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Static fire yesterday. They're probably going to try another static fire within the next few days, maybe a launch sometime after they're done with those.

Nope. Just mods.

Perhaps just an occasional puff of terribly smelly gas.

I think it's fine. They probably just want to see that the engine lights up.

That's literally something you can edit in a text file.

Yeah I use SLS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_laser_sintering

It's a mystery! The Mystery Goo. How do I fix my bean engine's engine bean?

Since when did "obsolete" have anything to do with "fun to watch soaring into the sky"?

If SN9 is intact after the 12.5 km flight, they should do a 100 km flight with it.

It's all the pretty visuals they've got, have you seen those high-res pictures from orbit? If they ditched the fancy clouds and scattering they could launch much more complex ships.

Fewer welds means fewer potential points of failure...and fewer parts!

Great work! That's an awesome looking meter!

Uneasy Peaks The ridge Lander 2 landed on was characterized by the same greenish spikes seen by the probe. It appeared that the entire surface was covered in them in a pretty much uniform distribution. The soil was crunchy and loose, and you had to be careful not to walk right over the edge of the cliff because the gravity was so low. The Kerbals tried planting a flag at the top of the mountain, but it fell down. It probably slid all the way to the bottom. All the while, those spikes gave a sense of uneasiness. As if something was watching them, with eyes hidden just well enough to avoid detection. Climbing up to the top of the highest spike, Megvey could see Jool, Laythe, and Tylo, the stars, the Sun, and a great deal of curvature from Pol. She felt like she was practically still flying in space. Spikes as far as the eye could see.

I'd like to have some larger deployable heat shields for aerobraking extremely large vessels.

Wonderful!

It looks like he just landed a plane and the wings sheared off in the process, but he has the absolutely Kerbal look on his face of "The test was a complete success!"

Uneasy Orbit Again, it only took a few maneuvers to bring the Station into orbit around Pol. As they were approaching the moon, each of the Kerbals got a chance to look at it out their windows. And each one had an unusual feeling at first sight. Thus far, every Kerbal who had visited another world had felt an overwhelming sense of peace and tranquility, as if even though they were far away from their home planet, they were welcome and at-home on the alien world. Not here. Here they felt that they were looking at something almost hostile or malevolent, and it gave a sense of aversion similar to the aversion one might have for poking at a bug or some strange deep-sea creature. The familiarity of Jool and Laythe were tiny and distant in the sky. Bill Kerman suddenly got the sense that something was wrong with the propulsion module, and hurriedly began checking systems until fellow engineer Mila convinced him to calm down. The strange feeling quickly faded, and the Kerbals shrugged and went about preparing for orbital insertion around the third moon of Jool. The maneuver went without a hitch. "I guess there was no danger at all," Bill said. Still, though, it seemed like there was something different about this moon, something not right with it. But the Kerbals ignored this feeling because they were explorers, because it was silly to think that a moon could be evil or malevolent towards them, even if there was natural danger there. And they pressed on, packing Lander 2 with supplies, scientists, and a pilot cocky enough to land them at the very tip of the spikiest mountain in their path.

Clicks in one year, clicks in another

We're also used to orange rockets that are assembled **very** slowly.

Not planetships, until now.

Scale of the supports is slightly exaggerated. There could be three or four of them if needed, which would translate and lower the rocket onto the launch clamps after the landing.

Today I made a graph of me watering a plant. I'm learning how to store data to an SD card from an Arduino.

I'm thinking something like this would be most structurally stable. I don't think I've ever seen a piston that big, so you might have it actually move with cables, but you can still provide the normal force against the ground like this.