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In this case, they were disposed of, but maybe later they could be reused to form a space station. It would just have narrow docking ports (like Russian space stations), so you wouldn't have something like the US/European/Japanese side of the ISS in our universe, with wide berthing ports, so any experiment or equipment racks would have to be smaller (interchangeable) or pre-installed (non-interchangeable). Also, as more modules are added to the station, it becomes more crucial for resupply ships to carry any waste/garbage away (this was a big problem with the Russian Mir station and Soyuz/Progress, but a Saki-derived uncrewed resupply ship could have more room). In fact, there's a concept image for the Fuji spacecraft that shows a station made out of Expansion Modules in the upper left corner. I don't know if I will make a station as big as that (due to frame rate issues), but there are plans to have a Saki-derived space station over the next decade.

1983 - Akatsuki-3 Venus orbiter/lander 1984 - Saki-05 crewed spacecraft - standard system configuration

[HASDA] 1984-10-19 - Saki-05 in the "standard system" configuration (video)

Phase 3 - 14 1984-10-19 - Saki-05 launched on an M-2-24 rocket, with Hitomi Kuriyama, Momoka Oda, and Mitsuharu Haneda. This was the first use of the "standard system" configuration, which added a disposable Expansion Module and Propulsion Module to the relatively cramped Core Module, and had a total mass of approximately 11 tonnes. The Expansion Module added more living space (which didn't need to be protected for re-entry, thus saving mass) as well as a toilet, and enough food, water, and oxygen for crews to last a few weeks in space. The Propulsion Module was designed for almost 400 m/s of maneuvers in Low Earth Orbit, powered by a 13.9 kN hypergolic engine. The Core and Propulsion Modules launched on top of the Expansion Module, to reduce the mass of the emergency launch escape system. Once in orbit, the Core and Propulsion Modules detached, rotated, and docked with the Expansion Module, similarly to the transposition, docking, and extraction sequence of the Apollo missions. Afterwards, Saki-05 demonstrated its propulsive capabilities by raising its orbit from 200 km to 310 km, waiting two days, then going to an apogee of over 480 km. The mission would ultimately last 7 days before de-orbit, separation, re-entry, and splashdown of the Core Module. The Soviet space program noticed that the 11-tonne Saki standard system was larger and offered more living space than their 7-tonne Soyuz. Development of the Buran spaceplane and Energia super-heavy booster were thus accelerated to match the capabilities of the US Space Shuttle program.

I'd rather have no separate parties involved for now. Also, I still have to fill in the gap between how HASDA is in the 1980s and how it is today.

Actually, I'm not really sure about that. I'm worried about other people misrepresenting this (semi-serious) worldbuilding project. Some people see "a Miku-themed Japan-like country" and think it's nothing else but a joke or a meme, but I wanted it to be more than that.

(HASDA) 1984-07-16 - Mokume performs Jupiter orbit insertion

Phase 3 - 13 1984-07-16 - Mokume arrived at Jupiter, performing a 600 m/s orbital insertion burn 138000 km away, and readying itself for long-term observations of the planet's atmosphere (the ammonia cloud tops resembling a wood grain), magnetic field, and many moons. The initial orbit was highly eccentric and approximately six months long. A inclination change maneuver would be performed at the highest point of said orbit (on 1984-10-14) to set up a rendezvous with Ganymede, the largest moon in the Solar System, on 1985-01-09. A gravitational assist from Ganymede would slow down the spacecraft relative to Jupiter, halving the orbital period to about 3 months. HASDA having a clear and undisputed first in planetary exploration pressured NASA to split the Galileo mission in two, launching an orbiter (shrunk down from the original plans) and an atmospheric entry probe in February and March of 1984, respectively.

@Well I just realized today that my Realism Overhaul / ROSolar config for the Fuji solar panels don't actually function properly. When I used the "debug suncatching" button, I found out that the suncatcher (red vector) is pointing in the opposite direction as to where the panel is pointing (green vector) and tracking the Sun (yellow vector), therefore the solar panels aren't getting any light as they should. The ROSolar modeldata .cfg looks like this: https://pastebin.com/ekab6Q9R I used your "Solar3" transform in your mesh as the secondaryTransformName. Is there a transform that points in the opposite direction?

1984-03-19 (Hatsunia local time) - Usagi-13 lunar rover at Sinus Medii

Phase 3 - 12 1984-03-15 - Usagi-13, Hatsunia's first lunar rover, launched on an M-2 30 rocket. The ~300 kg rover was equipped with similar instruments to previous Usagi landers, but with a more advanced camera, and on a six-wheeled vehicle with the same solar panels. It was carried to the surface by a lander (total mass of 3 tonnes) with folding ramps (Infernal Robotics mod) and seven engines, with a flat and wide shape to reduce the slope of the deployed ramps. Landing occurred in 1984-03-19 (local time) in Sinus Medii, near the sites where Surveyor 4 crashed and Surveyor 6 landed, and where Earth can be seen directly overhead from the Moon's tidal lock. Final descent used two out of seven engines. The rover drove for over 4 kilometers to different sites of interest, taking images and analyzing lunar soil composition.

Jeb himself landed on Tylo, didn't have enough fuel to make it back to orbit, so used his jetpack to finish the last few m/s.

1983-10-30 - Akatsuki-3 enters orbit and lands on Venus (video)

(Sorry for the wait, I took a break to play other games like Project Wingman and the Halo MCC, and to take care of other stuff as well. I was thinking of waiting to get a new PC since it's sluggish when making videos, and I have to go through this lengthy process to have an okay framerate, but I decided to upgrade my PC's RAM instead as a stopgap measure since these mods use a lot of it.) Phase 3 - 11 1983-01-28 - Saki-04, the final flight of the Saki minimum system (before the launch of the standard system next year), with Haruyoshi Yasukawa, Kikuo Kanezawa, and Motoko Katagami. 1983-06-07 - Akatsuki-3 (PLANET-J) was launched by a M-2 32 rocket to orbit Venus and deploy a lander, similar to the Soviet Union's Venera program. It also had a similar mass and engine configuration to the MELODI Mars probe. On 1983-10-30, almost five months later, the spacecraft entered an inclined retrograde elliptical orbit around Venus (500 km x 20000 km), such that the periapsis (low point) was on the day side. At the apoapsis (high point) of the orbit, the spacecraft performed a de-orbit maneuver to lower the periapsis to 100 km before releasing the aeroshell containing the lander. Afterwards, the orbiter raised its periapsis to 3000 km to be able to act as a relay with line-of-sight communications with Earth as the lander descended. Because of Venus's thick atmosphere, a more sturdy heat shield was needed to withstand entry. About 70 km above the surface, the lander was released from the aeroshell and fell at about 100 m/s through the increasingly thick atmosphere. Parachutes, made of kevlar to withstand the heat, deployed a few kilometers above the surface before the lander touched down in Themis Regio at around 4 m/s. The lander was spherical to reduce structural weak points in a place with high pressure differentials, and was surrounded by smaller spherical landing supports. It took images and samples of the volcanic regolith, and recorded the sounds of the wind as well. After approximately an hour, the lander succumbed to the harsh pressure, heat, and corrosion of the Venusian atmosphere [not simulated in KSP].

The very first introduction by HarvesteR on Orbiter-Forum in 2011

My long term sandbox pseudo-career KASDA (2013-2020) started before career mode was even a thing, so I'll probably play career in KSP 2.

When I try to make a video in Real Solar System + Environmental Visual Enhancements + Scatterer + TUFX, I have to play at a sluggish framerate and manually speed up each recorded clip using this technique, which takes some time. My CPU is an i5-6500, and my graphics card is an RX 480 (I built this PC in 2016). Are there any of you who don't have to do that, and if so, what CPU and graphics card are you using?

I played DSP (my first factory game) for a while in February, and while I love the overall concept, I went back to KSP as that game really needs blueprints to prevent tedium when the production chains become really complex. I'll also wait for further quality-of-life improvements. Right now, I am also taking a break from KSP by playing Project Wingman and the Halo Master Chief Collection, because I don't want to get burned out either.

1982-10-05 - MELODI (Mars Exploration with Lander-Orbiter Data Interactions) lands on Mars

1982-09-17 - MELODI (Mars Exploration with Lander-Orbiter Data Interactions) enters Mars orbit, and lands on 1982-10-05. (video)

Phase 3 - 10 1982-04-26 - An M-2-20 rocket launched Saki-03 with Tomohiro Sasaki, Kosuke Kokubun, and Yayoi Mimura. The latter two were new astronauts. 1982-08-07 - Usagi-12 was launched by an M-1B rocket to the bright lunar crater of Copernicus, which is thought to have formed relatively recently (800 million years ago) compared to the 4-billion-year age of the Moon. 1982-09-17 - MELODI (Mars Exploration with Lander-Orbiter Data Interactions) performed an insertion burn to enter an elliptical polar orbit (approximately 300 km x 30000 km) around Mars. The orbiter observed Mars for over two weeks before making a small de-orbit maneuver on 1982-10-05, releasing the lander in its aeroshell, then returning back to orbit. The lander itself entered the atmosphere of Mars and was slowed down by the 4-meter-wide shield without excessive heating. At a speed of about 300 m/s, the aeroshell and lander separated from the heat shield using small retrorockets (slightly imbalanced to prevent the shield from coming back and colliding). Parachutes deployed 12 to 6 km above the surface, but it was still traveling at about 50 m/s. After the landing legs (which had triple symmetry like the Viking landers) were deployed, the lander dropped from its aeroshell to peform a soft propulsive landing. The landing site was in Amazonis Planitia, a flat region northwest of Olympus Mons that formed with volcanic activity about 100 million years ago. The camera took high-quality images of the surface, while a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer and a sample digging apparatus measured the composition of the Martian regolith, mostly made of silicon, oxygen, and iron. No organic compounds were detected. Data was relayed to the orbiter, which could transmit back to Earth using its larger antenna.

1981-11-29 - Launch of MELODI (Mars Exploration with Lander-Orbiter Data Interactions) 1982-01-04 - Launch of the "Mokume" Jupiter orbiter

Phase 3 - 09 1981-11-29 - An M-2-32 rocket launched the MELODI (Mars Exploration with Lander-Orbiter Data Interactions, a.k.a. PLANET-H) spacecraft. Similar to the Viking spacecraft, the vehicle consisted of a orbiter with solar panels and a lander component powered by RTGs. After entering an elliptical Mars orbit in September 1982, MELODI would observe potential landing sites and wait for the right conditions, then release the lander which would enter Mars's atmosphere in a protective aeroshell (similar to the fairing for the Saki crewed spacecraft) which would deploy parachutes and be jettisoned before a propulsive landing. 1982-01-04 - The Jupiter orbiter "Mokume" (PLANET-I) was launched by an M-2-34 rocket. Its name meant "wood grain" in reference to Jupiter's Hatsunese name, Mokusei (木星 or "wood star," another one of the Chinese five elements), and the fact that Jupiter's swirling clouds as observed by the Watarimono probes coincidentally resembled a wood grain. Its literal meaning of "wood eye" (木目) also represented the probe's mission to observe Jupiter and its moons. Unlike the Galileo spacecraft which NASA would launch later, Mokume did not carry an atmospheric probe and was thus lighter, being able to launch directly to Jupiter using the M-2 rocket and its Hakuba hydrolox upper stage. Mokume would enter Jupiter orbit in July 1984. In some aspects, Hatsunia was starting to pull ahead in the space race.

https://www.orbiter-forum.com/threads/the-kerbal-space-program-version-1-2-x.21020/ So on this 10th anniversary, I wanted to show where it all started (publicly). I actually started with Orbiter before getting KSP in 2013 (because I needed a better computer and was busy with school at the time). And I still need a better computer to handle KSP with Real Solar System/Realism Overhaul and a bunch of visual enhancement mods at a decent framerate. HarvesteR:

1981-05-29 - Watarimono-2 Jupiter flyby (to Uranus and Neptune) 1981-05-30 - Watarimono Saturn flyby Mimas flyby (sorry, no Death Star crater)