Servo
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@Servo I happened across your WIP von Braun-inspired Duna mission the other day, and I've been absolutely stumped as to how you did the nuclear shuttles. Is it two liquid fuel fuselages offset into one another just so to avoid Z-fighting, more than two, or something else entirely?
I also seem to recall that you mentioned difficulties docking... I've found that for a multi-port kind of thing, it's best to have the two ports around the center of mass with about a port-sized gap between them, in order to avoid any problems with them sticking. The farther out they are from one another, the harder it gets for the magnets to twist the thing into the right orientation.
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Neat! I'll have to consider it as a technique for future craft. Also, that led to the discovery that LF-only tanks are more mass efficient than regular tanks with the LO drained out of them - independent delta-v for my stage, with the Mk3 LF tanks, is about 20% higher for about 20% less mass (and two fewer NERVs). Not something I knew before, probably old hat to everyone else.
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