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Booster skirt jettison on most Atlas versions is optimal at a point where the Sustainer stage will be left with around 1:1 TWR. I think some of the performance charts are linked in the BDB wiki but otherwise you can check for yourself by defueling the rocket with the skirt removed until you get 1.0 twr. Then attach the skirt and the starting vac TWR you see is when to jettison. In the included BDB Mercury Atlas craft file this is at 3.56 TWR. Also the tower is jettisoned after skirt sep. With Mechjeb PVG| 32 degrees| 110x150km| booster pitch rate 0.5deg/s| booster pitch start 50m/s| I was able to reach orbit with over 700m/s dv left launching from the cape in KSRSS reborn.

One of the Orion 50 models, I forget the designation. The build is also missing the 3rd stage cos I was in a rush but don't tell anyone (that would be a shorter Orion 50).

Should work if you get a direct link to the image ending in .png .jpg etc. Can even just paste the link into the text directly and it will auto embed in the forum. If you post your module manager log and config cache might be able to find the culprit. But if you dont have any LS mods that looks relatively harmless. I guess a rogue LS patch in another mod is triggering the BDB patch incorrectly.

I dont have a full timeline as the documentation I have are from the later years but best I can tell it started out exclusively assuming a Gemini crew vehicle but then morphed to an Apollo baseline by the mid 60s. Do you have Kerbalism? If so that needs to be fixed on their side. But in the meantime it should be relatively harmless. I believe this means that when you switch to the double sized radiators you will not get double cooling power until this conflict is fixed. Not great but also wont kill your game.

1.5 and 1.25m fairings for Taurus/Minotaur C. The 1.25 is new and the 1.5 is the same as Minotaur IV.

Just merged the new IVAs into the 1.11 dev branch. Some might need a few more props and a handful have placeholder textures (will be done properly maybe in June when I have time) but most are quite usable and the hero ones like the ETS Lab module and the historical Skylab MDA are quite complete.

Its a lot more work than you think, would need some very tedious work with collider variants and would conflict with the new IVAs. Those issues are solvable albeit would require more work than I'm motivated to do right now but putting that aside cutting it down to bottom of the black base would 100% interfere with the new IVAs that were made recently.

Thats a possibility for KSP2 eventually but no plans right now.

no such plans for a switch on the ERM sorry.

No I'm not really planning on anything for the bay, feel free to put in anything you like. SIM bay and other Skylab/AAP science makes sense thematically.

Keep an eye on the thread and also the issues list on github. Most major new projects will get a dedicated "New parts" tagged tracking issue https://github.com/CobaltWolf/Bluedog-Design-Bureau/issues

Didn't I make actual athena and minotaur IV fairings?

ETS European Module IVA

Completed MDA IVA with props.

Your first embed isnt loading. But the lower image looks mostly correct. But they are not meant to be used together with the rack part. The rack is for the Plutonium Brayton Generator and would be used instead of the solars. Simply clip the solars into the hollow section, one higher than the other.

Thats not the waterfall plume. If you have it installed there is something wrong with your installation. (or a mod conflict or something)

There are dynamic plumes for both Waterfall and Realplume. I dont have any intention of developing custom plumes for the stock system anymore.

BDB does not affect any stock parts. Our own parachutes all use their own textures. If you mean BDB should patch our textures onto stock chutes thats neither feasible nor within scope. Restock makes stock chutes look very nice though.

Most of the thanks should go towards @JonnyOThan , while I am happy to texture these there's no way I would have worked up the motivation or find the time to actually model these and set them up. This wouldn't be happening if not for his initiative.

Thats is the plan and work on it has started. Its not just freeIVA configs and colliders, JonnyOthan has been kind enough to take on the job of actually creating IVA shells for many of the missing IVAs in BDB. With him taking on the job of making the shells, ensuring everything lines up and doing the final setup, we decided to collaborate on them where I will be texturing them and adding some extra stuff. The collaboration is going well and we've completed a few although prop work is still pending on these. Aft MDA and airlock European research module Historical Skylab MDA with console Wet workshop airlock It will be a little while before these are merged into the dev branch though as we make our way through the list of IVAs.

So we just added it to the description of the part but wanted to warn everyone again, just like the Skylab workshop, the MORL radial docking ports use the jettison module and this is buggy if the part is the root. When reloading the scene the covers will return (and you can't jettison them again). As such we recommend making another part the root of the craft before launch. The ideal option would be whatever docking port you have at the top node.

Early alpha for the MORL parts up on github. Parts could be buggy right now, I'll do a second pass on the configs tomorrow. Let me know if there are major issues. (RCS waterfall is missing I know, will do them tomorrow). Note the red stripes are a conformal decal. Its included in the BDB decal part if CD is installed. Text is the default Conformal Decal text part with USAF font. Still a few things to sort out but it can be flown into orbit on a Saturn IB in 2.7x scale.

No I've not modelled the hatch. Its function would be entirely cosmetic in this case, it would need to be a seal without a collider that sits in the cone. I have thought about it but undecided what exactly to do about it and how to model it if I do. This texture sheet has filled up and this wasn't designed with variants in mind. So I can't make simple derivatives of these. But I will consider it for the future.

One more addition to the upcoming MORL partset, a Resistojet electric RCS pod. Not too common in KSP mods, resistojets are commonplace in irl GEO satellites. They pass current through a resistive element to heat fluid which can be non reactive. The MORL proposals studied using hydrogen, ammonia and biowaste recovered CO2 (from scrubbers). In game there will be 2 configs, H2 and Monoprop using ammonia stats. One of the options for biowaste recovery was water recovered from poop, though CO2 won out at least within the biowaste category. I think the bare version set to H2 config will be a nice match for nuclear vessels.

I shouldn't have said impossible but rather messy and problematic (ie needing to deal with robotics and so on). I put it in the spoiler in my earlier comment but this is the setup. Perhaps people can kitbash this, but Im not interesting in doing this as bespoke parts. Gemini is a bit different but broadly similar.