin Orbit due to the 2200K limit on the part.

     

    [1.12.3] Knes 1.9.9

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    26 minutes ago, Well said:

    At least i could said for now that irl MRK was not supposed to go beyond LEO :D but off course we want more for KSP. i've always suspected the shape off the caspule to take more heat by the side.

    That's why I was asking :D  Pushing things to the limits is very Kerbal!

    If coming back from the Mun is too much for the poor MRK then I'll just have to rethink my strategy... I'm already doing an Earth orbit rendezvous between two Ariane 44L to marry the MRK with a transfer stage (I haven't unlocked enough Ariane 5 parts yet to upgrade my launcher) so maybe I need to find some more delta v so that I can decelerate into LKO before doing a normal orbital reentry.

    Hmmm, thinking about it, that would give me a reason to rendezvous with my space station to generate more data for science! ;)

    [1.12.3] Knes 1.9.9

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    14 minutes ago, Well said:

    Thanks for the review, MRK Maxtemp was already upscaled in Knes 1.7.0 due to this problem. Are you sure you have at least the 1.8.2 installed ?

    (btw nothing is supposed to break with new Knes version)

    Anyway i'm going to investigate that in my install

    Can you precise also your difficulty setting ? for Rentry heat or did you play eventually with some other mod changing rentry like FAR ?

    Really sorry for your crew on this mission, hope you got some save

    Hi Well, thanks for the reply. It was a clean install of 1.8.2. I will check the difficulty setting tonight when I get into the game, but I’m not using FAR or anything else that would change the reentry (of course I will double check just to make sure!) :)

    I’ll start a sandbox save as well and run some test launches just to make sure it wasn’t a screw up on my part - it wouldn’t be the first time! Lol

    [1.12.3] Knes 1.9.9

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    Posted · Edited by facmanpob

    First I’d like to take the time to say that this mod is brilliant. It has a wonderful combination of parts that adds huge flavour to the game. Thank you for the time and effort that goes into its development.

    Second on to a quick question:

    I’m currently using KNES with JNSQ and had an unfortunate return from my first Mun mission with the MRK... namely the capsule burnt up at an altitude of 55km killing the crew. I’d tested it from low Kerbin orbit, but this was the first time from such a high orbital velocity. Have other people noticed problems with returning MRK from the Mun or Minmus? Or did I just get the angle of reentry to steep?

    Edit: I should add that I’m playing with v1.8.2 in KSP 1.10

    SPACE STATIONS! Post your pictures here

    in KSP1 The Spacecraft Exchange

    Posted · Edited by facmanpob

    Here's the Munar Gateway Station from my current career...

    Phase 1

    Serviced by an orbital tug on the far right and featuring a habitation module, utility module, cupola, airlock, station core module and additional life support equipment and docking node. Currently two of the 2-Kerbal Proteus spacecraft are docked along with a 2-Kerbal lander

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    Phase 2

    Serviced by a couple of orbital tugs (one is on a fuel delivery mission) and featuring an additional habitation module compared with the Phase 1 station. The station now features a 3-Kerbal lander (nadir port) and is now home to 5 Kerbals on a long term mission (Bobwig's crew is about to spend 30 days on the Munar surface in the big lander

    wbelYrC.png

    Mods used on the Station:

    SSPXr

    Universal Storage 2

    Near Future Solar

    [KSP 1.8 - 1.12+] - Probes Before Crew [PBC] Version 2.93

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    Just wanted to say what a great mod this is. &)  It has really reordered my thinking about how to go about the early career. I also wanted to share a little album highlighting this, and a post I made in a KSP facebook group I'm part of...

    Using Probes before Crew means that access to 3-Kerbal capsules comes a lot later than normal in a career. But for my first manned journey out to the Mun I wanted a Pilot for flying, an Engineer for fixing things that might break and a Scientist for resetting various experiments. So I had to get creative!

    Spoiler

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    imgur 1st Munar landing with PBC album

    [1.10.x] Mark IV Spaceplane System (August 3)

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    Just thought I'd show my latest creation. Running KSP 1.05 64-bit on an iMac in case anyone's wondering.

    The Mark IV multi-mode spaceplane (not very imaginative I know, but I'll name it later!)

    Mark 4 parts for the main body and intakes, Mark 2 parts for the lateral fuselage sections. Stock wings, control surfaces and tailplanes. The only other items are the dorsal strakes on the main hull and aerospikes on the lateral fuselage, which are both from Novapunch.

    The spaceplane is designed to get into orbit whilst using the KScale2 mod, which makes planets and orbits twice as big as stock, so delta-v to orbit is around 4,600 m/s, making the ascent and descent tricky from a heat management perspective. It can seat 16 kerbals, and has a small cargo bay fitted out with additional electrical storage, life support (TAC LS) and even a deployable solar array. I haven't worked out its full cargo capacity to LKO yet, but I suspect it will be approximately 5 tonnes, so nothing to write home about.

    Really enjoying making spaceplanes with this mod... I'm currently working on an alternative passenger-only version using the Vulture cockpit, and a cargo-only version using the standard cockpit as pictured.

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