Rocketology

Yes, his Calm Nebula works really well with GPP. It just fits! :-)

@Galileo @Poodmund @JadeOfMaar @OhioBob @TheRagingIrishman Team Galileo, I am not sure how you all keep improving on this epic mod, but you do! And I thank you for it, sincerely! This...This. Is. Planet. Porn! Baby! Yeah! (And this is stretched to 10.625X scale!) And I had to do this again :-P

@PLAD Using just RO, I am not certain it is possible with chemical rockets considering how small the payload to fuel margin is. Maybe from a point of high elevation and a very light weight probe it could be done, maybe? You would need ~13,500m/s velocity to achieve orbit, (too late for math so just an educated guess) that would be in the ball park of 17,000m/s of dV required from launch. With a TWR to push against 1.8G's, which would rule out high efficiency/ low thrust, light weight engines for the most part. It would have to be a multi-vessel journey and the hard part would be getting the relaunch stage successfully through re-entry, which isn't that easy as not much depth to the atmosphere before going dense, maybe requiring a retro burn during entry. I have entered and landed safely on Tellumo in testing, but haven't attempted getting back into orbit from there, yet. I think of Tellumo as more a "Hotel California" planet for Gaelean (Kerbal) retirement. If you give it a shot, be sure to let everyone here know how it goes! Good Luck! (you are going to need it!) :-P

More Screenshots inbound from The Real Scale Galean Space Program! (10.625X/ Earth scale.) All streamed Live at https://www.twitch.tv/rocketpcgaming Launch for first landing on Iota! First probe landing on Iota! First Ceti Flyby. Launch for first orbiter probe of moon Ceti. Just a beautiful sight! Real Scale launches are just so epic!

As an example:

@Poodmund is working on something awesome! It's almost there!

Not today, need to get some stuff done around the house and do some stream admin...like apply for twitch partnership (not likely to happen...but never hurts to try) and design some bttv emotes.

Here are some more 10.6X scale images, queue epic music for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aItrMzaMxe0&t=11679s First Jet First Polar Orbit Polar Beauty First Manned Launch (Second Stage Burn) First Manned Orbit First Orbital Space Walk Galileo Gaelan looking down at his world in awe... See it unfold live! https://www.twitch.tv/rocketpcgaming

Exactly! The Mushroom tipped "Eh" SSTO....lol

I will will be going over the install process again this morning for anyone having issues and I will post the stream highlight here later. https://www.twitch.tv/rocketpcgaming Install instructions with video demo can be found in this highlight here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/167018110

I had this very thing as well, they are not only not working, they do not physically exist. I haven't checked the KK thread though to see if there is a fix.

The Gaelean Space Program begins... First Flight... First crash landing (bloody awful landing gear!!!!).... First orbital launch.... The Money Shot! The beauty of first orbit....

Just a side not at this point; but all you need to do in Steam is to right click KSP, go to properties, betas, and roll back to whatever version you want back to 1.05. I just want to give a huge thank you to everyone that helped support @Galileo in getting his new hawtness GFX card! Seriously, you all are awesome!

GPP HYPE!!! I will be going over the install in this morning's stream! https://www.twitch.tv/rocketpcgaming Thank you Team @Galileo @OhioBob @JadeOfMaar @Poodmund @TheRagingIrishman Am I missing anyone?

Awesome! Will try to stream tonight, depends on when/ if it cools down enough!

So I am thinking someone should make a companion mod that replaces Jeb, Bob, Bill, and Val with Galileo, OhioBob, Poodmund, and JadeofMaar and "Kerbal" with "Gaelian". :-P

That is most likely the issue; you have an old version of Module Manager, you need version 2.7.6 or newer. This version is packed into the GPP download. Give that a shot. EDIT: You can also go up a few lines and see where i posted my stream highlight of the install process ;-)

For anyone having trouble with the install, I covered the full installation process in my stream last night and the install highlight can be found here! https://www.twitch.tv/videos/165360719 Special thank you to Team Galileo for stopping in last night and helping answer questions regarding this epic mod! @JadeOfMaar @TheRagingIrishman @OhioBob And the Big G himself @Galileo

Hey Everyone! Galileo (and Team Galileo) has given us so much with this mod and many others, so I will be streaming GPP all week to help raise funds to give back and help replace Big G's GFX card so he may continue his fine work! So please drop by, say hello, and consider donating to help Galileo out! Starting tonight at 6PM PST (0100UTC)! https://www.twitch.tv/rocketpcgaming Donate directly: https://www.paypal.me/tavishberlin I will be covering installation of GPP in KSP 1.2.2 and giving a tour of the planets & moons to start! So if you are curious about GPP, please stop in, take a look, and ask any questions you may have! Usually 1 or more members of Team Galileo are in channel to also answer any questions! Thank you everyone!

@Shadowmage Seriously, epic mod! The tweakable parts design is ingenious, I think Squad would be wise to take notice! As many mods as I use regularly, I am surprised I have not run across this gem before now. @Akira_R Thank you for the .cfg for SMURFF! All I needed to do was lower the thrust multiplier a bit and it and it nails realish values for my 10.6X GPP career.

I believe you are missing this: https://mega.nz/#!vUowhKgB!PAIeK8M1KlBOXhcBNglxGTq6MzSiqFxF27fAXYOD8_w DL and overwrite in Gamedata/Kopernicus/Plugins Link and detailed instructions is the main GPP readme :-P Have to ask, are you launching in 64bit? Also, Kopernicus is version locked to KSP, so you want the latest version as the earlier ones will not work.

Lots of awesome shuttles in here! Well done! Anyone that watches my stream will know I prefer SSTO's, but I made a shuttle just for this! (It's even stock:-P) It'll put 6 Kerbals in a 150km orbit and has ~3500m/s dV once there to go quite a ways and return.

Jade Science Station is now operational!

@Tuko Seconded, installing more than 1 LS system will mess everything up since each is installing new resources into the game. And Kerbalism isn't just a LS mod, it's an overhaul, so if you remove it for USI LS, there is a good chance it will break your save as well.

From what I know of SCRAMjets, the limits you are hitting are right inline with IRL limitations, even facing the same brick wall; drag and heat. If materials are able to withstand the heat, the design optimized for drag and riding the perfect pressure curve, the theoretical limit of a SCRAmjet is about mach 15 (~4400m/s) at an altitude of 75km. There simply isn't enough oxygen and air pressure above that altitude for combustion, regardless of speed. Thus far, the record is mach 9.6 (3,268m/s) at 29km altitude set by the X-41. As for real scale SSTO options, rockets based on methalox if using Real Fuels is a viable option.