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Shuttle

Very very original ik

I. In the announcement of Orion program it was stated that it would go through 3 phases before attempting mun landing.

1. Build a kerbal rated vehicle that can put astronaut in space reliably, cheaply and is reusable
2. Build a space station that can keep kerbals there for months allowing research into long-term exposure of kerbals to space
3. Develop a new launch system that can carry kerbals to the moon and transport materials there that can allow permit stay

                                                               -The launch system program must cost less than $8 billion dollars

Many concept ideas were purposed to meet the first phase, from traditional capsules that would carry crew compartment having to be docked in orbit to SSTO however the designs that peaked interests at management and the air force was the shuttle design. It was designed to release, return and fix satellites in orbit. Had huge payload bay capacity and could put 6 kerbals into orbit for 2 weeks. These designs hit goals or exceed what KHA wanted making it easy sale pitch for government, KHA management and air force. You also had the fact that only 1 piece of the launch vehicle was not reusable, something that the SSTO concepts were the only ones was capable of competing with meaning it would win the competition in 2008.

The shuttle Reliant being used for aerodynamic testing on Shuttle carrier vehicle

II. Testing the design of shuttle would begin in 2011 but building of the first shuttle named Endurance would start in 2016, costing $6 billion per orbiter due to their complexity. You also had cost of building facility's that could support shuttle (i.e new runway) which was $800 million dollars. You also fact that KHA would have to dedicate 17% of its entire budget initially and after 8 years it would have be 20%. These high cost and budget requirements would be death nail for most programs if wasn't for the fact that the contractor promised it would "pay itself off eventually*" and carry military payloads if required. The contractor also projected that could build and support 6 shuttles and if the demand was there up to 10 with expansions of their facilities, but the program would only get funding for 3 due to how experimental it was so the 2 other shuttles built named Discovery and Pathfinder was in 2018.

The first shuttle to fly was obviously Endurance in late 2023 being flown by two female kerbals and they would stay in space for 4 days before landing successfully back at KSC.

Future?

III. The shuttle program so far has had 10 flights since it was announced operational including polar orbit. The builder of shuttle has started work on new shuttle named Adventure that will have new engines that will have twice the performance of their predecessor by using liquid hydrogen and oxygen. Also included in these upgrades are new SRBS, updated avionics, and Endurance would get these upgrades as well.

Space station & Successor. Now that its 2025 the first modules for the space station are now in development and the shuttle will be key part in building plus maintaining the station for a time before replacement is made which wont be long. See a private company just recently demonstrated heavy launch that's fully reusable, able put payloads beyond mun orbit (Octavia Space Telescope) and return it successfully. This has for obvious reasons raise concerns at shuttle's management so secretly development of vehicle that can compete with starship has started even though current shuttle doesn't even have retirement date.

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Inui Upgrades

A advertisement of the new Inui satellites on the new launch vehicle

 

Its been 10 years since the first Inui satellites started operation, putting 4 satellites into high kerbin orbit. They've greatly improved communication across the nation for the general public however their life cycle are coming to a close as 2 of the satellites have suffered critical failures putting one in storage to only be used in emergency situations while the other failed entire becoming a dead satellite that projected to re-entered kerbin in 2023. Next gen also includes more modern antennas resulting in reduce latency, smaller solar panels but great energy generation, better batteries that last longer, ability to handle multiple communication lines and better relay of deep space probes communication (I will get to that). Next gen is planning to have all of the 6-8 satellites in geostationary orbit with 2 extra as back-ups.

 

Inui old satellite thats still operational

I wonder what the kerbal program is doing are doing?

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"Nothing beyond our reach" except cost...

2018:

Finallllllllllllllly the first Sunflowers fly on the Delta IV for cheap cost of $280 million per launch. Making the 3 launches cost $840 million already when the projected it would cost that much after 6 launches. The cost-over, mismanagement plus the insane cost to launch these satellites would cause change with how the program approached launch vehicles (Instead of management). The Administration wants a cheap, reliable, and quick to build rocket and ULA (The contractor for Delta & Atlas) dosent have anything currently but development of rocket called "Vulcan" would promise this idea. however it is years away from being ready so a short-term solution is offered from boeing (ULA parent company) that uses the still in production Delta IV second stage and bring back the old Delta II first stage and srbs (retired in 2010) which would slash development cost more than half compared to Delta IV. This "new rocket" was called Delta III.

ULA would follow this promise as the test flights of Delta III would fly in 2020-2023

The success of Delta III test would put her sister on life support.

Spoiler

Some photos of Delta IV

 

Next up Inui communication replacements

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edit 1: made logo that was inspired by KASA logo but add some small details to make it more unique

Kerbin Horizons Meatball

Background:

Hi everyone who decided to read this awful first post I'm doing a fictional story of my space administration named KHA this is still a developing so things will change but before I give very short intro into the series let me put down couple notes.

• This is all sandbox so any mission objectives I make are made up
• some of these missions are based of real-life missions
• I don't have screenshots for every mission because I just came up with this idea and some are too boring for screenshots
• I'm new to this so excuse my awfulness
• Some screenshots are older so decals and tufx could be out of date
• Most if not all of the rockets are real life rockets (mainly American) there might be some kinks compared to their real life counter-parts and they will use their real life names

 

Intro:

I put it in spoiler if you don't wanna scroll through all of that

Spoiler

2000:

A new millennium has just hit kerbin and the agency as well. The future for the agency has never looked brighter as the planned programs that are being developed are some of the biggest since the administration was founded as they would finally get the funding needed to develop brand new kerbal rated rockets to bring the nation back into kerbal space. A thing that's been missing since the ending of the Tracer program back in 1970. 1970 in general was hard for the agency as the race for space ended it was gutted of its funding making it barely able to afford orbital class rockets that could put communication sats in GKO (Geostationary Kerbin Orbit). But now with the rising digital age on kerbin and the perceived lacking behind compared to other countries has caused the new President to push for more presence in space causing a huge funding jump making it one of the most well funded space programs on the planet.

2005:

After much talking behind the scenes the public finally knows that name of these new programs in development and their contractors the first is the new Communication network named Inui.

Its amazing patch ik

The next is a very high idea for nation that's only been in Kerbin orbit and that is a Mun programed that wants to put the first kerbals on the moon and the name is Orion.
This gets a lot attention from other nations and the general public Causing many to be excited for the program but wrapped under it is the plan to develop the Nation kerbal space flight to be cheaper and reusable.

Very original name and patch

Finally a program that flies under many people radars but makes the air force happy is the Sunflower program. Behind close doors the air force and intelligence agency were big helpers with getting the agency back on its feet due to them having their own ideas they wanted in space.

 

2013: 10 years before present day

The first Inui sats finally go up even though their not cutting edge for communication sats there better than nothing

The first Orion launches were suppose to happen this year but delays have pushed that back to 2020 or later

Sunflower development is not well know, many rumors that delays and cost over-runs threaten the program

And rumors go around of KHA looking into funding the private sector of space flight after the success of Falcon 9