MaxwellsDemon

Done some searching around but can't find anything on this... I'd like to assign "unset target" to a key in the keyboard setup, but it's not something that's available on the existing config screen. Is there a config change, lite mod or module manager tweak that would allow this? I'd like to skip the step of going to Map Mode and clicking and then returning to flight mode if possible. If not possible, it's something I've lived with so far. But if I had my druthers, I'd have a keyboard shortcut for it.

Looks interesting! Will have to give it a test flight!

Please forgive my ignorance-- I had always assumed the lattices were there because of hot staging. Is there another benefit to them?

There we go.

Ah, the repair mission. I can see how that might make a film... though the 'severely fictionalized' part concerns me. The autograph does seem to match. I'll see if I can scan it and show it...

Wait, what? What's that? (I recently finished the English translation of Lebedev's 'Diary of a Cosmonaut,' so I've been on a 'Salyut' kick.) (Interestingly, the copy I found appears to be autographed by Lebedev himself, though I'll need to find someone to confirm that-- I can just barely make out Serbian cyrillic cursive-- Russian cursive handwriting is beyond my abilities!)

There aren't enough "Like" buttons in the world for me to express my appreciation and approval of this statement! XD

Yeah... my thought was to try to use the thrust and burn time of some real-world rockets as a basis for creating some KSP designs, but it sounds like doing it that way will be more trouble than fun!

Oh, I can tell you right off, since it's popping up in the loading screen. Indicator Lights appears to be throwing one error, and the FAR motors portion of SXT is accounting for seven or so errors. I'm away from my system right now, but I can get the specific items when I'm back to it.

Got it--- trying to work the problem backward. Bad habit of mine!

I was reading up on some rockets the other day, and it occurred to me to wonder... someone surely has worked out the ratio of "real world" engine power vs. "kerbal world" engine power. I understand that the kerbal engines are significantly overpowered relative to their real-world counterparts... is there a mathematical relationship I can use to translate? For instance, the first stage engines of the Long March 2F are reported at 3,256 kN for a burn time of 291 seconds; would the kerbal equivalent be 3256x, where x is some conversion factor (for the sake of discussion let's say 0.25, so that would make Kerbal kN = 814)? (Am I even asking the right question?)

Oh yeah, that'll be the goal of the rendezvous mission

I'm getting some too, but I think they're likely because the individual mods need to be updated to the new Module Manager. I'm sure that will happen soon.

Getting to the point in my latest (1.3.1) campaign where it starts to get interesting... prepping asteroid rendezvous missions, circum-Munar flybys, and the first interplanetary probes are arriving at their destinations. Interestingly, Kerbin captured a C-class asteroid without my having to do anything, so it appears that we have a new moonlet. Trying to come up with an appropriately Kerbal name for it (Miniminmus has been rejected by the Kerbal Astronomical Union). Definitely will make the asteroid rendezvous a bit easier.

Aha. Would it be possible to do some pre-resizing for those of us that don't use TweakScale?

Maybe I'm dense, but I'm not quite understanding how to use these in the VAB. Do they go between the capsule and the heat shield? Or are they intended for modders rather than "end users"?

Thank you for your time!

Wonderful! Have some rep, and a donation! (Wonder what the current exchange rate between Euros and Funds is...)

Dev builds 760 and following appear to have corrected this issue.

I think it's fascinating that the NK-33 and NK-43 are still worthy of a serious look (the Antares AJ26 accident notwithstanding). Don't know if I have a "favorite" rocket engine per se, but those and the J-2 impress/interest me.

And made a successful landing on the Mun just now. As far as I can tell, everything is back in working order. Merci beaucoup!

I successfully made a targeted landing on Minmus last night using dev build #760 in 1.3.1. All worked as expected (i.e., worked just as well as with the release build in 1.3.0).

I've noticed that the 'Land Anywhere' still seems to work. Just seems to be the targeted landing system that's wonky. (Just on the off-chance that information is useful.)

I just have to say, that's a great-looking rocket!

Newly revised list: My personal library on the topic (thus far): Baker, David. Soyuz Owners' Workshop Manual: 1967 Onwards (All Models). Yeoville, Somerset, UK: Haynes Publishing, 2014. 176 pp. Borisenko, Ivan, and Alexander Romanov. (Helen Goun, trans.) Where All Roads into Space Begin: An Account of the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1982. 117 pp. Chertok, Boris Ye. (Siddiqi, Asif. ed.) Rockets and People. (4 vols.) Washington, D.C.: NASA, 2005-2011. Vol. I, Rockets and People. SP-2005-4110. 402 pp. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4110/vol1.pdf Vol. II, Rockets and People: Creating a Rocket Industry. SP-2006-4110. 669 pp. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4110/vol2.pdf Vol. III, Rockets and People: Hot Days of the Cold War. SP-2009-4110. 796 pp. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4110/vol3.pdf Vol. IV, Rockets and People: The Moon Race. SP-2011-4110. 663 pp. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4110/vol4.pdf Clark, Phillip. The Soviet Manned Space Programme: An Illustrated History of the Men, the Missions, and the Spacecraft. London: Salamander, 1988. 192 pp. Daniloff, Nicholas. The Kremlin and the Cosmos. New York: Knopf, 1972. 258 pp. Gerovitch, Slava. Voices of the Soviet Space Program: Cosmonauts, Soldiers, and Engineers Who Took the USSR into Space. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 305 pp. Glushko, Valentin (ed.) Soviet Cosmonautics: Questions and Answers. Moscow: Novosti Press, 1988. 141 pp. Godwin, Robert (ed.) Rocket and Space Corporation Energia: The Legacy of S.P. Korolev. Burlington, Ont.: Apogee Books, 2001. 128 pp. Gorkov, Vladislav, and Yu. Avdeev. An A-Z of Cosmonautics. Moscow: Mir Publishers, 1989. 192 pp. Hall, Rex, and David J. Shayler. The Rocket Men: Vostok and Voskhod, the First Soviet Manned Spaceflights. Chichester, UK: Praxis, 2001. 350 pp. Hall, Rex, and David J. Shayler. Soyuz: A Universal Spacecraft. Chichester, UK: Praxis, 2003. 460 pp. Hall, Rex, David J. Shayler and Bert Vis. Russia’s Cosmonauts: Inside the Yuri Gagarin Training Centre. Springer-Praxis, 2005. 386 pp. Harford, James J. Korolev: How One Man Masterminded the Soviet Drive to Beat America to the Moon. New York: Wiley, 1997. 432 pp. Harland, David M. The Story of Space Station Mir. Chichester, UK: Springer, 2005. 424 pp. Hart, Douglas M. The Encyclopedia of Soviet Spacecraft. New York, Exeter, 1987. 191 pp. Harvey, Brian. Race into Space: The Soviet Space Programme. Chichester, UK: Ellis Horwood, 1988. 381 pp. Harvey, Brian. Russia in Space: The Failed Frontier? Chichester, UK: Praxis, 2001. 330 pp. Harvey, Brian and Olga Zakutnyaya. Russian Space Probes: Scientific Discoveries and Future Missions. Springer-Praxis, 2011. 514 pp. Hendrickx, Bart, and Bert Vis. Energiya-Buran: The Soviet Space Shuttle. Chichester, UK: Praxis, 2007. 526 pp. Humble, Ronald D. The Soviet Space Programme. London: Routledge Press, 1988. 158 pp. Huntress, Wesley T., Jr. and Mikhail Ya. Marov. Soviet Robots in the Solar System: Mission Technologies and Discoveries. Chichester, UK: Springer, 2011. 453 pp. Ivanovich, Grujica S. Salyut, the First Space Station: Triumph and Tragedy. Chichester, UK: Springer, 2008, 426 pp. Johnson, Nicholas L. Handbook of Soviet Manned Space Flight. Revised edition. San Diego, Calif: Univelt, 1988. 461 pp. Johnson, Nicholas L. Soviet Military Strategy in Space. London: Jane’s Information Group, 1987. 320 pp. Johnson, Nicholas L. The Soviet Reach for the Moon: The L-1 and L-3 Manned Lunar Programs and the Story of the N-1 "Moon Rocket". [Washington, D.C.]: Cosmos Books, 1995. 52 pp. Lebedev, L. A. Sons of the Blue Planet. English translation. NASA TT F-728. Washington, D.C.: NASA, 1973. 327 pp. https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19740011518 Lebedev, Lev and Alexander Romanov. Rendezvous in Space: Soyuz-Apollo, An Account of the First Soviet - American Space Experiment 1975. [Moscow]: Progress Publishers, 1979. 208 pp. Lebedev, Valentin Vitalevich. (Luba Diangar, trans.) Diary of a Cosmonaut: 211 Days in Space. Texas: Phytoresource Research, 1988. 352 pp. McDonald, Sue. Mir Mission Chronicle: November 1994 - August 1996. TP-98-207890. [Washington, DC]: [National Aeronautics and Space Administration], 1998. 76 pp. [This is a continuation of Mir Hardware Heritage, RP-1357] https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/shuttle-mir/references/r-documents-mirmission.htm Matson, Wayne R. (ed.) Cosmonautics, A Colorful History. [Washington, D.C.]: Cosmos Books, 1994. 212 pp. Millard, Doug. Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age. Scala Arts, 2015. 256 pp. Miller, Jay (ed.) Soviet Space. Fort Worth, Tex: Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, 1991. 110 pp. Morgan, Clay. Shuttle-Mir: The United States and Russia Share History's Highest Stage. SP-2001-4225. [Washington, DC]: [National Aeronautics and Space Administration], 2001. 208 pp. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4225.pdf Newkirk, Dennis. Almanac of Soviet Manned Space Flight. Houston: Gulf Publishing, 1990. 320 pp. Oberg, James E. Red Star in Orbit. New York: Random House, 1981. 272 pp. Perminov, V.G. The Difficult Road to Mars: A Brief History of Mars Exploration in the Soviet Union. [Washington, DC]: [National Aeronautics and Space Administration], 1999. 78 pp. https://history.nasa.gov/monograph15a.pdf , https://history.nasa.gov/monograph15b.pdf Pivnyuk, Vladimir A. et. al. Space Station Handbook: The Cosmonaut Training Handbook. [Washington, D.C.]: Matson Press, 1992. 60 pp. Portree, David S. F. Mir Hardware Heritage. RP-1357. [Washington, DC]: [National Aeronautics and Space Administration], 1995. 205 pp. https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/shuttle-mir/references/r-documents-mirhh.htm Rhea, John (ed.) Roads to Space: An Oral History of the Soviet Space Program. McGraw-Hill, 1995. 513 pp. Riabchikov, Evgeny. Russians in Space: The Men, the Flights, and the Scientists Behind Them. English ed. New York: Doubleday, 1971. 300 pp. Semenov, Yuri, et. al. Cosmonautics 1990. Moscow: Mashinostroenie Press (distributed by Matson Press), 1991. 72 pp. Semenov, Yuri, et. al. Cosmonautics 1991. Moscow: Mashinostroenie Press (distributed by Matson Press), 1992. 68 pp. Siddiqi, Asif A. Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974. NASA SP-4408, 2000. Republished in two parts as Sputnik and the Soviet Space Challenge (512 pp.) and The Soviet Space Race with Apollo. (576 pp.) Gainesville, Fla: University Press of Florida, 2003. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4408pt1.pdf , http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4408pt2.pdf Zak, Anatoly. Russia in Space: The Past Explained, the Future Explored. Burlington, Ont.: Apogee Books, 2014. 316 pp. (See www.russianspaceweb.com ) Closely related/relevant: Baker, David. Rocket Owners’ Workshop Manual, 1942 Onwards (All Models). Yeoville, Somerset, UK: Haynes Publishing, 2015. 192 pp. Ezell, Edward Clinton, and Linda Neuman Ezell. The Partnership: A History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. SP-4209. [Washington, DC]: [National Aeronautics and Space Administration], 1979. 560 pp. http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4209.pdf Furniss, Tim. The History of Space Vehicles. San Diego, CA: Thunder Bay Press, 2001. 256 pp. Furniss, Tim and David J. Shayler. Praxis Manned Spaceflight Log 1961-2006. Chichester, UK: Praxis, 2007. 829 pp. Launius, Roger D., and Andrew K. Johnston. Smithsonian Atlas of Space Exploration. Piermont, N.H.: Bunker Hill, 2009. 240 pp. Sharman, Helen and Christopher Priest. Seize the Moment. London: Gollancz, 1993. 192 pp. Other books on the topic I've decided against purchasing (some are outdated, some don't interest me, some are of questionable value, and some I might get at some future date; but I wanted to list them for the sake of completeness. I also ignore many of the books about the US-Soviet "Space Race" because most of the English-language ones are Americanocentric and I'm trying to get more of the Russian side of things.) Abramov, Isaac, and A. Ingemar Skoog. Russian Spacesuits. Chichester, UK: Springer, 2003. 366 pp. Andrews, James T., and Asif A. Siddiqi. Into the Cosmos: Space Exploration and Soviet Culture. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011. 330 pp. Andrews, James T. Red Cosmos: K.E. Tsiolkovskii, Grandfather of Soviet Rocketry. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2009. 147 pp. Bartos, Adam, and Svetlana Boym. Kosmos: A Portrait of the Russian Space Age. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001. 176 pp. Brzezinski, Matthew. Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries That Ignited the Space Age. Waterville, Me: Thorndike Press, 2007. Burgess, Colin, and Bert Vis. Interkosmos. Springer, 2016. 321 pp. Burgess, Colin, and Rex Hall. The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives, Legacy, and Historical Impact. Berlin: New York, 2009. 396 pp. Burrough, Bryan. Dragonfly: NASA and the Crisis Aboard Mir. New York: HarperCollins, 1998. 544 pp. Caidin, Martin. Red Star in Space. [New York]: Crowell-Collier Press, 1963. 280 pp. Dickson, Paul. Sputnik: The Shock of the Century. New York: Walker & Company, 2011. 310 pp. Doran, Jamie, and Piers Bizony. Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin. London: Bloomsbury, 2011. 248 pp. Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich. Road to the Stars. Honolulu, Hawaii: University Press of the Pacific, 2002. 196 pp. Gerovitch, Slava. Soviet Space Mythologies: Public Images, Private Memories, and the Making of a Cultural Identity. 2015. 232 pp. Glushko, Alexander. Design for Space: Soviet and Russian Mission Patches. 2016. 174 pp. Godwin, Robert. Russian Spacecraft. Burlington, Ont: Apogee Books, 2006. 66 pp. Gruzdeva, Maria. Direction--Space! Dewi Lewis, 2011. 96 pp. Gurney, Gene, and Clare Gurney. Cosmonauts in Orbit: The Story of the Soviet Manned Space Program. New York: Franklin Watts, 1973. 192 pp. Hall, Rex. The History of Mir, 1986-2000. British Interplanetary Society, 2000. 112 pp. Harvey, Brian. The New Russian Space Programme: From Competition to Collaboration. Chichester: Wiley, 1996. 408 pp. Harvey, Brian. Russian Planetary Exploration: History, Development, Legacy, Prospects. Chichester: Springer/Praxis, 2007. 351 pp. Harvey, Brian. Soviet and Russian Lunar Exploration. Chichester, UK: Springer, 2007. 317 pp. Hooper, Gordon R. The Soviet Cosmonaut Team: A Comprehensive Guide to the Men and Women of the Soviet Manned Space Programme. Lowestoft, Suffolk, England: GRH Publications, 1990. (2 vols.) Jenks, Andrew L. The Cosmonaut Who Couldn't Stop Smiling: The Life and Legend of Yuri Gagarin. DeKalb, IL: NIU Press, 2014. 315 pp. Johnson, Matthew, Nick Stevens, and Jack Haggerty. N-1 for the Moon and Mars: A Reference Guide to the Soviet Superbooster. Livermore, CA: ARA Press, 2013. 196 pp. Johnson, Nicholas L. Handbook of Soviet Lunar and Planetary Exploration. San Diego, Calif: Univelt, 1979. 262 pp. Karash, Yuri Y. The Superpower Odyssey: A Russian Perspective on Space Cooperation. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1999. Kohonen, Iina, Albion M. Butters, and Tiina Hyytiäinen. Picturing the Cosmos: A Visual History of Early Soviet Space Endeavor. 2017. 205 pp. Lardier, Christian, and Stefan Barensky. The Soyuz Launch Vehicle: The Two Lives of an Engineering Triumph. New York: Springer, 2013. 487 pp. Launius, Roger D., John M. Logsdon, and Robert W. Smith. Reconsidering Sputnik: Forty Years Since the Soviet Satellite. London [u.a.]: Routledge, 2002. 442 pp. Manber, Jeffrey. Selling Peace: Inside the Soviet Conspiracy that Transformed the U.S. Space Program. Apogee Books, 2010. 332 pp. Maurer, Eva. Soviet Space Culture: Cosmic Enthusiasm in Socialist Societies. Soviet Space Culture. Basingstoke [u.a.]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 323 pp. Meuser, Philipp. Galina Balashova: Architect of the Soviet Space Programme. 2015. 159 pp. Oberg, James. Star-Crossed Orbits: Inside the U.S.-Russian Space Alliance. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002. 352 pp. Phelan, Dominic. Cold War Space Sleuths The Untold Secrets of the Soviet Space Program. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2013. 300 pp. Phelan, Dominic. Soviet Space Secrets: Hidden Stories from the Space Race. CreateSpace, 2016. 84 pp. Popescu, Julian. Russian Space Exploration: The First 21 Years. Henley-on-Thames, Eng: Gothard House Publications, 1979. 150 pp. Shelton, William Roy. Soviet Space Exploration: The First Decade. London: Barker, 1969. 341 pp. Siddiqi, Asif A. The Red Rockets' Glare: Spaceflight and the Soviet Imagination, 1857-1957. 2014. Smolders, Peter L. Soviets in Space. New York: Taplinger Pub. Co, 1974. 286 pp. Suvorov, Vladimir, and Alexander Sabelnikov. The First Manned Spaceflight: Russia's Quest for Space. Commack, NY.: Nova Science Publishers, 1997. 155 pp. Titov, G. S., and Robert Daglish. 700,000 Kilometres Through Space: Notes by Soviet Cosmonaut No. 2. Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 196-. 134 pp. Vladimirov, Leonid. The Russian Space Bluff: The Inside Story of the Soviet Drive to the Moon. New York: Dial Press, 1973. 190 pp.