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andrewas

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  1. Im pretty sure those girder segments are not fuel crossfeed capable. Not sure how to fix, can you run the fuel lines directly to the engines?
  2. It varies by two orders of magnitude, from virtally nothing at the top of Olympus Mons to a little over 1% of Earth's sea level in the deep valleys.
  3. We're talking about spaceplanes here. Even shuttle has the freedom to land on any orientation of runway with zero dV cost, it has enough energy left when it gets to KSC to fly at least one complete circle before landing. A powered spaceplane can land on any runway it wants to, making other factors, like predominant wind, the surrounding terrain and noise considerations more important than what orientation the spaceplane prefers.
  4. Then forget your inclination around Dres. Break orbit so that you are moving retrograde relative to Dres. Thats possible no matter what your inclination is. That will put you in a lower solar orbit which is a good start towards getting to Kerbin. Then use maneuver nodes to get you home.
  5. Nope, the Earth observer measures each ship at 0.75c. The distance between them, in Earth's reference frame, increases at 1.5Ly/year.
  6. Conservation of energy. You have Neon plus Hydrogen, you create Neon Hydride, which decomposes to Neon plus Hydrogen. This cannot produce or consume energy. The first step will consume vast energy as Neon really does not want to bond with anything - in fact, I don't think any Neon compounds have ever been created. The second step will release that same energy.
  7. Pictures? Or at leat a description of the craft?
  8. KSP gives us zero mass, zero drag, infinite flow fuel lines. No parts fail in any way, unless the design itself is flawed. And, we don't need to worry about cost. In reality, engineering Asparagus is more difficult. The needed pumps are fairly heavy and add additional points of failure. On top of that, real life engines have a much better TWR than KSP engines, so the advantages of Asparagus over simple parallel staging are not as significant. That said, the SpaceX Falcon 9 Heavy does use asparagus staging with two boosters.
  9. At a guess, you installed the game under program files and KSP can\'t handle the virtual store system windows uses to keep user programs from writing under program files. Install it somewhere else and it\'ll work.
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