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Its actually intended, the engine is a Bi-modal type, LH2 only or LH2 plus LiquidOxidizer... Therefor augmented mode for increased thrust but lesser ISP. The mechanics in this mod are really nifty, takes some time to use it properly, i struggle myself sometimes still...

Hi there, i think the basic idea of this excellent and epic mod is to use it in space exclusivly, i`ve never seen a winged SSTO on this forums with these mod parts... LH2 is very light and takes huge volumes to store, thats the culprit and the difference to LFO...

DUNA MISSION on KERBALISM! - "Why worry?" Asked Bob and explained further... "Its quite easy i think, we scrap the small rover, slap its wheels to the habitatlander and roll it down the hill some clicks, it looks much more friendlier down there and nobodys gonna fall out the bed during sleeping... Then Zelanda makes a little hardware update on the heavy `Kemaz Spez-D` and we are ready to go, with additional livingspace for the deserttrip... It might take a day or two, but basically its not that far as we now it from Kerbins scales. I have a truckdrivinglicence too, so all of us can take a drivingshift." Valentina and Zelanda together agreed... - "Okay, looks feasible, we are here now and the mysterious Dunaface is definetly a point of interest." Zelanda immediatly begins to disassemble the wheels and mount them to the lander... After some fiddly work it is rolled cautiously down the slope some kilometers... a extremely heavy construction, but Valentina and Bob get the job done safely... The wheels take the load without much problems. Zelanda picked up the others and returned to the former small rover to scrap it almost complete, even the malfunctioning boardinghatch is recovered, maybe it can still be of some use.... Thank Kod there`s KIS! All the gained parts are stowed in the various KIS containers or get directly attached to the "Kemaz Spez-D", which takes the additional weight with ease... Zelanda investigates the broken airlock back at the new position of "Mun 2", but it seems that the part is truely unrepairable, sadly... Bob and Valentina are examining the route to the Dunaface on mapview, and it looks like they will start allready the next day, when Zelanda finished the works on the Kemaz... Missioncontrol gave its okay too, nothing concerning so far...

Aerocapture on Duna is "easy" just have some radiators and don`be too shy... You can basically save all your fuel, but your landingite is then by chance (or well calculated)... Its quite hard to burn up a vessel coming in with solar orbit speeds... look the altitude and the mass of the ship (This came from Kerbin hohmannorbit trajectory, one dip was sufficient to circularize Duna at very low altitude. ) From my experience in 1.3 you can save way more than 1000 deltaV of fuel in one dive, probably much more depends where you`re coming from and how resistant the hull and structure is.

DUNA MISSION on KERBALISM! So let the madness begin... "Minmus 2" has made a precision landing just about 3.5km away from "Mun 2" and the large truck is in perfect shape, chances for success are rising significantly... Sadly both landers are sitting on a rather steep hillside but this wouldn`t be my mission if i could not find a relief for tipping bubblyzine bottles and crackers sliding off the habitat desks... "Minmus 2" descend, all system are go... Landing further westwards of the the Kerballed lander, on a even steeper slope... full success! The truck is remote controlled detached by Valentina and keeps on moving towards the landingsite of "Mun 2", fully packed with supplies and certain spare parts for unexpected events... Zelanda has constructed this truck herself and the inclined observer can recognize the familiar shape with krussian KEMAZ ICBR trucks, and in fact Zelandas daddy worked aswell in this company... And for the memorybooks... Zelanda, Bob and Valentina are currently discussing the fate of the smaller rover, the boardinghatch with the pressure system went "gone for good" as Kerbalism calls a terminal partfailure, and without pressure it doesn`t make much sense anymore to keep such vessel at all... However, Zelanda has lots of tools with her and... and Bob mentioned his eager wish to... - "Listen gals, i think we could make a trip to the ominous Dunaface further northeast... I am going to calculate the drivingtime and the amount of supplies needed for the trip... What do you both think about that?" - "...No way!!! Its way too far away!!!" - "...You`re nuts!!! What if lifesupport fails???" - "... Why worry?"

True, the "Minmus 2" fairing looks quite stubby-nosed, but i am doing this mission more about the mod mechanics... I could have make it in better shape, it bugs me really now... Constellation is in my opinion (which might be truely silly) the best mars proposal ever brought by NASA, very sad they didn`t get their butts off the chairs (No offense to any NASA member reading this ). Oh no, its the congress, sure... Oh no, the nuke treaty... sure... Oh no, the bills!!!.... sure...

DUNA MISSION on KERBALISM! Well, what should i say... mere words cannot tell what i`ve done today... Crewtransfer with "Potato 1" to "Mun 2" and starting the lifesupportsystems, powered descend to one of Dunas large valleys, Valentina, Zelanda and Bob have the pleasure to step on Dunas dusty grounds on Kerbalism: Docking and farewell to Jebediah, will they ever meet again? Jebediah returns alone to "Kerbin 2", eagarly waiting for the further missionprogress: And so the time has come for my brave Kerbonauts, the descendvessels lifesupport systems are spooling slowly up and cabin pressure is rising, Valentina spotted the landingzone and keeps on going with the descend maneuvers: After braking retrograde the vessel has been pointed forward... And the tension is rising... Waiting for the chutes to deploy and firing all engines, the ascendvehicles thrusters fire aswell, anything is tightly built and on the edge... We have ... touchdown! Hell yeah!!!! And my Kerbals plant a flag, as any proud spacefaring people... But this is not enough, the small rover is immediatly tested for roving duty...

DUNA MISSION on KERBALISM! Yeah its me again..., things look way better again than a few hours before, my little fleet of unscared Kerbals and autonomous vessels have reached Duna orbit, yeah! Shortly after reaching Duna SOI, Jebediah thawed his friends and discovered with great pleasure that glykerol seems to cure all the radiation damage done to Kerbals, Valentina disembarked the fridge as pristine and alive as would she`ve never been to space...! Looks like i`ve became some kind of absolution from a higher force... Valentina and Bob immediatly decided to put Jebediah into to the fridge before his status gets more worst, and Zelanda prepared herself for a extended EVA to inspect the "Kerbin 2" from the outside, looking for sna examining probable damages and weared parts on the ship... "Mun 2" and "Minmus 2" entered both Duna orbit by a real deep aerocapture to save as much LH2 as possible, who knows what still may happen out here... With rectracted antennas diving into Dunas atmosphere...: "Minmus 2", still no partfailures occured here, good ship...: Zelanda on EVA, getting proper engineering tools... She stated to do anything in her force to bring this mission to a success, she is from Krussia and a old schoolmate from Valentina... Zelanda on her inspection around the ship, checking all the parts...: Situation in orbit after "Kerbin 2"s powered brakemaneuver, all the vessels around Duna! And the final burn of the crewtransfervessel, obviously i`ve damaged the nuclearengines, corehealth has decreased to 96%, but this no big deal, if anything more worst happens one of the other propulsion stages would be docked to "Kerbin 2", nothing concerning so far... Zelandas missionlog is open for the curious, yes this Kerbal once orbited Laythe and took care of the transfervessel then! She has lots of experience with KIS and KAS, i am glad to have her with them...! She has also once been to Dres! Mission looks surprisingly good suddenly!!! Yes!!!

Hi ShotgunNinja, your epic mod is ... utterly epic... I am currently doing a adventurous mission to Duna, and i am trying do this quite seriously, so shortly after approaching Duna SOI i`ve encountered a critical malfunction on a rover which is attached to a descend/ascend lander, and i am really worried about the happenings... I know balancing is not on my side , but shouldn`t it be a possibilty to repair critical partfailures when the vessel it is on has landed? Please excuse my request but you know... I have a 5 star career engineer Kerbal in the crew... Your mods works great in my opinion, great work, excellent mechanics... Cheerz!

DUNA MISSION on KERBALISM! Hello all, my adventurous mission to Duna is going straight ahead, Jebediah has been thawed by Valentina and took the commands on "Kerbin 2", looks like the fridge is so heavily shielded that the fish Kerbals are keept fresh and unharmed from any radiation... Jebediahs first task was to perform midcourse correction burns on all the three vessels, aiming for a quite steep aerobrake maneuver at least for the both ships in fairings... "Kerbin 2" will likely make a powered brakemaneuver because some parts can`t sustain excessive aeroforces, we will see... Navigation went almost perfect, but other things aren`t looking that good anymore, let`s see what happened during coasting... Workshift on "Kerbin 2", let`s praise the fridge: Jebediah makes some precision maneuvers midcoarse, aswell the other vessels "Mun 2" and "Minmus 2" Duna and its magnetosphere, very unusual shape, blown to a ellipsoid from solar wind. Periapsis of "Kerbin 2" is very low for now, subject to change further in the approach. And to my very bad surprise, the small boardinghatch on the small rover attached to "Mun 2" experienced obviously a terminal system failure, lifesupport (pressure or scrubbing) on this part is literally scrapped for unknown reasons, oh crap... I`d love to make this unhappen but... damn! And close to Dunas orbit around Kerbol, i realized that Jebediah accumulated a rather high radiation dose of far more than... 33%... Kod forgive my sins.... There is not much anymore i can say about that, my feelings for my brave crew are getting really responsible and guilty... There is no excuse for that, i`m so sorry...

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Hi captainb, sorry i didn`t had the time to answer your questions further above, parts are from Nerteas NFT and StationPartsExpansion, regarding the rovers i`ll have to "drive safe" ... Mods are listed in the OP. NFT is basically a constellation engineering style mod, true, and the NASA proposal works also efficient in KSP... this goes light on partcount and logistics. The radiation load during the transfer is very concerning and i am in fact considering waking up Jeb and see how much dose he`s got in the heavy shielded fridge... I am wondering how the partfailures develop further in the journey, Zelanda can repair basically anything except the parts "are gone for good" as Kerbalism calls terminal partmalfunctions...

DUNA MISSION on KERBALISM! Hi people, yes we are still going strong here, my Kerbals actually left Kerbins Soi heading towards Duna! And while i had to dig deep down in the propulsion mod to solve a negative tankmass issue on all the LH2 fueltanks, i came to think about the unthinkable, the unspeakable... the loss of my crew to an ugly and pitty, sad death in the voids of space, due to my own stupidity and complete ignorance... I really hope that there is realistic chance to pull this mission to a happy end, whereever this may be, whatever my Kerbals achieved along the way... as long as they are alive. Okay, i made some pics and will give some comments, don`t know where to begin... Transferburn on the vessels went fine, staging worked well and engines had reliable thrust, "Kerbin 2" went ahead, followed shortly after by "Mun 2", and a day after them "Minmus 2" made its ejectionburn, tanks have been detached while burning without problems, higher quality of parts seems to pay off now, no partfailures occured untill Mun orbit altitude... "Kerbin 2" departure..., before staging the two lateral LH2 tanks, Valentina is piloting the vessel, all the other Kerbals have entered the DeepFreeze fridge and are allready asleep... "Mun 2" and "Minmus 2" at departure, "Mun 2" releasing the front tank, quite thight on deltaV after the propulsion mod hacking... Looks like we must perform some aerobraking at Duna, omg ... "Minmus 2" makes a great job untill now, not much to say here, quite a light assembly... Leaving Kerbins SOI changed alot in my personal mood, Valentina alone in this huge ship with all the other unguilty Kerbals on board... what the hell have i done? While checking the systems i noticed the radiation stress on Valentina, some 150 days in the journey, at half the stretch to Duna, and i really start feeling uncomfy when i see the stats... She allready accumulated a 13% lethal radiation dose, and this ain`t really funny... omgomgomg.... Occasional partfailures on the ships look silly now after discovering the literal decay of my crewmembers...

You are still the Greatest! Heads up! Thank you

eeerm it works perfectly in my install, and i`ve updated anything... i have Ksp in the background running actually and i can deplete the cryotanks, stage, engines have thrust, drymasses of all LH2 cryo tanks in my install are now positive and show values comparable to stock LFO drymasses... no joke. (Middle click in SPH/VAB shows precise dry/wetmass of parts btw) I use the patch for cryogenic fuel on all nuclearengines, also the stock one... @Nertea EDIT: The right cryotank picture, LH2 only, sorry!

Did allready someone investigate the negative masses on the cryo-tanks? I`ve came across some posts and now i realised that several tanks have inaccurate drymasses, and i am currently looking to edit them myself for suiting numbers... What would be a reference for a long 1.25, 2.5, 3.75 and 5m diameter cryotank? @Nertea, fyi EDIT: i solved the issue myself, there is a CryoFuelTankTypes patch in Cryotanks folder, and i changed the value for LH2 and LH2cryo (tanks) from 0.00007something to 0.00014something This works excellent on all the LH2cryo tanks and gives them a reasonable and balanced positive drymass, so i can continue my Kerbalism mission to Duna...

DUNA MISSION on KERBALISM! Hi all, i am back in business, after some tedious work and an incredible amount of problems with a annoying certain fuelflow issue on "Mun 2", my crew has finally launched to the transfership, now with proper shielding, higher overall partquality and more redundancy in the ship systems... "Potato 1" docked safely to the transfervessel, at least one ship worked as intended... "Kerbin 2" is now the home of four deathdefying Kerbals, none of them have a viable lifeinsurance anymore, the insurancecompanys threw their contracts out of the windows or into toilets with manic laughter... Time until Duna launchwindow is about twenty days from now, Jeb and co have some time left ali aside their homeplanet, and they keep watching the oceans and the mountains thinking about the snacks they left at the KSC... will they ever return here? Let`s see how it goes: "Potato 1" launch at night, bye bye Kerbals... "Potato 1" docks to "Kerbin 2", the slighty enhanced transfership and new home for the next months or even years among the stars... "Minmus 2" on its way to the transferinjectionorbit, around 1100km above kerbin, inbetween the radiation belts... All systems are go, no partfailures till now... Nukes are working well and give a nice warm glow... "Mun 2" at the parkingorbit, firing the nukes to orbit at 1100km altitude... This vessel has new extended LH2 storage, the smaller tank will be detached as soon we leave Kerbin... Here was a weird issue where the engines lost thrust for unknown reasons, i had to launch a large single piece LH2 and engine stage... The descendvessel has become rather heavy due to the high performance leadshielding, and so i slapped more parachutes to it, may Kod forgive my dumbness... And also the crew in "Kerbin 2" has arrived at higher orbit, they activated the lifesupportsystems, the centrifuge and all the other stuff, the single shieldgenerator has been put to work aswell, but doens`t make alot of difference... however, we have one and this is good so far. Zelanda began to study the ship and all the inventory, looking for snacks and such, not because she interested in engineering at all... Bob is napping in the large service module, Jeb and Val are together piloting the doom gracefull assembly of best stock and mod parts... The mission is close to the point of no return, T minus 20 days... This is the most intense adventure in my KSP gaming time, which is quite long... I`m nervous as hell...

DUNA MISSION on KERBALISM! "High quality lead coffins? - Yes please!" "High quality equipment? - That would be great!" "Patch-up your propulsion mods? - Excellent idea!" While preparing the crewlaunch to "Kerbin 1" and timewarping ahead to the next launchwindow, some major fatal flaws of the vessels became obvious... just some examples... - Partfailures due to poor standard quality basically scrapped the descend modules "Mun 1" and "Minmus 1", parachutes and even the descend engines, after 100 days in parking orbit both vessels became literally scrap... - Radition protection concerns, my badly planned lack of sufficient lead protection on some crewcompartments and the absence of any protection at both cupolas at all, made me utterly worry about the moral state of mine... - Critical problem on the "Kerbin 1" nuclear engine (Core meltdown to 84% due to ActionGroup issue) after 150 days timewarping towards transferwindow finally killed the actual mission design, i was close to tears while reading all the Kerbalism message windows... So i decided now to scrap all the current vessels in orbit and make a major refurbish on ground, more lead means more mass, more quality means more mass and more vessel mass means more propellent storage for some of the vessels, at least "Mun 1" needs additional LH2 storage to reach Duna orbit... And i am going for high quality equipment on every vessel, my Kerbals deserve the best chances they can get... Today i`ll relaunch all the systems and will continue the mission where i aborted it, at 200km parking orbit around Kerbin, 30 days before launchwindow. Heads up for the next missionupdate, thank you for your patience and understanding...

...Iktomi is a very nice comparison, thank you, i`ve googled it and from your signature i see you live at high latitude aswell... i hope my survival genes work out here... And greetings to you from scandinavia

Hi there, @JPLRepo For your personal amusement, your epic mod in serious action... Have a good time and greetings down under!

Hi there, @ShotgunNinja For your personal amusement, your epic mod in serious action... Greetings and have a good time!

...hmmm, make sure your mods play well with each other, Kerbalism uses a certain electrics consistency management, NFT and KerbalAtomics have their own aswell, other mods may be complicated and maybe incompatible at the end, and DeepFreeze is the only option to go interplanetary on Kerbalism, your vessel would grow ridiculous large and heavy having lots of awake Kerbals eating and drinking all day long... trust me i tried to go without DeepFreeze, no reasonable dice...

I decided to discard the use of LFO completly in this mission, all in all it saves partcount, mass and complexity, the monoprop engines come from NFT, they are not much better than stock though. I fiddled first around with LFO engines for various tasks but soon i made a clear cut for monoprop only. "Kerbin 1" carries a single shield generator which does absorb a small amount of external radiation, however i will see how my Kerbals do while fry errm napping in the cupolas ... You`re right about a eventual missionfail, it will be depicted and commented `till the probably ugly end... Thank you for your motivating and honest words!

DUNA MISSION on KERBALISM! Here we go again, i`ve done some orbital assembly and took some scenic pictures, and the crew has been chosen aswell, the Duna mission will be executed by: Jebediah Kerman, Pilot, Five stars, "My enormous experience in wrecking expensive crafts of any kind will benefit the mission for sure." Zelanda Kerman, Engineer, Five stars, "I like to disassemble stuff. And i like snacks." Valentina Kerman, Pilot, Five stars, "... Me... and Jeb.... ...oh... ...crap..." Bob Kerman, Scientist, Five stars, "We will face serious spacemadness, and i am glad to witness this." In the background a mockup of the crew transportation vessel called "Potato 1", it is in fact a 4 Kerbal orbital maneuvering craft, a small additional crew department is built in between commandpod and heatshield, it runs exclusivly on monoprop aswell and provides about 950dV fully loaded, and carries supplies for about 3 1/2 Kerbin days. It is planned to use this craft for Kerbin reentry if anything goes well, which looks highly doubtfull... Okay, so far so good, while assembling and checking "Kerbin 1", i`ve noticed first engineering mishaps, looks like i`ve forgot to add shields to both the cupolas at starboard and portside... oh no... Anyway, i won`t launch all the stuff again, the crew must deal with it, not me... The other vessels look quite good so far, i did not notice any strange things or other significant happenings, energy supply is stable and lifesupport is on standby untill Duna orbit... Ready for Dunatransit i might say: Scenic picture from the assembly of "Mun 1"...: I really appreciate all your comments, and i am really nervous about this mission...

... I wish you all the luck of Kerbin... Maybe think about it again... FAR + Kerbalism? You`ll need DeepFreeze at some point to go interplanetary for sure...