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I can't answer your question directly, but there are two notes of interest. Firstly, you've forgotten the more funny situation of the entire satellite being stolen and then the rocket intentionally crashed. This falls under the old criminal offence of barratry. And the sources that mention it, such as Atomic Rockets, claim that it may have already happened. Another is, dunno about explosives, but someone managed to strap a 280 mN gravity torsion field inertialess drive (a glorified https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_drive ) to the Russian scientific microsattelite Yubileyni under the guise of a trimming weight. The launch provider (Roscosmos) pretty much overlooked it. Which means you should probably be on a terror watchlist for having overly brilliant ideas.

It's on CKAN, marked for 1.0.5, with configs for 0.25 (!).

Yes, but it is, as the OP complained, disproportionately less than what one would expect from EU. At least they aren't hung up on Muslim outreach. Yet.

Actually, it's even worse than NASA because it's a "common cauldron" situation of multiple donors having fairly tenuous control of where their "hard-earned" money goes; it's a general EU problem, and I hear some dank island is trying to quit it because of that. It's the same for many other international organizations.

Well, not at the same time, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikhter_R-23 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TP-82 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_laser_pistol

Because you've put my son on the same billboard as inflatable Batman.

Well, the Soviets weren't scared about 'Mericans stealing their sats. They were afraid that an entire Almaz spy station could be stolen. Which is why the Almaz stations had 23 mm cannons and crews with laser pistols and rifle-shotgun-machetes.

I suspect that it's more that the bulk of society is just plain ignoring spaceflight at all.

Oh, the Soviet Union did have military space stations masquerading as three of the Saluyts. And then there are the numerous secret space missions: But Intercosmos didn't involve Soviet African allies. Vietnam, Syria, Afghanistan, East Germany, but no Africans. In case someone needed convincing this is fake.

Oh, they tried. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail-sitter

Yes, my son?

I guess you need to use the arithmetic average weighted by fuel consumption.

Yeah, but he'd done a bang-up job of detuning the stage. Also, please ignore me accidentally messing up the Pilot and Science flight qualification ribbons. Edit: oh, finally, the first page is over!

There are two-three Asteroid Impact Calculators on the Web, complete with detonation altitude estimate (Chelyabinsk-style), crater size estimates, and change in length of Earth day, go crazy.

Polybutadiene Acrylonitrile? Or Philippine Ban Asbestos Network? There is. Even when launching craft with regular RTGs, NASA-JPL has civvies going nuts at them. IT'S NUCULAR!!!1!!1

Obviously.

Chapter 10: A Divine Tragedy A Hermes core stack with a bulky payload fairing blasted off a few weeks later. The ascent into low orbit occurred normally, with the aeroshell splitting open to reveal a bulky, cylindrical vehicle with oversized solar panels and radiators. Upon arrival into a 300 km orbit, Athens station jettisoned the propulsion stage, and went into sleep mode. Jeb wasn't in Mission Control for that one. He was screwing around with KRASH, flying a ship through the Harvester gap of Sarnus's rings while in sight of Slate and Eeloo. Alone, this orbital laboratory was worthless; it needed the Hermes ship, with three Kerbals, miscellaneous scientific equipment and a hundred days’ worth of supplies. So, the following day, they were sending up one. And Yaroslav Kermanov was getting the scoop of astronomical proportions, escorted by new-fangled engineer and pilot as support personnel. “Athens expedition 1, flight controllers, go or no-go! Booster?” Gene called out. “Go,” Bill answered. “FIDO?” “FIDO, go.” “Guidance?” “Go.” “Surgeon?” “Go.” “EECOM?” “Go, Flight.” “INCO?” “Go.” “SGC?” “We’re go, Flight,” Linus responded, having replaced the Sarnus-era Network controller with his constellation of commsats. “CAPCOM?” “Go!” Jeb responded. “Range safety?” “Go.” “Pad leader, Hermes is go for launch, execute when ready.” The Mainsail fired as expected, the rocket cleared the tower and began pitching downrange as normal. Bill was watching the telemetry intently; when boosting Athens, the recalibrated dampeners did their job. However, the booster and the payload could possibly interact in fairly surprizing ways. The rocket thundered past the 10 km mark, all telemetry nominal. The acceleration was building up, as was dynamic pressure. Then, the pressure data on the second-stage hydrogen tank flat-lined. A heartbeat later, the bulk of data streams cut off. Then, the entire feed from the flight computer – embedded in the second stage – died. “Flight, FIDO, I’ve got discreting sources on radar.” “EDS trigger!” INCO barked. “Range, please confirm visual,” Gene called out calmly. “CAPCOM, Hermes, please respond!” Jeb echoed. “Flight, Range confirms total vehicle loss.” “Walt, lock the doors!” “Control, Hermes,” Yaroslav’s voice came through, “Boost cover separated, we’re tumbling, vertical speed still positive.” “SAR go!” Jeb promptly barked, “FIDO, why are you under the table? Get a slide rule and give us a projected LZ!” Bill stood silent in the ensuing chaos. “Well,” he mouthed, “This’s just downright embarrassing.”

Guys, sorry for the pause, I'm trying to not completely jeopardize my finals. Also, me and Bill have been doing some work in Acquisitions. Also also, yes, I'm trying to make the forum end the page.

Done. I was unaware that this pack has been significantly expanded compared to its original form. The fins appear to be right on the money in size and functionality. I was kinda hoping for a staging-triggered deployment, but I understand that it's not easily implemented outside stock modules; I'll make do with SmartParts.

Although, realistically, they'd tend towards dwarfism. Behold this cutie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magyarosaurus

Nope, just tested them. Those are just a modded fin, their "deployment" (at least in the fan-patched version) is similar to other fins - they all just turn in one direction. Whereas I'm talking about this: Somebody here expressed concerns over OPness. These belong pretty high up the tech tree. They were pretty innovative to Sergei Korolev back in the day.

Why would it be controversial? It's brutally honest, anyone willing to look it up would hardly be surprised. It has also been photoshopped by the SCANSAT team, so we have it in-game.

A hybrid between several generic real and fictional space program and Starfleet logos that I slapped together in Powerpoint.

I've got a whole bucket of shots here: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=C21E6BF4E2665269!9598&authkey=!AMHpoBIvjorMBWk&ithint=folder%2cjpg

Guys, I think we've forgotten one thing: SpaceX is still doing much better than MarsOne! http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=701083119&tscn=1465813601