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There are some rather good reasons for why rockets typically lack wings. -
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BDB does something a little like this. It uses a dedicated interstage fairing part for the Saturn V (and its various unusual siblings). It's a workaround, of course, but it does work. Actually, now that I think of it, putting the engine shroud on a separate part might not be a terrible approach. I imagine some kind of low-profile engine mount (even just a simple ring with minimal greebling) could serve as an extra part for a stageable shroud while minimizing necessary modification to the current engine model. I've not played around with the new Soyuz yet, so this is coming from a place of unfamiliarity with the geometry of the new engine, but it does seem like a potentially viable way to implement this - if there is any interest in implementing it at all, that is.
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Does anyone know of a source for the duration of a typical Soyuz hotstaging procedure? I just tried to track down this information to provide it as a reference for how long the in-game Soyuz should be able to survive hotstaging, but I'm struggling to find a source with sufficient detail (possibly not helped by the fact that I don't speak Russian yet so I can't easily look for Russian-language sources or evaluate their quality or validity).
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How does the Realism Overhaul R-7 do it?
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Finally, proper Soyuz decouplers...
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Glad to see this. The original mods have certainly aged, it'll be good to have the european rockets updated to the current standard of quality for mods.
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Probably wise not to.
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Tantares doesn't have the correct engine (yet), so the build guide uses stock parts as a substitution where necessary. I would suspect that it's chosen based on suitable performance characteristics, but that's really just a guess.
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I would suspect that Rogallo wing enthusiasts would not settle for anything less than a proper control surface.
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Oh, that is fascinating. I'm sure there are dozens of potentially interesting uses for this.
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I see, thank you for clarifying. I assumed there may be some relation to capsule aerodynamics due to the way some of the CPM modules are described, and the fact that crew capsules have particularly unique geometry compared to many other parts.
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I take it Community Part Modules is for making certain spacecraft (in particular, crew capsules) fly more realistically?
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Will the SAF expansion include Vostok and Voskhod fairings? Those need a dedicated part much more than most fairings do in order to replicate them properly (for reasons that are obvious if you know what they look like).
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Roll jet data sounds ideal. The way the N1 was controlled is highly unique and is one of the things that makes it stand out so much.
