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Yeah, that makes sense... Don't know why I hadn't thought about that myself. Late night and KSP RO is not a good combo for thinking logically.Edit: The limit of two comes from the motors being mounted radially, and thus I need to be careful how much the parts extrude from the side of my lander assembly, otherwise they won't be shielded by the heat shield.

Hey guys, so I'm planning a mission to Mars. I have my first and second stages set up and they're using either Kerosene/LOx or Hydrogen/LOx (along with SRBs) as the booster stage because I don't have to worry about boiloff. I need a little help though. I'm having trouble coming up with a lander design that has enough TWR and dV to get back to Martian Low Orbit and thus return to Earth. I can't very efficiently use Kero/LOx or Hyro/LOx because of fuel boiloff and radiator assemblies are electrically expensive. At first I though hypergolics would be it, but none of the motors have the thrust to do it with just 2 engines (my whole Martian lander assembly is IIRC somewhere around 80 tonnes). I'm wondering if I should use an SRB assembly to get above the atmosphere, and then a mix of SRB and hypergolic motors to circularize and then further plot the return home. Any advice is appreciated, thanks in advance.

Well, I downgraded to 1.5.0 and it seems to be working fine now, no idea what its issue is.

Update on my problem: The problem also exists trying to use the CLI, and ckan.exe spits the following error out before crashing after i try ckan.exe update Unhandled Exception: System.Net.WebException: Unable to connect to the remote se rver ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: An attempt was made to access a so cket in a way forbidden by its access permissions 192.30.252.128:443 at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.DoConnect(EndPoint endPointSnapshot, SocketAddre ss socketAddress) at System.Net.ServicePoint.ConnectSocketInternal(Boolean connectFailure, Sock et s4, Socket s6, Socket& socket, IPAddress& address, ConnectSocketState state, IAsyncResult asyncResult, Exception& exception) --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadFile(Uri address, String fileName) at CKAN.Net.Download(String url, String filename, IUser user) at CKAN.Net.Download(Uri url, String filename, IUser user) at CKAN.Repo.UpdateRegistry(Uri repo, Registry registry, KSP ksp, IUser user, Boolean clear) at CKAN.Repo.Update(RegistryManager registry_manager, KSP ksp, IUser user, Bo olean clear, Uri repo) at CKAN.CmdLine.MainClass.Update(UpdateOptions options, RegistryManager regis try_manager, KSP current_instance, IUser user) at CKAN.CmdLine.MainClass.Main(String[] args) Apparently I can't spoiler code, lol.

Interstellar Mods DT Vista Inertial Fusion drive comes to mind, absolutely ridiculous dV at low thrust levels.

Hmmm, wonder if the folder is hidden then. Still the symptom remains that my CKAN.exe can't access the master.zip. Any ideas why that might be?

Hey guys, I seem to have encountered a problem with CKAN. I keep getting failed to connect to repository errors when I try to refresh it. After about a half hour of digging, I checked git-hub. The default git-hub repo CKAN-meta that the CKAN.exe looks for the master.zip doesn't contain an archive folder anymore. Maybe I'm missing something, software is not my forte, I deal with firmware and hardware so take that with a grain of salt, but from what I'm seeing, the master zip no longer exists on git-hub.