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Shots fired....at the moon. Report from the RiS, the W Industries' Marlin I was an unmitigatedly smashing success, on year 2, day 281 (or October 7, 1952 for normal people) the Marlin I probe sailed into the Moon's SOI, ultimately impacting near its south pole: More images: https://imgur.com/a/T7ok2sc Full Video: https://youtu.be/jeRA_gp85UU

Thanks so much Steve! Doing my best, but afraid I'm falling a bit behind some of the other more experienced players. We shall see! I added all the crazy textures myself, if you want to use them, they're available here, feel free, also includes pretty much every national flag out there (and the fairings don't actually work, not sure why yet, gotta figure that out): https://github.com/mattwrobel/wrobz-ksp-textures

W Industries reporting out of French Guiana. We've had a tumultous first 252 days, culminating in the successful orbitting of our first satellite. Hindsight being 20-20, there are many things we may have done differently, but forge on we must! Our program's inaugural flight was the Minnow I, consisting of a core with minimal science capabilities and a parachute for recoverability: After the success of the Minnow, the program aimed for (and achieved) the Karman line with the Bluegill I: Subsequent Bluegill flights added science instruments and were pointed in various directions until all available nearby biomes were covered. Additional Bluegill flights carried contracted sounding payloads as well. As the requirements for these increased and our R&D department released the XASR variant for use, we developed the Sunfish for higher and heavier payloads (sometimes with science instruments attached as well): At this point, as other space agencies were reporting manned launch successes, W Industries panicked and rushed to get their own going, which led to the hasty, but successful launch of the Silverside I, which took 2 extremely brave astronauts to a height of 149km in a cockpit that probably shouldn't have been sent that high (but was ok by house rules): As sounding rocket requirements increased, the Bullhead was developed along the same lines: Finally, with further materials research and an upgraded launching pad, we proudly announced GO for orbit with the Barracuda I with a triple RD-101 first stage, nitrogen RCS, a triple XASR second stage, and single XASR third stage: W Industries is now entering the planning stages of phase 2, good luck everyone! Wrobz