Kerballlistic07

Ok, what if, tell me if this is stupid, there could be a version of KSP1 online? Not full 1.12.5 or any super recent release, but an older version. Perhaps 1.0 could be made available, or maybe something even older, like 0.20. This idea stems from what Mojang did a few years ago with an older version of Minecraft. They have a really old version online at https://classic.minecraft.net/. I think it would be really fun. What do you guys think?

I think an iPad version is well overdue. The iPad is as powerful as a Mac at this point, so why can't we have an iPad version? iPad's also have keyboard mouse support, so I see no reason why it can't be done. Mobile could be done as well, though it would have to be changed quite a bit. (Note, when I say iPad, Android tablet's can be included to, but not all of them are powerful enough to run it.)

I saw the first part in my forums digest and knew I had to see this concerning contraption. I grew more concerned when I saw the upper stage. But yet, weird rockets like this are what make the game fun sometimes

Chihuahua

Astra

When you press period to time warp while watching a video

I’m partial to the first one

I know I can change it, but I don't really want to just because it's one of those things that was unintentional but ended up being funny anyways. (It makes for a funny signature ) Looking forward to it!

I say choice 2 as well, and though I enjoy shiny Orion, I kind of want to see the white one more with black windows.

It will have “configurable settings options,” so the wobbliness will likely be able to be changed.

It’s true. While I personally don’t have a problem with it, the rest of the community will, and the devs unfortunately already receive a lot of undeserved disrespect.

Thanks for all the hard work KSP team! Looking forward to “For Science!”

Boom

I found rocket science in the last place on Earth I expected it to be... https://www.reddit.com/r/PhoenixSC/comments/17bnnwc/im_a_bit_late_but_i_hope_it_wins/k5klodh/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I've never heard of hailing the probe before, but I'll do it anyway!

Not a meme per say, but still funny. This was when Russia went full Kerbal mode in 2013 and basically installed the probe core upside down...

Dres was never meant to be colonized. That’s because it doesn’t exist.

The only issue I can really see with using an inflatable heat shield is that it might not be reusable. I haven’t looked into it a ton, but wouldn’t it be too damaged to reuse? Also deflating it and getting it ready for reuse might be too much. If they can make it cheap enough, it might not matter though.

A video can be far more useful than words sometimes. It allows you to get a look at what someone means. A picture is worth a thousand words, so a video’s gotta be worth more… I do think it’s a good idea, it could be added officially in KSP2, but in KSP1, it could be modded in.

Max-Q

I would say the first stage would be Vulcan derived, basically it would be the main core of Vulcan, but different engines. I do agree that it would likely use Ursa Major engines. The only Ursa Major engine that uses methalox as its fuel is the currently under development Arroway. I think it would use multiple of these, with one in the center and 2-4 on the outside. This is because if they plane to propulsively land the booster, they wouldn’t want all the engines to fire at once otherwise it would have too high of a TWR. I say 2-4 because I’m not sure how much thrust would be needed for it to liftoff. The side boosters are something I’m not sure of. I think they could go the Space Shuttle route and use big solid side boosters, and then have them splash down in the ocean under parachute, but they could attempt a fly back booster. I think that they might also go a different route and not have side boosters at all, similar to Falcon 9. They could do a Falcon Heavy move though and strap the 3 cores together for more performance. I feel like that is most likely. The upper stage I feel would absolutely still be hydrolox because ULA knows how to handle it, and it has incredible performance. The RL10 would definitely not be used because is costs way too much to produce, and has low thrust. I think they might use a BE-3U, but as you said, Blue Origin might not want to do that. If they did use the BE-3U or something similar, it would probably have an extendable nozzle since it would need to land back on Earth. Another alternative I really like is doing something like Stoke Space, and using an aerospike engine and heat shield combined into one. It would be similar to ACES in the way that it could stay in space as a propellant depot, but then it could be brought back eventually. I think that if they don’t use an aerospike engine like Stoke, they would use an inflatable heat shield similar to what they currently plan to do with SMART reuse. (A Starship style second stage doesn’t seem likely to me.) They could either then try and flip the stage around and propulsively land it, or they could use parachutes and catch it with a helicopter. As for its name? It could be something new, it could be basic like “Vulcan Evolved,” or it could be a resurrection of an old name, like Titan. I think payload capacity would be on par with Terran R, maybe better.

Hmm, I’m not sure. I don’t think there are any. Definitely not a big shiny water tower…

I live 20ish miles from the pad and I’ve started taking my telescope out for the launches and tracking them. The views are spectacular. This one was probably my favorite I’ve ever tracked. The way the plume changes colors is just incredible!

One concept is to fly a Soyuz spacecraft around the Moon. While there have been many concepts to do this, the one I was thinking of was this: a Soyuz spacecraft is launched aboard a Soyuz rocket, and a separate Zenit rocket carries a Fregat upper stage to LEO. The Soyuz meets up with the Fregat and docks. Then, the Fregat does a TLI which puts the Soyuz on a free-return trajectory around the Moon. This was conceptualized by Space Adventures, and it would have flown with one Russian Cosmonaut and 2 tourists. It is known that one tourist payed for the trip, but who knows if it will ever actually fly. It will not fly with that plan for certain because the Zenit rocket is no longer flying. The Fregat would have to be launched on another vehicle. The Soyuz rocket doesn’t have enough energy to launch both the Fregat and Soyuz spacecraft. Russian launch vehicles are incredibly limited right now, so it would probably have to fly aboard another Soyuz rocket or an Angara. But let’s be real: it’s the Russian space program. It’s probably not going to happen… This could probably be done in Kerbal fairly easily. Soyuz parts exist in the stock game, and Zenit booster wouldn’t be hard to recreate. What are your thoughts about this mission? Space Adventures link to “circumlunar mission”: https://spaceadventures.com/experiences/circumlunar-mission/ Wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Adventures

Interesting. I figured that they would just load it before it was put in the fairing, but I also wasn’t sure that was possible. Thanks!