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I love it! What's the 2nd song, after the march of the air forces? @Beale: I'll upload some pictures soon to show what I meant. EDIT:

May I kindly request a Libra RCS unit which has the same "plate" size on each end? Currently I have to use a half scale one for an advanced Vostok version... and it looks rather ugly with a kontakt-probe on top, and an oversized tavio LES on top of the kontakt docking system.

And then you could drop the 1st part on the next save-breaking patch.

You do know you can fix that in the part.cfg? Beale was so kind to provide you with the correct angle, so all you have to do is change: MODEL { model=OLDD/N-1/NK-43 position = 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 scale = 0.544, 0.544, 0.544 rotation = 0, 0, 0 } to: MODEL { model=OLDD/N-1/NK-43 position = 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 scale = 0.544, 0.544, 0.544 rotation = 45, 0, 0 } or MODEL { model=OLDD/N-1/NK-43 position = 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 scale = 0.544, 0.544, 0.544 rotation = 0, 0, 45 } Not quiet sure. Or even -45. Anyway, you can get that fixed easily.

Wouldn't it need a seperate heatshield then?

How about a monoprop engine? Less oomf is needed if you're firing monoprop.

The N-I is from Dennytx. I had to fix the nodes (essentially why I PM'ed you... turns out I missed the scaleFactor) to get the normal N-I working, however I don't think the fairings work. Then I made it 47% size (as your Proton is 48%, and your R-VII is 46% I went with the middleground), and gave it RL stats for RSS. Now I need to check if it will work full-size without collapsing (and I'll make the 1st stage N-IM massive... just to be sure) so that FAR won't interfer and lower dV requirements (currently 9100-9300m/s instead of 9700m/s)... And then I'll try out part welder for Block R,S,Sr and the N-IM... and create a .cfg file for the 1962 ICBM version... And I just finished the N-IIIs and N-IIs! Here are the 2 N-IIs... had to rewrite the heatshield .cfg to keep the interstage fairing. N-II can lift around 23 tons into a 51.6* 220x220 orbit. N-IIF does the same with around 31 ton. Here are the N-IIIs. Should be very efficient as R-VII replacements => 1 engine less, no verniers, no radial separation => no trouble! The N-III can lift the Vostok into a 220x220 51.6* orbit. In fact, it can lift up to 5,8-6 tons! So even the Vostok could be lifted up! The N-IIIF can lift up to 8,8-9 tons into orbit. So Soyuz and LOK are possible payloads. I guess if I add a Block D with an 11D53F engine it should be able to lift even more... maybe something TKS-like? Also regarding Salyut mass, Niemand303, why not make the IIIrd stage lighter... or the decoupler?

Did anyone say N-I? Turns out with a bit of .cfg tinkering you can make a N-IF out of a N-I. And then you can make N-III(F)s and N-II(F)s... Interestingly enough, they fly really well in RSS. Only used up something like 40 units of monoprop during ascent.

Heh I don't even know how to make a comparison of 2 rockets, but these shots are absolutely amazing!

I'm sorry! I had that weird brainfart that the core was inserted between the radials, ofcourse the radials were built around the core. Rep added. And thanks for the videos/songs!

Great video! The ascent was performed extremly well! I'm glad you didn't allow MJ to restart Block D again (R-VII core). I would, however, suggest using different music on launch (the Soviet anthem might be a bit too celebratory for the launch itself, might be better suited for 3rd stage seperation, while Yuri Karkarin has a look at his blue planet), the march of the rocket forces would be better, IMO (there are 2 of them actually... ) or even V put ( ). Belaya Armiya, Cherniy Baron ( / / ) and Svyaschennaya voyna ( ) would work aswell, but they're tied to the Russian Civil War and the 2nd WW...

"Faeton-2/2T - - - - KB Mashinostroenia 1990s project of Russian-produced Zenit with 2-6 solid-fuel strap-ons." Can't find the thread tho...

Those would be laterals attached onto the Zenit... from 2 to 6(?) pieces I guess... However info seems somewhat scarce. Russianspaceweb has a sentence about it, and there might be a 2 page forum thread on the spaceflight (NASA? can't remember the name) forums about it.

Does that mean that the Energia won't be stock-a-like? There's already one of that kind in the works I think... Well, anyway, did you know the Zenit boosters of the Energia were proposed to be upgraded with solid laterals in the '90s?

You sound like you're trying to apologize for not turning out a part every day. That is somewhat ridiculous, don't you agree?

I would presume it's something about the fairings. EDIT:Wait, there aren't any. So what's the matter?

Sorry for the unrelated post, but could you delete some PMs Dragon?

Love it. (10char)

Is it possible to use FAR and RSS with non-procedural fairings? I don't know how else to emulate the giant hole in one part of the Vostok/Voskhod fairings from the real space probes pack. Or the Syouz style LES system. Or proper payload bases for Sputniks I-III

And the rest of stuff is from the '60s and '70s... But ofcourse your right. Again, I'm not even proposing this. It's waaay to much work. It's just wishful thinking.

I don't know... the Soyuz is just 1m in diameter, so around 46 to 48% real life diameter. 2m would work much better, especially as the Salyut is 2m. And yes, the 1965 variant is really difficult to find... if you interpret it together with the already cancelled N-II and N-III (N-II is N-I minus 1st stage, N-III is N-I minus 1st and 2nd stage + Vostok/Voskhod/Soyuz)... you get the following, differing N-I options: N-I 1964 - the approved version which got built in the end N-I 1962 - a prototype, ICBM-like version, looks the same *except* it hasn't got the 6 central engines in the 1st stage. 550 tons less propellant in 1st stage N-IF 1965 - as per specs it has a 6m longer 2nd and 4m longer 3rd stage (keep in mind the "4th" and "5th" stage were actually not stages of the LV, but part of the L3 landing complex, that's why until 1969-1972 no changes were made with these...), so it *probably* uses engines with more thrust, which translates to higher chamber pressure (atleast because the 1965 N-IM study proposed higher chamber pressure for the giant 1st stage) - the higher chamber pressure also means somewhat improved efficiency N-IM 1965 - 1st stage changed from the usual conic one to a 3-part cylinder+conic_interstage, now a full 50m long! The 2nd and 3rd stages would, again, retain the original look and engine numbers, but would again be lengthened, compared to the 1964 version, they would be 10/8 meters longer for the 2nd/3rd stage, and again chamber pressure would be increased => more thrust, same looking engines N-IMV-III - would utilize a hydrolox 3rd stage, would use 6 engines looking similiar to the Block D main engine, from what I found. Stage would be cylindrical N-IMV-II-III - would use hydrolox on 2nd and 3rd stage, funnily astronautix says 4 engines would be used, which would mean that the 2nd stage has a TWR of 0.9, so it's more likely to be 8 engines. They even made some test firings of NK-15V/NK-43s with hydrogen... so I presume the engines would stay the same Ofcourse there's a billion subversions which you could make with these parts. All in all that's 6 fuel tanks from scratch, 4 stretched fuel tanks (I wonder if this could work by changing only one parameter out of the 3 scale parameters in the .cfg file...), and 5(?) engine plates (30 - 24 - 8 - 6 - 4), together with 4 different kinds of engines - NK-15 - NK-15V - RD-57 - NK-19. Now, if one would like hardcore realism, one might make atmospheric NK-19 and RD-57 versions (different engine bell, same plumbing...), and, without number crunching, I'd guess the engine numbers for different N-II and N-III variants would need to be changed - so everything from 2 to 4 additional engine plates. Quite an undertaking! (Which no one will ever pursue because of it's giant size, lack of pictures and sources... etc.) If you're interested in reading up some more, here are some links: http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/n11962.htm http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/n11964.htm http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/nif1965.htm http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/nim1965.htm http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/nimiiiii.htm http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/nimviii.htm

No worries. The Energia can make a good modular lifter too. However, you've been looking at the 1969 N-IM. I was talking about the 1965 N-IM, N-IFs. These are essentially N-Is with either stretched or cylindrical fuel tanks. (This isn't a "push" to make you do the N-Is, don't get me wrong)

Cool idea as in - "expand the idea, give me pictures and data", or cool idea as in - "maybe sometime 2050?" (Just so I don't go through all the trouble of a comprehensive write-up for nothing)

Imagine yourself a modular N series! From the "tiny" N-III using N-I Blocks V and G + Vostok or Voskhod upper stage, all the way to the hydrogen fueled N-IM-V-II-V-III monster rocket!

Apropos configured Soyuz, how does one configure an engine to use it with realism overhaul? This: @MODEL { @scale = 2.607462, 1.864719, 2.607462 } and the thrust curve (so just about 70% of each .cfg ) is what I don't understand... EDIT: Also, if you divide the fuel mass (wet-dry) of a kerosene tank by 1.02, and use 1.02 as kerosene density in the game, what would be the difference compared to 0.82 and 0.82 in the config, performance wise?