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Siren!

There is a chance, but personally i don't think it will. I'd put my bet on february-march

Teaser for (one of) the missions in the next post:

Wayne hale agrees

It shouldn't be apart from a couple i deleted to free up space

No worries! Most of the missions were made in JNSQ, until the lunar shuttle test; beyond that, i had to change to the stock system since my laptop had some issue i don't know that reduced its usable RAM quite a bit, to the point i couldn't really use both JNSQ and the visual mods anymore

This makes no sense, but you know that already so there's no point arguing Also, today's the 50th anniversary of the last N1 flight!

Indeed they are usually, i tend to release the module first and then capture it with the arm once it's in the position i want for the screenshot, as manuevring them to the intended is nearly impossible. Hopefully once I add OMVs and/or station-based tugs that will become even easier As for the C-200s, that one was a very complicated kitbash between BDB and KNES in order to add a section with a smaller diameter to the modules and then place them in there to remain shielded during launch as they would have been in the real thing

Nooooooooo

Woah, that was so unexpected

The Science and Applications Manned Space Platform (SAMSP) From back when NASA was still hoping the orbiter would guarantee cheap access to space and space platforms were being proposed left and right, both in LEO and GEO Imagine that, but docked with a Dragon that carries new payloads in the trunk like with the Bishop airlock and that Bigelow thing

Iirc, NRHO already has no LOS during it's orbit - the problem is that Orion isn't going to NRHO, but a Distant Retrograde Orbit

No clue why it wasn't shown during launch instead, but still coll. Shame the SRB came were removed

The lastest news I can find is that 20 hours ago the DSN tried to connect first from Canberra and then from Goldstone with NEA Scout, receiving no signal back either time. No DSN antenna is trying to contact it now, perhaps because it's in an unfavourable position They should have more time than OMOTENASHI since there's no burns to make afaik, but at the same time the fact that unlike JAXA they were never able to get any signal from it isn't good

Was the the plan for every launch window, or were we just unlucky it ended up synchronizing like this?

Oh, good question. ICPS is going to a solar orbit now, so i believe the same is true for OMOTENASHI

Right? I won't even complain about the glorious 720p this time, seeing a powered lunar flyby live is so cool. Also, Orion has just entered the far side of the moon - i assume by the time it has to start the burn it will be in direct contact with earth again, right?

It's been deployed by the ICPS after TLI, so it is about to do a lunar flyby more or less at the same time as Orion

Still about two hours until the time to recover the spacecraft ends. Fingers crossed!

One of the solar panel mounted cams

1978: Odyssey Two (Original poster below) The successful launch of the Odyssey core module opens a new phase of NASA's space station development: unlike its predecessors, interim designs made to only last 2-3 years before being replaced by the next iteration of the basic design, Odyssey has an expected lifetime exceeding one decade and made to be incrementally improved thanks to the reusable Earth-to-Orbit Shuttle's capabilities. As such, the 10 meters station sent to orbit on the last Saturn V on the last post is only the starting point of the assembly of the full structure; today, the first three modules are going up to join it into a basic, fully operational configuration. You may remember this slide from the previous post: Other than showing one of the proposed '75 space station configuration, it's also the first page of a series of NTRS reports detailing some of the first modular designs made by NASA, the so called "common modules". The idea behind it is pretty sound: designing a small number of basic Shuttle-sized modules that can be built in series and adapted to fit all the experiments types that an Odyssey-type station may require, from space telescopes to synthetic aperture radars. I'll describe each common module in more detail in their respective missions, but in short: - the CM-1 type is made to fit every free flying telescope; it's capable of docking and undocking from Odyssey autonomously, move in its vicinity, be refueled and point precisely towards any point in space - the CM-2 type, quite confusingly, doesn't actually exist: it was originally made for experiments necessitating a certain amount of acceleration detached from the space station, for instance to study fluid physics, but as the study progressed the decision was made to eliminate it and split its role between CM-1 modules and CM-3 modules with the addition of a small propulsion module that isn't part of the CM numbering - the CM-3 type is a typical space station module; it's a single compartment, 14 feet diameter module adaptable to most space station based experiments that can't detach or dock on its own. Some of the proposed uses are material sciences and cosmic ray research - the CM-4 type is also a typical space station module, but unlike CM-3 it has a dual compartment to be able to accomodate the last types of experments that didn't fit the previous designs, like space biology With the introduction behind us, it's time for some launches! CM-1: The Solar Astronomy Telescope While Tenacity has been temporarily moved to fuel tanker launches, slowly refilling the LH2/LOX depot to prepare for the next missions, the rest of the fleet has a full schedule to support the space station operations; the first to go is Endeavour, ready to carry the first of the common modules to orbit (but not to the space station ). The first of the common modules to be launched is the CM-1-based Solar Astronomy Telescope; powered by two 1 kW solar panels, it sports 5 different instruments focused on studying the sun: 1-1/2 meter UV-visible telescope 0.25 meter spectroheliograph 0.5 meter grazing incidence X-ray telescope 1-6 solar radii coronagraph 5-30 solar radii coronagraph Unlike the other common modules, this one will be deployed as a free flying satellite; it will then complete the climb to the station on its own after deployment is complete, while the EOS crew completes their two weeks long sortie mission on their own Once the onboard crew has completed the checkouts, the CM-1 ready to go; the telescope activates its onboard engines and detaches from Endeavour, starting a mission that will hopefully last for a decade or more CM-3: The Physics & Chemistry Lab It's Enterprise's turn now: her and Orion will carry respectively the smallest and biggest station-based Common Module, both being CM-3 types. She is carrying the Physics & Chemistry Laboratory, a basic modification of the basic CM-3 module depicted below; functioning as an experiment airlock, the facilities it provides include a chemistry lab, metallographic apparatus, X-ray diffraction machine, and a mass spectrograph. After traslating to the RAM-mounted docking port with the help of the robotic arm, Enterprise's pilot starts moving towards the Odyssey aft docking ring, soon-to-be home of the station's most important research labs This first part of the assembly will be followed up soon: as Enterprise undocks from the station, the CM-3 CRL is already in orbit and ready to take its place CM-3: The Cosmic Ray Lab As I said above, the last common module to appear in this post is the largest module proposed: with a length of over 15 meters, the Cosmic Ray Laboratory is so big that I had to remove any kind of docking or berthing port from my EOS model to make it fit (at the time there were proposals of inflatable docking tunnels and ports that would have fit in this configuration, but unfortunately the proposed kind doesn't exist in KSP ) The CRL is one of the most heavily modified CMs, to the point where its main scanners are placed in an isolate section added on top of the CM-3 and with a separate pressure vessel; it's also by far the heaviest common module due to its superconducting magnets payload, weighting almost 17 tons. Unlike the rest, it will also need a separate cryogenic coolant storage, lasting for 1 year before needing to be replaced by an EOS flight Shortly after the berthing is complete and the connection finalized, the first cosmic ray experiments are deployed and readied for the next crew Next up: the 1978 planetary probes