Kimera Industries

Floor 4520: The Artemis Lunar Gateway station.

Banned for banning people with cats. How dare you use them this way!

The internet bans you for not making that into a cat meme.

That's totally fair. It'll be in its own world, then.

The Korolev Launch System is now available on KerbalX! Feel the rush as you pilot your kerbals to orbit on this Soyuz derivative! https://kerbalx.com/Kimera_Industries/Korolev-LS Enjoy! More ships coming soon!

Makes perfect sense, that's why I figured it would take a while. Hey, I've had this idea to make a mission report following Kimera Industries like this thread follows KASA. Could they exist in the same story? That way I could fly my ships how I want and focus on the private company without it getting in the way of this thread, but the co-ops between the two would still influence both. It's totally fine if you don't want to, it's just a wild idea.

Floor 4514: The SLS for said astronauts.

Will it eventually reach the point where vehicles are being submitted? Probably a long way away even if so.

This is one of my personal favorites! RocketFizz has now expanded to cover more of the drinks.

Banned for the dog's tail

Floor 4514: A training facility for the Artemis II astronauts.

Well, if there is a payload in the rocket, we can see from the shadow of the launch tower on the fairing that the shadow below should show the top of the rocket. However, the shape doesn't quite match up with the fairing, so if the shadow FX for the fairings is broken (which is likely) I'd say based on the shape that it's MOSS. Could be completely wrong about this, just a guess.

You know, I'll bet my Duna ship from my science save could go to Dres. If I removed all the aero parts, it would have a lot more potential- plenty of biome hopping. Dres would have actually been a better choice to go to first since it's only a little harder than landing on Minmus, probably the easiest planet (though not moon) in the solar system.

The harmonious society uses the freeze-drying machine to create food for their interplanetary ships and explore the stars, munching on freeze-dried apples. It's a tie! Rock-paper-scissors-shoot, anything you want to do!

Thanks! Much appreciated.

Problem fixed! Will install a mod in the future that prevents the problem from reoccurring.

The name of the lander is the LIG "Feather." A lightweight, 2-person Minmus lander capable of landing under its own power, deploying a rover, and holding cargo for surface science, its name is Legkiy Geolander, or "Lightweight Geolander." A project that may be scrapped with the introduction of the Zdaniye modular base system was the LUG lander, the Lunnyy Universal'nyy Gruzovoz, or Lunar Universal Cargo Carrier. But I like that name, so it may stay.

I would like the poll removed from this thread, please:

The poll has now closed! The next mission will be Korolev 7, a kerbaled mission exploring one of Minmus's plains with a rover. Thanks to all who voted!

The poll will be closing in a few hours. Get your votes in if you haven't!

I discovered in the making of the above post that my loosely N1-inspired rocket is horrendously laggy and has terrible TWR. On top of that, the lander barely had enough fuel for a rendezvous and would need upgrades to carry a small rover later on as planned. I spent most of my time the other day upgrading it, here's how: 1. Replaced all the T-45 engines with Vectors. The improved efficiency and thrust means less is required, improving on parts count. 2. Removed small, radial fuel tanks. The N1's stages are diagonal on the sides, and I filled up the space with"baguette" tanks. Removing them decreased the total Dv, but the efficiency of the Vectors made up for it. It also reduced parts count and weight. 3. Lengthened the vacuum stage. The upper stage does all the hard work of getting to Minmus and isn't very long to begin with. I extended it, improving the total weight it can carry and giving me a larger margin of error for everything. 4. Improved lander design. The hatch for the lander is actually 90 degrees away from the ladder. I avoided this in my post by making it look like they had climbed out by setting them on the ladder with their EVA packs. This was an easy-to-fix, simple oversight. 5. Changed the fuel tanks from the small spheres to the baguettes, rearranged the antenna, and removed the lights- they took up valuable radial space I would need for the rover. To countereffect the weight of the rover on one side, storage boxes with surface science will be on the other side and both will be ditched before takeoff. Hopefully, the next mission will go much faster for me and be a lot easier as well.