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Beccab

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  1. 7 hours ago, Taco Salad said:

    WOW, gotta say you make the best looking kitbash builds I've ever seen. 
    Got a few things to ask. 
    1: What was the name of the mod used for the early apollo capsule design? I remember finding it once, and then loosing it.
    2: how do you get those red decorative stripes, are they just a ton of MORL red stripe decals?
    3: Do you have any notable inspirations for these, or were they all just off the cuff designs, cause damn, you really nailed the look and feel of everything, even the Soviet probe.

    On top of what others said, the red stripes and overall recoloring is done with conformaldecals, usually through the custom text part.

    The designs are a mix of real and fictional: the CRAF design is real, just as Pioneer Agena, the D-2, the IOWS and the Galactic Jupiter Probe, while Kometa is fictional (more on the design in the tantares thread), just as the LEO D-2, AAP MOL and that specific C-3 design

  2. 44 minutes ago, The Dressian Exploder said:

    What's the pointy spacecraft? It's something I don't recognise. What mod is it from, as I don't think the aerospike at least is from BDB. I saw the old Alternate Apollo mod but as far as I'm aware it never had anything like that. Very nice images, by the way!

    That's a kitbash of an uncrewed version of the DARPA Space Cruiser!
    117631-39c56fd1e9bcbce2554fde566c6fe6c9.Space Cruiser

  3. 2 minutes ago, tater said:

    Also, does this mean literally no "US Persons" in this refugee category have ever applied for and been denied from any other defense contractor, or is the DOJ going against all defense contractors all the time for this, or does LockMart, etc, simply hire them?

    They have. Aerojet is the most recent to be sued

  4. 24 minutes ago, OrbitalManeuvers said:

    Well, this will be interesting! Not sure what the minimal capture burn would be at the optimal transfer window, but with the current TWR at Mars, a 400m/s maneuver is a 20 minute burn. And we don't have lander mass yet, or the scaled down thrust ...

    That's pretty accurate, the real burn lasted nearly an hour

  5. 4 hours ago, grawl said:

    Or that they're slowly reaching the limits of reusability.

    Ageing furniture and an escalating launch rate ain't working well together sometimes... :sealed:

    I mean, many of those are weather related. The scrub before this one for instance

  6. 12 minutes ago, sevenperforce said:

    I don't believe any vehicle has ever launched with a first-stage moveable nozzle extension, except maybe some of the earliest solid rocket ICBM designs.

    Nobody actually built anything with that architecture, but it was somewhat heavily proposed during the early shuttle program for drop tank designs, such as Starclipper. The relative engine is the XLR-129
    deliveryService?id=NASM-A19740728000_PS0

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