Blaylock1988

Spaceflight now shows that three of the five Falcon 9 1.1 launches this year have been delayed, but most are like a 1 month delay, this is often caused from a delay in the satellite manufacturing process. No big deal considering the delays that I am seeing with our GPS Block III satellites that im working on.

This is awesome, I would love to use your parts in conjunction with KASPAR and Orbital Construction! Maybe you can even incorporate Interplanetary Launchpads somehow

Lag, I can't help you with, but for docking, try this:

I think I will stick with the non-gravity versions. Gravity will cause serious problems trying to dock with my asteroid-station.

yessssssssssssssssssss!

That new folding launchpad looks great. I will start using this mod once you release that.

Yeah that one is from April, the latest one flew 1066 feet.

Massive potential!

I am sad.

Is there a video yet? I can't find one.

What are those two long docking-port-node-strut-things you have connected to the center hub? I like them.

Ok, I'll make note of that. The tour doesn't look like it will work out today, probably end of this week or next week. My "in" is my friend's roomate, this is the SpaceX employee that edited and uploaded the Ring of Fire grasshopper video.

mirror!!!!!!!!!!!

I may be able to get a tour of SpaceX tomorrow, any questions I should ask for you while I am there?

An in-line hydroponics would be great! Are yours going to be inflatable or static?

Looks much more like a generator. Some food for thought: ZobrAA is correct. A spacecraft's only method for dispelling heat in space is by radiation (visual light and IR mostly). This requires very large surface areas facing away from the spacecraft made from a metal and paint with a very high emissivity, which usually means silver or white surface. For example, WGS satellites have MASSIVE heatsinks for removing heat (big white squares on the sides): The fins on your generator are more suited for convection (like an air-cooled motorcycle engine) and would be radiating heat back onto one-another. Now if adding large square sheets to your generator sounds unappealing, another possibility (and something I would prefer) is to make aesthetic heat syncs (retextured plates that are white and shiny) that can be mounted radially. That way we can add heatsinks to make it look customized, and even add them to other parts of the spacecraft. Animated unfolding heatsinks sounds awesome too

I just discovered that my huge drop in performance is actually caused by the huge number of Kerbals I have in my space station. I noticed when I undock a part that can't carry any crew, it runs perfectly smooth. I think I have 24 Kerbals in space, So I will bring down over half of them and report back. UPDATE: I did in fact have 24 Kerbals in my station. I removed 18 of them and my performance has increased significantly. I am surprised that Kerbals take up so many computer resources.

This assumption is actually incorrect. Large tanks like these are long cylinders with rounded ends. Example, the two segments you see in Delta IV rockets, the orange is actual tank shell (and I have also looked inside the Delta IV tank in person). Falcon 9 LH2 Tank: Another example is the Shuttle external tank: For cryogenic rocket fuel (LOX and LH2, which is also what we see in KSP) the Hydrogen is in the larger tank.

The specifics to their satellites are their bread and butter. Everything they do is above secret, which makes them exempt from FOIA. The only sort of stuff I would guess they may release is really old information, or stuff regarding policies and practices. I would like to work for them, but its like working in a windowless dungeon all day with no connection to the outside world except for cable news. Aside: I got to see both TDRSS-K satellites first hand at Boeing. One was wrapped up for launch, and the other had its antennas unfolded. They're very large, and those 2 dishes are like 20 feet in diameter each!

I just spent about 20 minutes looking for this thread, finally found that it was moved lol. I am glad that you guys liked the video! I am going to try to do something like what Mihara mentioned, but I want to figure out of there is a way to orient it in a way with mechjeb to make a missile cancel out its relative velocity to a target in all directions except for forward. This would enable highly accurate tracking fire-and-forget missiles, instead of dumbfire rockets. Something I would love to see is a programmable computer similar to Expression 2 from HL2 Garry's mod (uses code similar to C+). You can program the chip with mechjeb functions and conditions and timing with variable inputs so that it will execute the code once activated. This would allow automatic orbital construction, automatic refuelling, executing multiple operations on multiple ships at the same time (or preprogrammed times), and of course, very smart missiles/weapons.

Oh WOW! I didn't know someone else had tried this, and with 3 ships! I need to step up my game. I just subscribed btw.

What did you use to move the tanks around into position? just RCS?

No need to apologize! I kinda want to try another video using this method, but for landing! Bring 2 ships down from orbit and land next to each other at KSC...oh man that sounds difficult! Maybe I will try that on Thursday...

Ah. The reason why I tried this was purely to see if it could even be done. Rendezvous and docking 100% manually is no problem for me personally. I am terrible at figuring out the phase angle to launch though, so I always bring a couple hundred extra dV for hohmann transfers for rendezvous, and a little RCS for proximity operations. When I mentioned easier rendezvous to my station, I meant that I can rendezvous them in one trip instead of doing both separately. The maneuver node system is probably the single most useful tool for rendezvous. I remember back before they added it, It took me forever to do a rendezvous, but that was also before official docking nodes were added too. lol!

I am interested, what was it about this thread that led you to that conclusion?