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    Reddit post Full imgur album 2021 update: generation ship This person continues to top their previous missions listed in the album. First visiting Jool and the planets from the Outer Planets Mod (which inspired me to revive my KASDA thread), then conducting a Daedalus-style interstellar flyby ("Star Boom 1") with a fusion-powered spacecraft assembled using Extraplanetary Launchpads and KSP Interstellar Extended and fueled using a Jool SSTO with nuclear turbojets - that's right, it enters Jool's atmosphere to scoop Deuterium and Helium-3 (although it would take days of real life time, so save file editing was used), then returns to orbit. And now, they've made an interstellar probe that slows down at the target star, using a small miner to build bigger miners, which are then used to build exploration probes and copies of the interstellar spacecraft itself. I've never seen anyone do anything like this before, and it deserves more attention. Here's just a preview: The mission is called "Star Boom 2," and consists of 2 acceleration stages and 2 deceleration stages that let it reach Nova Kirbani (from Kerbal Star Systems) in just a few Kerbin decades. Deuterium and Helium-3 mined from the atmosphere of Urlum (from the Outer Planets Mod) with a larger version of the aforementioned nuclear SSTO Arriving at a small moon (captured asteroid) in another star system https://i.imgur.com/NIDqDwf.mp4 An "interplanetary explorer" manufactured within the system, designed to carry landers to other planets.
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    Started the first crewed mission to Dres - Project DIVA F (Designing Interplanetary Vehicle Architecture - Fission propulsion) >10 minute burn with the Negi Maru spaceship Dres encounter after a course correction
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    Mission 139: Project DIVA F / Negi Maru flight 01 (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) Description & objective: Designing Interplanetary Vehicle Architecture with Fission propulsion. The Negi Maru's maiden voyage to Dres and back, carrying eight astronauts, two landers, and one asteroid miner. Y34, D110 (Kerbin departure) Y35, D377 (expected Dres SOI arrival)
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    The Emerald-1 atmospheric probe arrived at Jool
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    Mission 117: Emerald-1 (Part 1, Part 2) Description & objective: A probe to analyze Jool's atmosphere and relay the data via an orbiter. Y34, D55 (Jool SOI arrival) Y34, D109 (atmospheric entry)
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    Yes, if it's symmetrically balanced. 2x physical warp seems to be safe.
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    Launched Kerbals on the Negi Star spaceplane for the first crewed mission to Dres. Lemzor Kerman installed KIS struts between the modules of the interplanetary ship Negi Maru.
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    While many think it's boring and joke about how it doesn't exist, it's definitely a stepping stone (in terms of progression) to the outer planets. Mission 138: Negi Star flight 12 Description & objective: 8 Kerbals for the Negi Maru's first mission. Extra-vehicular activity will be performed to install portable KIS struts which will reinforce the docking connections between the modules. Crew (8): Camlorf, Haitrice, Tiella, Lemzor, Billy-Bobzor, Lidzi, Agaselle, and Anelle Kerman Launch date: Y34, D100 Click below to see more: https://imgur.com/a/zDpah46
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    Launched Dres landers for the Negi Maru's first voyage
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    Mission 137: Dres Rabbit 1 + 2 Description & objective: Two crewed Dres landers to be docked inside Negi Maru's cargo bay. Mass (each): 11927 kg (x 2 = 23854 kg total) Launch vehicle: Kappa-1b Launch date: Y34, D80
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    Mission 136: WiM-7 Description & objective: A miner/tanker (very similar to WiM-6) that will utilize the resources of asteroids that have been recently discovered around Dres to refuel nuclear interplanetary spacecraft. To be docked to the Negi Maru, which will push it to Dres's orbit during its maiden voyage. Mass (at launch): 33065 kg Total mass when full: 86265 kg Launch vehicle: Kappa-1b Launch date: Y34, D60
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    Established a comsat network around Ike and scanned for ore to prepare for an Ike base Note: I'm stuck on KSP 1.1.3 (for mod compatibility reasons) so there is no CommNet functionality (and I'm not using any mods like RemoteTech).
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    Mission 129: Song Princess 10a/b/c + Wish-5 (Part 1, Part 2) Description & objective: To support the future colonization of Ike - three comsats to be placed in an ~566.95 km orbit around Ike (half the distance of a theoretical synchronous orbit, which is outside of Ike's SOI), and and a resource scanner at a ~30 km polar orbit. Y34, D38 (Duna SOI arrival for SP-10a) Y34, D40 (Duna SOI arrival for SP-10b) Y34, D42 (Duna SOI arrival for SP-10c) Y34, D43 (Duna SOI arrival for W-5) Y34, D45 (Establishment of final Ike orbits)
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    Stock + OPM is good enough for me, thank you though.
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    Mission 113: Project DIVA Extend (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) Description & objective: Returning to Kerbin from Ike, docking to the WiM-3 propellant depot Mission 135: Negi Star flight 11 Description & objective: Crew retrieval for Project DIVA Extend. Y34, D26 (Kerbin SOI arrival) Y34, D30 (docking to WiM-3) Y34, D30 (Negi Star launch) Y34, D31 (crew landing)
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    But I don't want a too-crowded Kerbol system.
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    Okay, I'm back. I was busy with a lot of homework, projects, and exams. I'm graduating from college in a week. I prefer the Outer Planets Mod, gives a sense of familiarity. __________ Mission 134: WiM-6 Description & objective: A combined Minmus miner and liquid fuel tanker powered by two nuclear engines, designed to refuel the Negi Maru. Mass (at launch): 40085 kg Total mass when full: 107385 kg Launch vehicle: Kappa-1b Launch date: Y33, D400
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    Built a new interplanetary mothership: the Negi Maru. Still needs to be filled up with fuel and reinforced with KIS struts. (KSP 1.1.3 with KerbPaint)
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    Missions 130-133: Negi Maru Description & objective: A next-generation interplanetary mothership, composed of four modules: habitation, cargo, a tank, and an engine. The components were launched without fuel (mostly), so a new mining vehicle will have to be launched. There will also have to be KIS struts installed by a Kerbal on a spacewalk. Mass (at launch): Negi Maru habitation module: 26410 kg Negi Maru cargo module: 17040 kg (42040 kg full) Negi Maru tank module: 17800 kg (117800 kg full) Negi Maru propulsion module: 29220 kg (partial, 39220 kg full) Total mass when full: 225470 kg Launch vehicle: Kappa-1b (36 tonnes to LKO, 3 mainsails on first stage, 1 mainsail on second stage) Launch dates: Y33, D280 (Negi Maru habitation module) Y33, D310 (Negi Maru cargo module) Y33, D339 (Negi Maru tank module) Y33, D370 (Negi Maru propulsion module)
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    I wanted to do the Jool-5 challenge as part of my ongoing sandbox space program thread, the problem is that it's 1.1.3 due to config compatibility issues with KerbPaint. I wish older versions of KSP were still accepted.
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    Mission 129: Song Princess 10a/b/c + Wish-5 (Part 1, Part 2) Description & objective: A series of comsats and a resource scanner for the future colonization of Ike. (The comsats are smaller than previous Song Princess satellites as those were also supposed to test large-scale spacecraft buses and handle high communications traffic in the Kerbol system.) Mass: 3867 kg (x3 SP-10), 4197 kg (W-5), 15798 kg (total) Launch vehicle: Kappa-1a Y33, D248 (Launch) Y34, D38 (Expected Duna SOI arrival for SP-10a) Y34, D40 (Expected Duna SOI arrival for SP-10b) Y34, D42 (Expected Duna SOI arrival for SP-10c) Y34, D43 (Expected Duna SOI arrival for W-5)
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    No, that's its first flight. Really, I spray painted the nose cone, and the paint kept chipping off when I tried to carry it around in my backpack. And I don't have much experience with epoxy so the epoxy fillets on the fins were done sloppily (I had to sandpaper the paint off and reapply the epoxy because there wasn't enough when the other club members came to check it).
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    (Built with the assistance of the UAH Space Hardware Club)
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    So much for having multiple installs of the game? Or keeping old versions around to finish playing a career, or to test differences between versions, or just for play/challenge purposes? Or copying the game out of the Steam folder into another place to ensure it doesn't get messed up by unexpected updates? Or even something as simple as sharing a craft file or a savegame, since that too would be 'making a copy of part of the software'. This was all explicitly allowed up to now. Apparently that was part of the EULA before the Take-Two acquisition.
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    Left Ike (on my second crewed expedition to the Duna system)
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