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I've got to say, the latest developments here have me on the very verge of moving to a semi-recent KSP build! But remember, Comrade Belykhlebovich, we always have an eye on you.

@curtquarquesso What about the big 2.5m(3.75m?) almaz engine? You know, with the sharp taper and Soyuz-Service-Module-like engine?

As a vital component of the Sodruzhetstvo II mission was a bit past schedule, we decided to use the new methalox 1st stage of the N-IIU for something that was on the shelves for quite a while... Zvezda 1! [imgur]aCHa8[/imgur] EDIT:Weee, page 1000!

What a treat, 2 'tares updates in a single day... Seid ihr etwa aufeinander abgestimmt?

@Beale,I was here all the time, I just didn't have anything to post, really. You on the other hand... should be expelled to some island to take some rest... Seriously, you might be spending a bit too much time around here. (Just kidding, 24/7 Beale!!!) @Niemand, yeah this is RSS with a *lot* of time and effort spent into designing realistic methane/methalox NTR/LANTR stages for the Soviets... I've spent a good couple o' pages of paper and RPA tests to get the YaRD-AF just right (I think that the LANTR version is 25+-s accurate, which is, IMO, a neat accomplishment I've built a 3rd stage methalox LANTR in fact with those fancy r/squareroot(2) bulges for maximum realism, proper ratio of oxidizer to fuel volumes... and now I can finnaly launch the same mass into orbit the Americans could with the Saturn V... and 20 tons more It isn't RO-ified, mostly because life support of a rather big space-station for 2 people isn't exactly challenging, methane is barely cryogenic and won't boil-off in 4 days in any significant amount (and the stage had 300m/s extra, for a total of... 4700-800m/s, so there was plenty of reserve left, anyway)... The loss in lifting capacity for a big booster like the N-I due to lower thrust at liftoff is trivial, too, and again, I had 300m/s to play with...

So, as Beale is less active than usual (how dare he?! I want 24/7 coverage of my unintelligent posts by you Beale, 24/7!) it's time... TO CLOG THE THREAD UP WITH MISSION REPORTS! I present you, Zarya-I! If anyone cares, this was done with 0.90, with some Voskhod parts from... either raidernick or MrTheBull, OLDD, a heavily modified Kosmos RD-0440, procedural parts, and most importantly... Tantares.

Well, that might actually work... I'd vote for a big-ass hydrolox stage, however.

Now all we need to figure out is how to launch a 5m diameter capsule on top of a 3.75m N-I, eh Beale?

Sounds very interesting! Have you considered doing, in the future, some heavy-duty space-station parts? Something nice and gigantic to put on the N-I?

Beale, with due respect... are they supposed to be lying, heads to the center, in a radial formation? Because it doesn't look quite tall enough for them to sit...

Is the Morgenrot available in gray aswell? PS:Hut ab!

LEK would be a cool choice IMO... Then again, if Beale decides to make a big brick with a wooden door in the middle and call it a lander, it's still going to be beautiful. PS:I love it that you made your textures available for PP!

Then I must be missing something... If the structural fraction of LH2/LOX is 6,4%, once we calculate phi from density and mass ratios, we should get a dry density of 0,0234t/m^3, and a wet density of 0,36734t/m^3. If V-II is a cylinder, 10m in diameter (so 5m radius) and 50m high, it's volume should be 5^2*pi*50, thus 1250pi m^3, roughly 3930m^3. A wet weight of 800t would mean that the density is 0,2035. Now, if we assume that the actual tank isn't a full 50m, but only around 40, that's still only 0,2544... Same for V-III... I must be missing something obvious here...

Thanks for the quick and useful reply! If I can, I'll give some rep to you now. But now I have another question... These dimensions aren't all that feasible then, right? Or did they plan on compressing the hydrogen and oxygen...?

Not being all that keen on downloading a big mod like this... And more importantly, installing it, I've got a quick question which you hopefully might be able to answer! Using the "default" fuel tank, what would be the dry and wet tank density of a 2.5 LOX/RP mixture, for LH2 only and LOX only? An answer would be greatly appreciated!

God are the station screenies gorgeous! God! Incredible work, good sir!

Sign me in aswell. Great mission!

Good God! Want! Want! Gimme plox! PLOX! Now that I've vented my hype: Truly good-looking, I'd take it right now, but I guess you're still trying to add some greeble?

IMO, the point of such a small NTR is that using a cluster of these nets you more thrust than a single 1.25 NTR.

Is it a refuelling depot or just a really big station? Can't really figure out what the thingies on the bottom are.

Quick question... if I ever get around to updating to 1.0, update Tantares and finnaly give it the proper RSS masses, would you mind collaborating in... TMK matters?

N-IMV-II,-III all the way... that is, until 1978. Then 7 V-II modules as the 1st stage, 1 as the 2nd, and a V-III as the 3rd stage. 450 tons to orbit.

Me likey. Subbed.

Well, you'd expect a vehicle which has to survive like 2000C temperature change, combined with 2000m/s velocity change, to be difficult to fly Else it probably wouldn't be able to cover the speed range.

I was thinking about finnaly upgrading from 0.9... so does anyone know if the Kliper is FAR-compatible in the newest patch?