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Looking at the wiki, it seems like a good idea to increase rocket performance. However, we have to also consider that the intake has to be designed and integrated with the rest of the rocket. That might be difficult, especially at high altitudes and velocities. A delta-v check would be good, actually on both the SS-540-4 and the lambda. The Lambda carried a 26 kg payload. I think, at most we would be consider a 3 kg payload. Not much of a difference, but still a difference. Probably reduces the Delta-v by a bit. Also, what is the energy density of the lambda launch vehicle? Why should also try to focus on increasing that to the best of our abilities.

Word of coder says it is using the same code throughout.

Also this, courtesy of @KAL 9000 (again, its another spoiler)

Thanks for posting this. I'll repost here the one written originally in "Saga of Emiko Station" RGTGNNRT NNNGGRGNGT LGRRLLNN NGGRTNGN RRTTRG LNGTGTGNGRNNRT?

OMG no! What a tragedy! Try convincing him more?

Neat. I would have to suggest that stuffing a bunch of taco shells with lettuce is probably close enough to a taco. Also - what laptop is that?

Dissection (if you ask me) is flarping awesome.Yes, it sucks that an animal dies and now had been soaked in many chemicals for your curriculum. However, as someone who has lived through this part of a biology class, I can tell you some stuff you benefit it greatly be seeing it in person. Like for instance, they can tell in a manual "this part of the whatever looks like this and is identified by some structure or something" But most of the stuff just looks like one thing. Like a brain for instance. Its all just white kinda fleshy stuff. That's something not conveyed by a 3d model or diagram, since it's all nicely divided up into menus or whatever. I also personally find it fun to explore into something you never get to see normally. Like, you can't often see how the small intestine is wound up inside of the stomach, or how the diaphragm separates the lung and the heart in a pig, or how the lung, while described as an air filled sac, felt and acted more like one fleshy-thing in a fetal pig. The way I looked at it is that the animal is dead. Dead is dead. Might as well make the best of it, you can't really have much sympathy. I do have to say - I don't think it's a fully necessary part for education. You will probably be fine if you don't see a baby pig heart or cut open an animal. But, as mentioned above, is part of the curriculum.I also respect that you don't like it. That's fine, but this was my 2 cents. I might just be cold and heartless. Out of curiosity - what are you dissecting and how are you at school?

WIP mission patch for an almost grand tour.

Ahhh... I should be more careful. This is the second time I've accidentally misread the rules.

Getting closer! Hmmm. I should really start a cryptography thread in the lounge, to stop this one derailing.

Cool challenge. Never really thought of how to pick stuff up. There was a rescue mission for another challenge that I guess counts. I had a shuttle (weighing about 6 tons, estimated) stranded in orbit and sent up another one to recover it inside of a cargo bay. Album Link Debris: Weighs a little less since I used fuel.

Ok, redid this one in a lawn chair. I hope everything is bright enough. Speed of 2306 m/s, reached a height of 423km - 1 kerbal 250+100+5+25 = 400 Album Edit: Apparently I can't read. Does not stay within atmosphere.

Started work on a boat with my father. Built 3 ribs so far, out of 8. Hoping to make a giethoorn punter, for any dutchies who know the design out there (may have gotten the name wrong, sorry if I did.) Something like this (not mine)

Yeah.... Is that not what I said? Oops. Recovering the sustainer would be nice - if we make it in multiple stages, (let's say for sake of arguement, 3 or 4 stages, plus the kick) we might be able to recover the first one, maybe the second. Kinda depends on what velocities and altitudes are reached by each stage, which depends on A) the SRB used and B) the sustainer core. Both of those affect the possiblility for recovery. We could probably use a less powerful SRB as the kick stage. That helps with the TWR problem. Also - any thoughts on spin stabilization and/or drag separation?

I believe the mod Collide-o-scope does this. It has an option where you can show flight markers.

Fair point.

I think so? You could just rotate the wing. I would like smaller wing panels though. And smaller elevons.

double post. Ignore me.

HTP is just concentrated hydrogen peroxide. However, its kinda nasty. Also, there are commercial suppliers of it, but there aren't any open sources I know of or can think of. Yes. A simple beeping satellite would be good enough. Maybe a piece of paper with all our names on it. I'm not sure about single stick, but looking at fairly recent models of the black brant, a popular type of sounding rocket, their TWR seems to about 10. I'm not kidding. The nike booster, also used in sounding rockets, has a TWR of 44. It was originally carrying a 14-ton payload, so most of it was dedicated to that. of So maybe a 5-15 TWR would be good for a single-stick. I'm not really sure, but we have to keep in mind the stick also has to carry itself and others up. Also - If we do a simple on/off system, I feel we may come onto the problem of Thrust vectors. Say we have a 4 core sustainer, with cores ABCD [A]B [C][D] If we go to half thrust, that works well. AD or BC can be shut off, and the thrust vector stay in roughly the same place. However, if we want to do 3/4 or 1/4 thrust that doen't work with out changing the average thrust vector. We could just do 3 discrete steps - off, 1/2, and full though. It would have to be a design consideration. Another benefit of a fully adjustable system is thrust vectoring from the engines, by changing the different relative thrust levels. Quoting @TheEpicSquared - " I think that before going any further, we need to decide on the staging. After all, parallel and Arian stages rocket do work differently. Will we use parallel or serial staging? Both? If serial, 2 or 3 stage design? Have both parallel and serial, like Falcon Heavy? IMO we need to get that sorted before we go any further. " As a stage system, what do you feel for using like 8 strap-on solid rocket motors (those white lightnings could work well), an n-core sustainer (core count to be determined,serial staging as necessary), and another single white-lightning as a kicker stage for the final orbit?

I think explosive bolts are actually easier than the mechanical system you propose. An explosive bolt is one part, your system consists of more parts, each of which could fail and go horribly wrong. Sure, an explosive bolt has other complications, but with your system, you have to trust a much weaker attachment system (friction or something similar) as opposed to a nut and a bolt, which are quite strong. Also - Has NOX been considered as an oxidizer? I'm not sure of its advantages/disadvantages, but it is another option, and probably less nasty than LOX. The downside is that we would still need an RCS system, probably from HTP monoprop system.

That's quite an elegant solution. The problems I immediately see here are A) How consistent will the pressure feeding be? For instance, we don't want one side accidentally burning more than the other, causing funny stuff to happen inside the combustion chamber B) What if it is throttled too low, that the chamber pressure from ignition is not high enough to keep the napalm from flowing in uncontrollably? Also - this still has to be controlled, so I would guess there has to be some form of cable tunnel or something similar to control the valves necessary for control, right?

Nice! Have to agree - it looks a bit long now.Also, it feels like the nose area before the cockpit should be longer.

Only a nuke? Why not go wayyy overkill and make it 17?

Impressive! The LM is probably one of the nicest ones I've seen in a while. As a question - Why not use the 1.25 to 2.5m adapter from the fuel tanks section for the bottom engine fairing? I've tried that, and the lineis fairly straight. Also, a cleaner texture (IMO)

Nice chapter! Would have liked to see a little more of the other jet and maybe a bit more dogfighting. Personal preferences. Not necessarily suggestions.