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BDB is a very large mod and it could be that your PC is underpowered to handle it smoothly. Or you may have mis-installed something and it is spamming messages to your log file causing the game to slow down. We'd need to see your log files to know what your problem is:

In a text editor create a new blank file and copy in the following: @KSP-Recall:FINAL { @PawEntries = false } Inside your <KSP>/GameData folder create a new folder (you could call it anything you want that doesn't clash with the name of any mod - I suggest Z_MyPatches). Save your text file into that folder with a .cfg file extension. The filename can be anything e.g. KSPRecallNoPAW.cfg To learn more about ModuleManager patching, have a look at:

Excerpt from Pathé news Monday 14th November 1955 “In another exchange deal with the Americans, Puck Aerospace once again launched one of their Bailey cameras on a Yeti II rocket from Merrit Island in Florida. Travelling over 540 km north from the launch site, it took detailed high-altitude pictures of the mainland US beneath it. “Chief Administrator Mr Vincent Glasgow said afterwards that he believed that they had probably extracted as much information out of these suborbital camera tests as they were going to and that the focus of the organisation would now switch to developing and testing an orbit capable launch vehicle. The first test flight of the first rocket is expected to take place in March or April next year.” Excerpt from Pathé news Monday 2th April 1956 "PUCK AEROSPACE READY TO TRY FOR ORBIT" “Anyone who has been paying attention to the news, knows that there have been rumours for a couple of years now of programmes underway in both the Soviet Union and United States of America to place an artificial satellite in orbit around the Earth. Recently, there has been a new contender, Puck Aerospace, the brainchild of excentric multimillionaire Peadar Ùisdean Cameron Kincaid. In November last year they announced that they were moving on from the suborbital rockets they have flown so successfully lately to make an attempt to build an actual orbital launch vehicle. “Today at a press conference in his offices in Kourou, French Guiana, Mr Kincaid announced that the rocket is now ready and is undergoing final testing on the launch pad prior to a planned launch of Wednesday. The members of the press were taken on a tour of the launch facility a few kilometres north of town, culminating in a look at the rocket itself standing proudly on its launch pad. “Standing just over 24 metres tall and, according to the engineers, weighing in at a little over 25 tons, it certainly looked impressive in the blue, white and black livery that has become familiar from other Puck Aerospace rockets. Hidden away inside a protective cowling at the very summit of the rocket, we were told, sat the satellite itself. A small half metre cone of metal, weighing a mere 50 kilograms, most of that being the batteries that will power it. “While carrying some scientific instruments, the chief engineer Mr Monty Scott, admitted that the batteries would only be sufficient to power them for a few hours before they would need to be shut down to conserve energy and allow the satellite to continue transmitting regular radio beeps to allow it to be tracked by observers on the ground. Even in this low power configuration, he said, the satellite would only be able to send out its signals for a few days before falling silent forever. “I think I can speak for everyone present when I say that we are all eagerly looking forward to the launch on Wednesday.” Excerpt from Pathé news Wednesday 4th April 1956 "WORLD'S FIRST ARTIFICIAL SATELLITE LAUNCHED" “’If I have seen further today, it is because I stand on the back of giants.’ Starting his press conference today in Kourou, French Guiana, Peadar Kincaid was in a jubilant mood as he quoted Sir Isaac Newton’s famous saying from three centuries ago. Why was he in such a good mood you might ask? Because his little upstart aerospace company had just achieved something that had eluded the might of the American and Soviet space programmes. Today, they launched the Earth’s first artificial satellite. Circling the Earth, high above our heads is a small metal cone packed full of batteries and electronics, triumphantly proclaiming its presence to amateur radio operators all over the world as it passes overhead. Elaborating on his company’s achievement, Mr Kincaid acknowledged the considerable contributions in skill, technology and experience that they had received from many countries around the world, especially from Hawker Siddeley who manufactured the engines used in today’s rocket and the manufacturing breakthroughs that had allowed the construction of much lighter but still immensely strong fuel tanks. He further explained that it was his conviction that it had been through working as a small team with a single unified goal that they had been able to achieve what had escaped the grasp of the more fragmented efforts of their larger competitors…” Excerpt from Pathé news Friday 27th April 1956 “Puck Aerospace, today announced that they had hired French pilot Marguerite Laurent as their first test pilot for their fledgling X-Planes programme. Marguerite has several years’ experience as a test pilot for Avion Marcel Dassault (a French aircraft manufacturer) and will initially be trained in the handling of the Hawker Siddeley experimental rocket planes. The training is expected to take a couple of months after which she will be taking HSXR-02 Nessie for its first flight and attempting to break the sound barrier and achieve some (company) speed and altitude records. Excerpt from Pathé news Tuesday 19th June 1956 “A heavy transport plane took off from the new 4800m extended runway at Kourou in French Guiana today, carrying a most unusual cargo. Tucked under the right wing was a small plane, and not just an ordinary plane either. This one was the second Hawker Siddeley eXperimental Rocketplane – the HSXR-02 Nessie, fitted with a powerful rocket engine that was intended to take it through the sound barrier and high up above the ground. The first HSXR plane was flown three years ago from the Woomera Royal Air Force base in southern Australia by RAF Flight Lieutenant Peter Simonson. “Alas, it was not meant to be, as pilot Marguerite Laurent discovered when she dropped away from the carrier plane and pressed the button to ignite the rocket engine. Despite performing flawlessly during a ground test just the week before, on the day, something went wrong and the engine just failed to ignite. Cycling the systems and making a second attempt got no response whatsoever, so Marguerite was left with the sad realisation that she didn’t have enough height or speed to glide all the way back to Kourou and would need to ditch the plane in the Atlantic. “Fortunately, the weather was calm, with only a moderate swell, so as she eased the plane down at a little less than 200 kph, only moderate damage was done to the airframe. The failed engine would have needed to be replaced anyway, so submerging it in salt water was not an issue. “A support boat was dispatched from Kourou harbour to collect Mlle Laurent, and a barge will be sent to recover the plane.” Excerpt from Pathé news Friday 3rd August 1956 "THIRD WOMAN BREAKS THE SOUND BARRIER" “Mademoiselle Marguerite Laurent again boarded her experimental rocket plane at Puck Aerospace’s Kourou facility in French Guiana today. The carrier aircraft once more took her 350 km off shore before she released the X-Plane from under its wing and ignited her rocket engine. This time, unlike the prior flight, the engine lit without a problem and Mlle Laurent began picking up speed and gently pitching up into a shallow climb. She reached a peak altitude of just over 20 km at 535 ms-1 before levelling off and throttling down to hold her speed between 450 and 520 ms-1 as required by the pre-flight planning. “Roughly nine minutes later, her fuel was exhausted and she pitched down to glide safely back to land at the Kourou runway, travelling at a comparatively sedate 51.5 ms-1. “Mlle Laurent is the third woman to break the sound barrier, following in the footsteps of American Jackie Cochran and Jacqueline Auriol from France who both flew faster than sound in 1953. She is however, the first woman to do so in a rocketplane.” ==== Gameplay notes and screenshots:

Except CKAN does show IFS as having a dependency on CTT. IFS core doesn't have it as a dependency or recommendation.

@Shadow Wolf TJC There are two parts in the HabTech2 mod that use ht2_02 tanks. The patch you list only fixes one of them. Try this - if I got it right it should fix both (untested): !B9_TANK_TYPE[ht2_02]:NEEDS[HabTech2] { } // Check this NEEDS as it used to be FOR @PART[*]:HAS[@MODULE[ModuleB9PartSwitch]:HAS[@SUBTYPE:HAS[#tankType[ht2_02]]]]:NEEDS[HabTech2] { @MODULE[ModuleB9PartSwitch]:HAS[#moduleID[tankSwitch]] { @SUBTYPE:HAS[#tankType[ht2_02]] { @name = Air @tankType = KSAir @title = #simplexresources_air } } }

That looks good. A hint for designing KSP flags is to first design them at an 8:5 ratio then stretch them to 512 x 256 for use in game. That way any circular features on the flag won't get distorted by the slightly weird way that KSP handles displaying flags.

In addition to the official documentation linked by @JonnyOThan, you may also find this thread useful:

I haven't tested it myself yet in stock, but earlier builds definitely had problems with turning RCS on proactively, which some of my space planes did NOT like.

@DaveyJ576 Are you using the release or dev version of MJ? The last couple of dev releases are related to RCS ullage for Realism Overhaul and trying to fix non-Real Fuels behaviour.

The exclamation mark at the front of that line tells Module Manager to delete the element it refers to. If there aren't other patches that replace the ht2_02 tank type with something else in part definitions then that would be a problem. EDIT: Actually looking at this further I think it might be the following line that is more of a problem. Mods should not be using FOR clauses for other mods. That FOR[HabTech2] should be changed to a NEEDS[HabTech2] or AFTER[HabTech2] (it depends on how HabTech2 itself is configured.

No, CKAN shows that mod version 1.3.1 is compatible with KSP 1.8.0 to 1.11.99 (which means it is most likely also compatible with KSP 1.12.5 - and I've used in on such without problems)

The current version's thread is here: I assume you mean this ring? As you can see I'm not seeing your problem on my own RP-1 Express build, did you install all the recommended mods or any extra mods not from the RP-1 recommended list? (Smart Parts is my only parts adding mod so far)

Finished the initial sub-orbital programmes for my latest RSS RP-1 playthrough by 3 October 1955 (in game date). All flights are being automated as fully as I can using a combination of KOS, Smart Parts and MechJeb and I'm reporting on all the flights and major decisions in a "news reporter style" thread, illustrated with "newspaper photo" AI generated art work and photoshopped screenshots:

Excerpt from Pathé News, Tuesday 28th December 1954 “Puck Aerospace’s last rocket launch of the year seemed to start off well, with the latest Yeti III rocket blasting off from their new launch complex in French Guiana and soaring gracefully into a clear blue sky. But only a little more than a minute later, the engine developed a slight fault resulting in a precipitous drop in power. Despite continuing on gamely until its fuel was exhausted and a successful ignition and separation of the Arrow upper stage, the fault had taken its toll and the rocket burned up almost 400 km short of the planned target distance of 3000 km. “Despite the failure, Puck Aerospace’s chief engineer, Mr Monty Scott, was surprisingly upbeat when talking to the press afterwards. He pointed out that despite the rocket not achieving the designated distance, it had set new company records for speed, altitude and distance. Only one of the two engines had developed a problem and all the other systems had apparently worked flawlessly. They had also gathered a lot of telemetry data from the engine, which would be examined, both by his team and by the engineers at the rocket’s manufacturer, Hawker Siddeley Dynamics, in England and he was hopeful that between them they would find the source of the failure and rectify it prior to the next Scorpion being ready towards the end of February next year.” Monday 28th February 1955. “Puck Aerospace, today attempted to launch another of their Yeti III Scorpion rockets from their facilities in Kourou, French Guiana. Another flawless ignition, saw the rocket climb smoothly as it arced away to the east, beginning to spin slowly as it rose higher to help with stability during the final stages of its flight. Ninety seconds later, the technicians monitoring the telemetry signals from the rocket reported a clean ignition and separation of the Arrow upper stage and the rocket continued to accelerate smoothly until its fuel was exhausted. After that it was just a matter of waiting and tracking its progress. Going faster and higher than any previous Puck Aerospace rocket, expectations were high that it would easily reach the target 3000 km distance from Kourou. “About twenty minutes after launch, the rocket was detected by tracking systems aboard the Puck Marine Salvage Vessel, Pieces of Eight, stationed in the Eastern Atlantic nearly 300 km south of the Cape Verde islands and 700 km west of the African coast. Triangulation of the signals placed the rocket roughly 650 km up and travelling at around 17,000 kph. The ship continued to monitor the rocket’s flight as it passed slightly south of them until it dropped below their horizon on its journey eastward. Estimates place its final point of re-entry and destruction in the Earth’s atmosphere 12 degrees 43½ minutes north by 17 degrees 37¼ minutes west, just 90 km west of the Senegal district in French West Africa, and almost 4000 km from the launch site. “Speaking on behalf of Puck Aerospace, Chief Administrator Vincent Glasgow hailed the launch as a complete success and a marvellous vindication of the Yeti III rocket’s capabilities. He stated that plans were already in progress to add a small intermediate stage to the rocket and extend its range even further.” Excerpt from Pathé News Thursday 10th March 1955 “Puck Aerospace today launched another of their Bailey camera systems on a Yeti II rocket, this time aiming to fly southwards over the northern Amazonian rainforest. The rocket performed flawlessly, rising to almost 220 km above the Earth while travelling 560 km over the jungle to the south. While able to track the rocket quite precisely during its flight, its exact landing spot is uncertain and a small beacon inside the instrument package will send intermittent radio beeps for the next several days to allow the recovery team to find it amongst the dense trees. “Speaking from the Kourou launch site, lead researcher Angus McLean admitted that the difficulty of retrieving the camera package from the dense Amazonian rainforest was a distinct disadvantage compared with the relatively easy recovery of splashed down cameras from the Atlantic. However, he stated that the potential scientific discoveries to be made from analysing the high-altitude photography of the area outweighed the inconvenience in his opinion.” Excerpt from Pathé News Thursday 2nd June 1955 “Another flight by the Puck Aerospace’s Yeti series of rockets ran into problems today over French Guiana. On what should have been a routine photography gathering flight south over the rainforest, the HSD-100 engine powering the rocket experienced a partial failure of the pump feeding fuel into the combustion chamber just 40 seconds after lift-off. This slowed the rate at which fuel could be burned and reduced the thrust being produced lowering the rocket’s performance. It also meant that there was still a considerable amount of fuel still in the tank when the engine reached its designed life time and the continued burning of the engine lead to a second partial failure and further reduction in performance just over a minute later, followed just 10 seconds after that by the complete shutdown of the engine despite a small amount of fuel remaining unused. “All these issues combined contributed to the rocket failing to reach its designed altitude and range, although, according to their spokesman, the peak height of 117km and just over 400 km distance it travelled should still garner some useful results from the photographs and instrument readings taken. “As always follows these engine problems, engineers at Puck Aerospace and Hawker Siddeley are pouring over the telemetry data to attempt to determine the cause and whether it can be fixed in future iterations of the engine.” Excerpt from Pathé News Saturday 30th July 1955 “Today marked Puck Aerospace’s first attempt to launch a three-stage rocket, the Yeti III Ballista. It used the same first and upper stages from the Yeti III Scorpion that flew, successfully, in February. Between those stages, a small additional conical fuel tank with three U-2000 engines (the same as on the upper Arrow stage) was added to give the final stage a little extra kick and send it even higher and further than before. “The launch started well, with the Yeti III booster performing flawlessly. The technicians at mission control waited tensely to see if all three engines on the second stage would ignite successfully, which they did and things were looking promising as they steadily burned through their fuel and there was only a tried and trusted Arrow upper stage still to go. But it was not meant to be, and the U-2000 engine on the final stage failed to start. Without the extra energy from that last stage, the rocket ‘only’ reached a peak altitude of 338 km and a distance of 1500 km. “Their next attempt at the 5000 km distance record will likely be in October.” Excerpt from Pathé News Monday 22nd August 1955 “Yesterday, Puck Aerospace launched their third Bailey camera over the French Guianan rainforest aboard a Yeti II rocket. The flight proceeded splendidly, with the engine firing at full power until the fuel was exhausted. The rocket then continued to soar on a ballistic arc, carrying it to a peak height of nearly 210 km and over 570 km south of its launch site. How well the cameras performed remains to be seen, but telemetry from the flight suggests they also operated nominally.” Excerpt from Pathé News Monday 3rd October 1955 “Today at Kourou in French Guiana, Puck Aerospace launched their second Yeti Ballista rocket and unlike their last attempt, all five engines performed flawlessly and the rocket easily exceeded the 5000 km distance goal with its 50 kg science package. Initial reports place the final destruction of the rocket somewhere high above the border between French Upper Volta, French Togoland and British Togoland, almost directly along the 0° meridian. More than 5800 km and 28½ minutes flight from its original launch point. “Once verification has been received from various observation stations on the ground in the region, this will mark the conclusion of the last development milestone in the contract signed between Puck Aerospace and Nova Alba on 15th January ‘51. “With another successful launch and significant improvements in performance and range, it looks like Puck Aerospace are close to catching up and perhaps even exceeding the longer established American and Soviet space programmes.” ==== Gameplay notes:

The place I'd start to try diagnosing this would be the Module Manager log (in your <KSP>/logs/ModuleManager folder). If you post that on a file sharing web site (e.g. Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive etc.) and link it here, I'll take a look to see if there's anything obvious. You might also want to post a copy of your main log for more general debugging of your issue:

Excerpt from Pathé News Saturday 17th July 1954 "In a surprise deal with the Americans, Puck Aerospace's second Yeti III rocket, was launched today from Merritt Island in Florida. Use of the launch site near Port Canaveral was arranged as part of a cross licencing agreement for various aerospace technologies developed by Puck Aerospace. The Yeti III rocket performed flawlessly, perhaps in order to impress the foreign dignitaries gathered to view this very unusual event - the first completely foreign built rocket launched from American soil since the testing of the confiscated V-2 rockets in the aftermath of World War II. "The flight plan today was simple, carrying a large package of scientific instruments and a pressurised habitat housing a pygmy marmoset by the name of Isabelle, straight up to test her reactions to the various rigours of space flight and the environment of space a few hundred kilometres above Earth. "The rocket reached a peak speed of over 2.5 kilometres per second (more than 9000 kph) as it climbed just over 450 kilometres into the sky above Florida. The return capsule containing Isabelle's habitat detached cleanly from the launch booster and after a rather toasty trip through the upper atmosphere, it had slowed sufficiently because of air resistance for a pair of parachutes to be deployed at 5000 metres to bring it gently back to the surface. "Initial examinations indicate that Isabelle suffered no ill effects during the 17 minute flight, although she was reportedly somewhat understandably upset and confused by the novel experience. The medical staff will be keeping her under observation for the next several months to ensure that no hidden problems manifest, but all involved are of the opinion that like most of the previous animals sent into space by the Americans and Soviets, Isabelle is none the worse for her experience." Excerpt from Pathé News Thursday 11th November 1954 "The last flight of Puck Aerospace's Zombie Arrow sounding rocket for 1954 performed immaculately once more today, carrying its science package over 210 km into the edge of space above French Guiana. With this flight, Puck Aerospace declared that all the goals of their scientific development programme with the French government had been completed more than six months ahead of schedule. "After congratulating Mr Kincaid on surpassing their goals for the project by such a large margin, Prefect Robert Vignon, announced that the French government was now convinced that Puck Aerospace would soon be able to get science packages to orbit the planet for days at a time gathering a host of new information about the world we call home. In light of this, and to speed the process along faster, they have signed a further development contract to rapidly develop the vehicles necessary to send sizable instruments into space. This 45 month contract will offer Puck Aerospace a sizeable funding boost with which to hire new staff and build new facilities and equipment in the furthering of this goal. The French government is not funding this endeavour alone, however, but as part of a multi-national initiative in association with The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and the UK. Although all countries that were heavily impacted economically by the World War less than a decade ago, they are already seeing significant benefits from investments made in technological innovation, that are helping speed the rebuilding of their economies." ==== Gameplay notes:

Excerpt from Pathé News Friday 31st July 1953 "Puck Aerospace began construction today on a new launch centre for the next generation of heavier Yeti III rockets. The new facility will be rated to handle up to 25 ton rockets and is expected to be completed by mid December with the first launch from the new site occurring early next year. In the meantime, the several more Arrow and Yeti II flights will be regularly scheduled." Excerpt from Pathé News Friday 21st August 1953 "Puck Aerospace once again launched another Zombie Arrow III sounding rocket from their facilities in French Guiana. Soaring to just over 217 km. This marked the 12th successful launch of the Arrow programme, with only two failures." Excerpt from Pathé News Monday 24th August 1953 "Puck Aerospace announced today that construction work at their new launch centre in French Guiana has run into some unexpected difficulties that have slowed work considerably. These delays are expected to push back the completion of the facility until February next year. In an interview with a local Kourou newspaper, site foreman and chief engineer Guillaume de Lautour said that while digging the foundations they had found some problems with fractured rock layers that had not shown up in the initial survey boreholes. To prevent the rock structures collapsing completely under the weight of the launch pad and rockets, it will be necessary to dig out the unstable rock layer and replace it with proper foundation material to provide the appropriate support." Excerpt from Pathé News Thursday 19th November 1953 "The thirteenth successful flight of a Puck Aerospace Zombie Arrow sounding rocket once more roared high into the sky above Kourou in French Guiana today. Reaching a peak altitude of only 211 km." Excerpt from Pathé News Tuesday 8th December 1953 "A Yeti II rocket again carried a Bailey survey camera package and science payload high into the skies over the French Guianan coastline. Reaching a peak altitude of 251km it travelled almost 500km during its brief 12 and a half minute flight. Angus McLean, the lead researcher in Puck Aerospace's space photography department, announced that the recovered film had been developed and showed that the slight adjustments to the camera equipment were functioning even better than expected. He also stated that he believed there would be little benefit to launching another camera over the Atlantic and that the next flight would be targeted inland instead to capture some high altitude imagery of the northern Amazonian rainforests and the Tumuc Humac mountains." Excerpt from Pathé News Wednesday 17th February 1954 "Puck Aerospace's first rocket launch of 1954 went flawlessly today, as a Zombie Arrow sounding rocket once more effortlessly soared more than 200km into the sky above Kourou in French Guiana." Excerpt from Pathé News Saturday 15th May 1954 "Surprisingly, today marked only the second rocket launch from Puck Aerospace's Kourou launch centre in 1954. This was also their most controversial flight yet, with a number of people objecting quite volubly to Mr Peadar Kincaid's decision to override the science team's planned trajectory for the latest rocket, sending it south-east along the coast rather than south over the Amazonian forest. Defending his decision to the press after the flight, Mr Kincaid argued that being able to take advantage of the Earth's rotation beneath the flying rocket to increase its range and by directing it over more varied and interesting geography, they had been better able to maximise the science expected to be gained from the examination of the photos taken during the rocket's planned 17 minute flight. Which, he reminded everyone, had proceeded flawlessly from launch to splash-down over 600 kilometres away in the Atlantic Ocean, 230 kilometres north of Belém, Brazil. "He dismissed arguments that the rocket's path had taken it recklessly close to the town of Kourou itself and that its proximity to the airport had placed planes at risk. Pointing out that they always worked closely with the local air traffic control authorities to ensure that their rocket launches did not coincide with any flights taking off or landing at the airport. So passing closer to the airport on this flight did not represent any significant increased risk. As for the fears of some people that a faulty rocket might have fallen on Kourou or one of the towns further down the coast, possibly causing considerable damage to property and potential loss of life, he suggested that the threat had been greatly exaggerated by certain scare-mongering parties and the normal range safety precautions would have seen the safe destruction of the rocket long before it could fall on anyone's house. The greatest likelihood of failure, he pointed out, was generally within the earliest parts of the flight or as the rocket was nearing the end of its planned burn. Neither of those times, coincided with arcs of the rockets trajectory where a sudden engine failure would cause it to crash somewhere dangerous." Excerpt from Pathé News Tuesday 18th May 1954 "Despite controversy over the weekend about the chosen path of their last rocket launch, Puck Aerospace were today again launching another Zombie Arrow rocket straight up from their facilities in Kourou, French Guiana. When questioned about today's launch, Chief Administrator Vincent Glasgow told reporters that the ongoing series of Arrow rocket launches had demonstrated a perfect safety record and did not in any way endanger any nearby areas. Even the two failures, he further pointed out, had been safely destroyed by the range safety officer as soon as a problem was confirmed, and long before there had been any risk to anyone." Excerpt from Pathé News Saturday 17th July 1954 "Puck Aerospace suffered another set-back today as their first attempt at launching the third generation Yeti rocket from their newest launch complex at the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana, experienced an engine failure shortly after take-off and had to be aborted. "The Yeti rocket was powered by an upgraded variant of Hawker Siddeley Dynamics largest rocket engine, the HSD-103 and was intended to act as the first stage of Puck Aerospace's most ambitious rocket to date. Dubbed the Scorpion (after the medieval siege weapon that threw oversized arrows, not the ten legged animal with a stinger in its tail), the second stage was based on the fourth generation Arrow rocket which it was hoped would be launched more than three thousand kilometres out over the Atlantic and most of the way to Africa, before burning up completely during its fiery high speed re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. "Engineers from both Puck Aerospace and Hawker Siddeley are pouring over the telemetry returned from the rockets brief flight and hope to discover the cause of the engine's premature shut-down and rectify it prior to the planned launches of further Yeti IIIs later in the year. "Mr Kincaid and Mr Glasgow gave a joint interview to the press who had gathered to watch the launch, stating that while disappointing, even failures could teach us a great deal about how to design better rockets going forward." Excerpt from Pathé News Tuesday 16th August 1954 "Another successful launch today at Kourou Space Centre, demonstrated the reliability of Puck Aerospace's Zombie Arrow series of rockets. This was the 16th successful flight of this rocket, with only two failures. Compared to this, their heavier Yeti rockets seem much poorer in comparison with only X successes out of seven flights.

Excerpt from Pathé News Monday 14th July 1952 "Despite the local Bastille Day holiday in France, Puck Aerospace were as hard at work as ever. Today announcing a new major contracting deal with the Douglas Aircraft Company for technical and engineering support. Puck Aerospace stated that shaving off weight wherever possible was crucial to designing ever more efficient rocket systems and it was believed that American company's experience in working with lighter materials in their aircraft and missile development would contribute greatly to this endeavour, including the start of a project to replace the heavy steel fuel tanks used on the Zombie Arrow and Yeti rockets with lighter, yet equally tough, aluminium tanks. "This announcement follows a similar agreement with Hawker Siddeley Dynamics for joint development of rocket engine technology, following the successful first flight of the Puck Aerospace's Yeti rocket last month." Excerpt from Pathé News Monday 28th July 1952 "Puck Aerospace today launched another Zombie Arrow sounding rocket. Marking their 7th successful launch with only one failure, the Zombie series of rockets is proving to be a highly effective programme." Excerpt from Pathé News Saturday 25th October 1952 "Puck Aerospace once again launched a Zombie Arrow sounding rocket high above the atmosphere, reaching a new best altitude of 180 km." Excerpt from Pathé News Saturday 25th October 1952 "It has been a busy few days for Puck Aerospace, following their successful launch of a Zombie Arrow sounding rocket, they followed it up today with the second launch of their Yeti I rocket with a Bailey camera package. The flight proceeded smoothly, with none of the last minute engine problems that had delayed the first launch. The camera took a large number of photographs during its more than 11 minute flight, as the rocket carried it just over 400 km downrange and to a peak altitude of 170 km above the Atlantic Ocean. "This marked the final flight of the current design of Yeti rocket, as the next rocket will feature new aluminium construction based on Puck Aerospace's joint development contract with the Douglas Aircraft Company." Excerpt from Pathé News Friday 25th January 1953 "Their first launch of 1953 brought disappointment for Puck Aerospace, today, as their Zombie Arrow sounding rocket underperformed slightly and just failed to reach its 130 km altitude goal. They are not too disheartened, as the next generation of solid rocket boosters have arrived from their suppliers and they anticipate the next launch will more than exceed the designated target altitude." Excerpt from Pathé News Wednesday 25th February 1953 "Puck Aerospace's new aluminium bodied Yeti II rocket was rolled out to the launch site for its test flight today, but last minute inspection showed a flaw in the onboard guidance systems and it was returned to the assembly building for repairs." Excerpt from Pathé News Tuesday 24th March 1953 "Pre-flight inspection before today's second launch attempt of Puck Aerospace's Yeti II rocket, turned up a minor misconfiguration in the flight guidance switches but this was able to be quickly rectified on site and the rocket was cleared for launch from their complex at Kourou in French Guiana. The rocket rose gracefully into the clear morning sky but misfortune struck again, as the engine failed just 57 seconds into the flight. Despite only reaching 61 km of altitude and 84 km distance, the separation of the science payload and camera was flawless and they were fished out of the Atlantic Ocean 40 minutes later by the recovery boat. One hopes that the seeming glut of bad luck that has surrounded this rocket will not carry over to their next attempt." Excerpt from Pathé News Monday 11th May 1953 "Despite Puck Aerospace's recent run of bad luck, today's flight of their Zombie Arrow III rocket went off without a hitch. The brief 12 minute flight carried a small capsule containing several dozen fruit flies over 200km into the skies above sunny Kourou, French Guiana, before parachuting them safely back to Earth. While this may seem trivial compared to the reports of monkeys flown several years ago by the Americans and Soviets, it does mark another milestone in Puck Aerospace's burgeoning space programme." Excerpt from Pathé News Saturday 23rd May 1953 "Another rocket launch by Puck Aerospace flew from French Guiana today, carrying a 75 kg scientific payload nearly 200km skywards." Excerpt from Pathé News Monday 6th July 1953 "Yesterday, Puck Aerospace once more attempted to launch their new Yeti II rocket as part of their launch vehicle development programme. It once again carried another Bailey camera payload and 500 kg of other instruments. The flight proceeded flawlessly, setting new company records for speed and altitude while easily exceeding the targets set for this flight. Twelve and a half minutes later, the camera and instrument package splashed down safely in the waters 500 km from its starting point." Excerpt from Pathé News Saturday 11th July 1953 "Another canister of fruit flies was lofted into the skies above French Guiana by a Puck Aerospace rocket today. With a larger package of instruments onboard, the flies flew over 170 km straight up and were returned home safely once more. One wonders how the flies felt about experiencing both a peak acceleration of more than nine and a half time the normal gravity on the surface of the Earth and several minutes of floating in free-fall at the top of their arc?" ===== Gameplay notes:

@Atsushi Y. Yes, that is expected behaviour. Part of the contract system, both in stock and with Contract Configurator mod packs is to offer contracts based on whether you have enough reputation for the contractors to think you can complete them. Your current reputation is shown in the middle gauge at the top of your screen, you gain reputation for completing milestones (like orbiting new worlds or landing on them) and by completing contracts. You lose reputation for failing contracts, crashing vessels and especially for killing kerbals. The less reputation you have the less variety of contracts will be shown and some contracts may not show up at all unless your reputation is high enough. Not all contracts offer reputation for completing them. Contract Configurator shows any reputation gain being offered in the rewards section at the bottom of the contract details screen marked with a star * Picture showing where reputation is displayed (red boxes): Reputation is also shown on the pop up screen when you recover a vessel: And on the load save dialog:

The difference as Cheesecake stated is how you pay for your training. BDB and SSPX have chosen to implement the "realistic" it takes time and charge method, whereas the default generic configs choose the "gamey" pay with science method. I suggest you decide which better suits your particular play style for this save and then write a personal MM patch to standardise on that version of the lab.

Excerpt from Pathé News Wednesday 13th June 1951 "Puck Aerospace once again attempted to launch a rocket towards the edge of space. Unfortunately, unlike their first launch on the 20th April, this flight finished much more abruptly, when the U-1250 engine powering the main ascent stage of the rocket failed just seconds into the flight. Speaking to the press after the event, Mr Kincaid, the founder and chief executive of Puck Aerospace, said 'While we are sad that this second flight did not achieve its goals, these sorts of failures are only to be expected when working with such complicated and still experimental technology. Telemetry transmitted from the rocket during its brief flight is already being examined by our scientists and engineers, as well as those at the engine's manufacturer. Hopefully, the analysis will be helpful in preventing the next rocket, scheduled to fly in about a month's time, from meeting the same fate.' We here at Pathé News wish them well with their endeavours." Excerpt from Pathé News Monday 23rd July 1951 "Puck Aerospace's third flight of their Zombie Arrow rocket went off without a hitch yesterday, when a 75 kg scientific package was launched to a maximum altitude of 112 km, well above the minimum target altitude of 80 km. Readings returned from the instruments recorded changes in the composition, temperature and pressure of the Earth's atmosphere at high altitudes, as well as more detailed information on the performance of the rocket itself and the stresses experienced during its launch. "Chief Administrator Vincent Gordon stated that this was just the first in what was expected to be a long series of similar experiments as they slowly gathered better and better information in order to further our understanding of rocket technology and the very fringes of space. While US and Soviet rockets have also gathered data from these regions, several of the instruments carried in yesterday's flight were of improved or unique design in order to hopefully capture previously unrecorded phenomena. Scientists were also interested in discovering if the readings from above equatorial French Guiana showed any substantial differences to those recorded above Florida or the Soviet launch site, both of which are located much further north." Excerpt from Pathé News Tuesday 2nd October 1951 "Another rocket once again blasted skywards from Puck Aerospace's facility at Kourou in French Guiana today. The rocket easily exceeded the 80 km goal again, reaching a peak altitude of just over 109 km during its brief five and a half minute flight. It carried an instrument package similar to that on the prior 23rd July flight (and the failed 13th June attempt)." Excerpt from Pathé News Tuesday 20th November 1951 "Puck Aerospace today launched the first of their upgraded Zombie Arrow II rockets from their facilities in French Guiana. With an upgraded rocket motor and larger fuel tank, the new rocket was expected to reach even greater heights than the original design. And indeed, this did turn out to be the case, as the rocket set a new record altitude of 159.4 km (for Puck Aerospace, both US and Soviet rockets have previously gone higher). This first test flight of the new rocket carried only a minimal science package, but both it and the flight telemetry recording unit parachuted safely back to Earth and were recovered and delivered to waiting technicians for analysis. Founder and Chief Executive, Mr Peadar Kincaid gave a brief statement that he was delighted with the performance of the new rocket and that this should only be the first of several incremental improvements." Excerpt from Pathé News Monday 28th January 1952 "Puck Aerospace began its second year of operation today, with the launch of their sixth rocket. Another Zombie Arrow II rocket, this one was equipped with the now standard 75 kg science package, with the goal of getting readings from at least 130 km above the surface. Once more, the rocket performed flawlessly, lofting its payload to over 145.5 km before falling back to Earth once more. With only one failure out of their first six launches, Puck Aerospace are certainly demonstrating their technical capabilities." Excerpt from Pathé News Monday 28th April 1952 "In, what has quickly become routine, Puck Aerospace once again launched a scientific analysis rocket more than 142 km into space above French Guiana today." Excerpt from Pathé News Tuesday 29th April 1952 "Just one day after their most recent successful rocket launch, Puck Aerospace today unveiled the first of its newest family of heavy sounding rockets: the Yeti I. Fitted with a sophisticated automated camera system, the Bailey I, its goal was to take various high altitude images of the Earth from the edge of space and return the film safely to the ground. Alas, it was not meant to be, as the flight was aborted shortly before launch when telemetry discovered a problem with the Hawker Siddeley Dynamics supplied A-4 engine. The rocket will be defueled and returned to the assembly building for detailed analysis, but according to founder and chief executive Peadar Kincaid, engineers at both Puck Aerospace and Hawker Siddeley are confident that they will be able to quickly rectify the problems and prepare for another launch attempt in a little over a month's time." Excerpt from Pathé News Friday 13th June 1952 "Today marked the second attempt by Puck Aerospace to launch their new Yeti rocket carrying a Bailey camera package. Unlike their last attempt, this launch proceeded without any significant problems, the late arrival of one of the spectating officials not withstanding. Lifting off just before 11:46 am GMT (8:46am local time), the rocket performed perfectly, swiftly arcing off towards the east as it climbed towards its peak 185 km altitude. A few minutes later, small explosive bolts separated the camera and control systems from the main body of the rocket. After falling back into the atmosphere, parachutes deployed successfully once it dropped below 5000 m. A waiting boat recovered the returned camera from the ocean just over 410 km from its launch site. "Mr Kincaid, founder and chief executive of Puck Aerospace, congratulated everyone involved in today's launch for demonstrating another step forward in their ability to send even heavier and more capable scientific instruments higher and further then ever before achieved by a private aerospace company." ==== Gameplay information and screenshots:

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Excerpt from Pathé News Monday 23rd April 1951 "Puck Aerospace today announced the appointment of Mr Vincent Glasgow as their new head of administration. Mr Glasgow has a long and distinguished career in the aerospace industry, including heading up the rocketry development department for the Ministry of Defence during the latter part of World War II. More recently, he was director of development for Scottish Aviation at Prestwick in Ayrshire. Overseeing their work on manufacturing light airframes for the newer generations of post-war aircraft. Puck Aerospace stated in their announcement that they believed that Mr Glasgow's experience dealing with large technical staffs will allow more efficient use of their workforce and that his reputation within the aerospace industry may well be instrumental in the securing of more lucrative contracts. "Mr Glasgow stated he had first been approached by Mr Kincaid, the head of Puck Aerospace, about a month ago to see if he was interested in joining the company. Negotiations had went well, leading to him accepting the role on Friday. He further said that he was looking forward to the challenges his new post would bring and hoped his appointment would help secure a firm foundation in Puck Aerospace's bid to become a world leader in aerospace development. In other news, Puck Aerospace stated that construction work on the heavier launch facility capable of handling larger sounding rockets was continuing apace and that they expected to be ready to begin construction of their first rocket by the beginning of June. These larger rockets are expected to be able to take sizeable scientific instruments more than one hundred and fifty kilometres up and travel several hundred kilometres from their launch site, in order to study changes in the environment within the upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere and the near space regime. Engines for the new rocket have been secured following a licensing deal with Hawker Siddeley Dynamics for access to their research into confiscated engines from German wartime V-2 rockets. The rocket notorious for their use in the bombing of London and other allied cities. Puck Aerospace's use of similar rockets, we are assured, will be for purely peaceful purposes."

Excerpt from Pathé News 20th April 1951 "Puck Aerospace announced the successful launch of their first high altitude rocket. The launch took place just after twenty to eight this morning, local time (10:42 am GMT), when the 1030 kg rocket blasted away from the newly constructed PSR-01 launch facility. "The Tiny Tim booster that powered the Zombie Arrow rocket off the pad was licensed from the US Navy, one of several surplus boosters from the US WAC Corporal program. In contrast, the U-1250 rocket motor used for the second stage was purchased from the USSR, part of a technology transfer deal brokered personally by Puck Aerospace's founder Mr Peadar Kincaid, earlier this year. A solid demonstration of how technology from different parts of the world can be integrated to achieve outstanding results. "While the 117 km maximum altitude reached by the rocket is not quite as high as either the American or Soviet programs have achieved to date, it does represent a new record for a private, commercially operated aerospace organisation. The rocket's instrument package was successfully separated from the main body at the apex of its flight and parachuted gently back to Earth just ten minutes after it launched. "In his announcement, Mr Kincaid stated that this is just the first of several launches his company intends to make this year, and that they received a bounty of useful telemetry and scientific readings from the flight that will be put to good use to further improve and develop their rocket technology going forward. "Brief statements from the US and Soviet governments welcomed the Scottish company's entry into the space race, although the tone of both missives might be considered slightly condescending by certain readers. Highlighting as they did, the use of purchased technology rather than developing their own. "French President Vincent Auriol by contrast had nothing but praise for the achievement, stating in an interview with Le Monde newspaper that this was a vindication of the faith his government had shown in providing initial funding to Puck Aerospace's fledgling rocket program. He went on to state that he expected the future successes of the company to further demonstrate their ability and vision. "Puck Aerospace has already begun work on assembling their next rocket and a second launch is expected to be announced in the near future." =====

First, sorry but small error in my supplied code. "type = Expression" is case sensitive and needs to be changed. Other than that, I just tested it, and it seems to work as intended. I created a new career save with CC and this contract pack installed. Cheated myself a huge pile of cash and science with which to upgrade buildings and buy tech required, then designed an over-built test rocket to send Jeb to The Mun and Minmus. Checking back at Mission Control after each step, I confirmed that the contract did not become available until all 3 bodies had been orbited. As for how OrbitedBodies gets its values - it seems to read from the stock progress system. In a save file this is stored in the Scenario -> ProgressTracking node, which for my test save looked like: A few screenshots from Mission Control: Update: What the progress tracking node looked like after Jeb returned home from his mission: