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Hello everyone Can anyone tell me if its possible to change names of planets as somewhere down the line of me installing RSS, Earth has gone back to being called kerbin and i know its petty but it annoys me to no end. Thanks!

Update 2 Government Meeting,Woomera, Australia Good Afternoon Everyone I would like to welcome everyone to the new UKSA space center here in Woomera. After the Sky Chaser failure lead to our Omerk test facility to become unuseable, we needed a new facility and after many locations being put forward the decision has been made between the UKSA and the Australian government. The Launch development and space tech teams have been hard at work the last few months in making our december deadline for the launch of WCSAT using the British launch system Longbow 1. The following images is the product of that hard work: The Longbow 1 is a Light Launch Vehicle which is two stages to orbit with a payload insertion final stage to push the payload into it desired orbit. The current set up can only lift 120KG into LEO however the Longbow 1 launching the BosSatCom next will be utilizing 3 corsair small strap on boosters bring the payload to LEO up to 1.2 Tons. (I don't know why the launch tower is so wonky, fixed itself after i restarted) The following image shows the Longbow Testbed rocket at 68km with 25 seconds left on the first stage which burn LOX and kerosene using the russian designed RD-108. The Longbow second stage (not pictured) uses the american developed AJ10 which burns nitrogen tetroxide and aerozine to provide that final push into LEO. Before separation the four radially mounted separation motors burn HTPB to provide ullage. And finally the payload insertion stage. This final stage pushes the payload into it desired orbit using the british developed Henley Vacuum engine which again burns nitrogen trioxide after smaller four smaller separation motors have fired. In a week's time we hope to launch the BosSatCom (BSC), a small communications satellite which has been made by Boston University in order to test the final Longbow 1 design utilizing 3 SRB's. Boston University coming to us to launch their satellite instead of asking a established provider greatly surprised us and after hearing their reasons we have decided to enter the Longbow 1 as a commercial platform. The agencies rising expenditure is the main reason for this decision as the problems with the skychaser program and the destruction of Omerk test facility has left us in a deficit, thus making Longbow 1 available as a commercial launch vehicle seems like the only way to raise funds until our budget review at the end of the year. Payloads of 1.2 Tons or less will be able to launch on a Longbow 1 into LEO for £18.6 million per launch, this low cost will be our main selling point and we hope to use some of the funds raised by the launches to develop a possible GEO or higher payload variants. Thank you everyone for your time and i hope to see you next week for the launch of BosSatCom

Update 1 From Gene Kernworth (CE of UKSA) Good afternoon everyone In the last few months we have been testing our guidance units at our newly built test launch site in Omelek of the Marshall Islands. The following tests used the Sounding Rocket TestRoc1 and I am pleased too announce that the guidance systems successfully sent TestRoc1 in a stable assent of 125 Km. After another 3 test flights, which again were all successful, the system as been approved for use in the Sky Chaser Program. The Sky Chaser program has the lofty targets of sending a 550kg payload into a suborbital trajectory on a shoe string budget of £16 Million. The Launch System above is the first entry of this program called Sky Chaser 1. The system consists of a single stage propelled by a Mk1 Vanguard engine on Liquid Oxygen and Kerosene. The core elements of the proven TestRoc1 guidance system has been moved over to Sky Chaser 1 and again I am pleased to announce that the first test launch reached 195Km, sending back important telemetry and scientific data for future launches. The second launch of Sky Chaser 1 with a redesigned Mk1 Vanguard engine to provide more thrust, leading to another attitude record 220Km. There was also enough deltaV for a possible orbit attempt however the guidance system ran out of power towards apoapsis leading to a lost of contact. With suborbital flight achieved ahead of schedule, a new goal was given to the launch system development team to achieve orbit with the coming Sky Chaser 2. The Sky Chaser 2 uses the same core stage of Sky Chaser 1 along with a added orbital stage using a trio of aerobe developed small thrusters burning nitric acid/aniline. The guidance system again is off the proven TestRoc1 and with a extra 4.2k of deltaV the hopes of this launch system hitting orbit was high. Sadly Test 1 burned up 12 seconds after launch, premature firing of the second stage engines was believed to be the fault, Test 2 first stages burn as successful but two of the second stage thrusters failed to fire. Test 2 splashed down near Omelek and the launch team concluded that there was vapor in the nozzles which lead to a engine shutdown. 3 Months of redesigned staging and RnD on the Sky Chasers propulsion systems Test 3 was ready to be launched. Test 3 Launch T-1 Lift off T-0 Stage 1 engines successful firing T+ 20 Stable ascent and Pitchover T+ 25 Guidance System malfunction T+ 28 Sky Chaser goes off course T+ 37 Skychaser collides with SPH building I am pleased to announce that no one was hurt explosion thanks to our great range team but i must regretfully announce that this event was followed with the cancellation of the Sky Chaser program with all systems parts used in the program being retired. We hope that the combined efforts of the Space Tech team (developing new guidance and control systems) and Launch development team in Project Sherwood will allow use to hit our Year 1 deadline for sending WCSAT into earth's orbit. Thank you everyone for your time and Good day. (I should of got a screenshot of Sky Chaser 2 hitting the SPH but I was too busy trying to avoid the island )

The United Kingdom joins the Space Race! The United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA) has been founded today. Gene Kernworth, Agency Chief Exec, gave us his plans and Year 1 budget. ' Today the United Kingdom will join NASA and Soviet programs in the quest for space. For a too long we have stood on the sideline while the US and USSR make groundbreaking developments which British minds could of and should of made, We stand by no longer with the founding of the UKSA. Our goals are to rise through the sky with British built and designed rockets, enter space with the union jack, taking our place in the solar system as one of the leading pioneers of space. And with those goals here is the year 1 budget on the program. A total budget of £255 Million which includes cooperation with NASA in the earth observation, working with UK universities in basic science, development of the UK's first launch systems and satellites, training of the newly founded UKS Astronaut corp and designing of human space flight modules. And yes I can see that our budget is small in comparison to the US and Soviet programs however by the end of the year we aim to successfully send a British satellite into orbit using British launch systems. We already have begun tests of a Light Launch Vehicle (LLV) called Longbow 1 which we hope to launch with the WCSAT (Weather and Climate Satellite) in the near future. I thank you all for your time in coming to this unveiling and I hope that to call you soon with the news of our success, Good night to you all'