Invaderchaos

Correct. Technically speaking, the mass distribution and shape of the satellite would likely cause it to become semi gravity gradient stabilized, but I am unsure to what extent. I thought about doing some other parts utilizing the mesh for the Pegasus MM Panels, but I'm pretty burnt out on Pegasus and the texture sheet is pretty much full so if I do any alternate stuff with it, it will be later.

Some more texturing progress for Pegasus:

Pegasus Micrometeorite Satellite built out of an S-IV. Launched on Saturn I w/ Apollo Boilerplates. Designed to study meteorite impacts, the big panels are mm detectors.

Really getting there with Pegasus. Just starting to texture: I used the jettisonable fairing while testing? As this is the actual version used in the mission. I am not sure if the drag issues were totally fixed, but I know Zorg made a couple tweaks. I'll test it again tomorrow

I'm not sure what's going on then since that's what I tested my Saturn IB ASTP on. I flew it manually though

Is your SM fuel variant set to the ASTP mode? Which planet pack are you using?

Yea, I made the black adapter for Pegasus/Apollo Boilerplates, but I also made it so it can be used with the proper CSM. The extension toggle on it was intended to give extra clearance for the SM's engine if a real SM was being used (as I believe the SM engine clips into the S4 IU). As for a white block 3 SM, I will probably make one sooner or later.

Messing around with the Saturn IB parts and I made a Pioneer-based Pluto Flyby Mission:

Apologies, forgot a bracket in the cfg. Made a fix to the SIB Fin (and a couple other cfg fixes to the Saturn I parts while I was at it). Should be good now

ah, I misread my bad

Don't we already have a J-2 sea level?

Made some Saturn IB fin variants and the later version of the 200 series S-IVB Engine Mount:

Making some progress w/ Pegasus:

Pretty much all of the generic BDB fairing bases had 3 paint switches: white, black, and gray (metal). However the generic 2.5m fairing base did not. As the white base did not look the best while using the SIV fairing and the black SA-6 textures for SIV, I wanted to make paint switches for this fairing base. Unfortunately, it did not have its own texture and shared a texture with the 2.5m DCSS interstage. So, to make the rest of the texture space useful, I also made blue and green paint variants for the 2.5m DCSS interstage. Now on github!

Wow, those are some seriously awesome pics!! Every set of screenshots you post always seems to raise the bar

Interesting idea. Currently the AO is baked as if it was in the SLA, but it is possible I can modify this. I will have to think about this

Voyager will be made some time in the future. I have a couple more probes on the horizon (finishing Kepler, Mariner 3-5, and Landsat 1-3) but beyond that I don't have anything concrete. At some point I will also revamp Helios. No idea when any of this will happen. There are plans at all for Viking. I don't think we'd make this in the future as well, as it was a test payload. It was also launched with the Viking Dynamic Simulator which we also will not be doing. However, I do think that the IIIE fairing base has a variant for the Spinx launch (part of the base is gold colored). Anyways, the ASTP S-IVB Payload truss is now on github (as part of the SLA part)!

Been working on a joint project between Bluedog Design Bureau and Tantares, a revamp for APAS 75 for the Apollo Soyuz Test Project. Coming soon!

Ok, an ALPHA version of the APAS 75 docking port is on github. Might be pretty buggy so use at your own risk. I have yet to finish the Soyuz specific variant for Tantares.

APAS 75 is fully modelled and textured. Just need to get it working.

Some more progress on APAS 75: I will start texturing it soon. Soyuz Version that will be featured in Tantares:

APAS 75 is coming along (albeit a little slowly)

Love Animusic. Totally forgot it existed. Also, I am giving into peer pressure and making a little something for ASTP: Might make its way into Tantares as well. Wow, those are some really amazing screenshots! Love the Nimbus derived probe. Don't know if I said it here but Landsat 1-3 parts will be made in the near future.

New Apollo propellant switch for ASTP-like missions on github

Ok to be proactive before anyone says anything about Saturn IB massively struggling to carry the Apollo CSM and the ASTP docking module to orbit, I just found out the ASTP CSM’s total weight is 5,000 kg less than Skylab 3’s CSM. There will likely be another variant for SM propellant amount to reflect this.