CatastrophicFailure

Interesting. Quick google turned up this, it is not a heavy bird by any measure, especially only to MEO, less than 4 tonnes. Soooooo... I wonder if they’re gonna do a FH type profile, with the upper stage delivering the sat directly into its final orbit, not just a transfer?

Really heavy, as it’s a GPS sat that’s only going to medium orbit, not GTO. Surprising that it’s expendable (on a new booster, no less!), but understandable after reading that in the article. It’s a USAF payload, and the Falcon Heavy isn’t yet certified for those yet (that’s part of what the scheduled STP-2 launch will do). Gummint bird, and the FH isn’t certified to fly them yet.

I chew thoroughly.

It’s an acquired taste. Cream and sugar at your friends. Also, local coffee house, not the industrial grade slag that comes from a big dispenser. Unless you really need to stay up, that is. You’ll know you’ve reached coffee nirvana when you just eat the roasted beans by the handfull with a swish of water.

Metaphor is on point. Well if you haven’t figured it out in the next like 12 hours or so, I’ll take a look on my install and let you know. Someone else might chime in before then, too.

I’m not at home now, so I can’t talk you through it, but you can disable automatic updates in Steam. You can also copy your entire game folder and move it elsewhere to really protect it. I’ve got multiple KSP folders archived going all the way back to .19, but I bought the game outright as well. Poke around in the Steam settings for KSP, you May find it. I’ve had good luck before using a procedural fairing pointing down on top the capsule, shielding it. Used to be able to attach fins to the fairing sections but dunno anymore. I had a fully working Soyuz abort system analogue at one point.

If you’ve got the game on Steam, there’s an option in there to turn off automatic updates. Usually a wise choice with modded installs, since an unwanted upgrade can booger everything up.

Sounds like it’s time to make some upgrades to your abort system, especially if you’ll be carrying that capsule design forward. Fins and a shroud would likely help.

I’m not calling this thread dead yet. I was just getting to the interesting bit I’ve been building to when I got sidetracked into a... thing. The kind of thing we do not speak of. Said thing may be winding down for a while soon, so hopefully if Life™️ cooperates I can jumpstart this again.

I was just watching Scott Manley’s breakdown of the incident, the way that whole mechanism works is really incredible, it seems extremely Kerbal and yet this is the first time it’s ever failed. The last I heard, they were considering an EVA to examine it from the outside, but that was before the launch incident. As that’s the Soyuz everyone’s worried about keeping out past it’s curfew, it’s unlikely at this point they’ll be able to examine it further before its time to go.

Art imitates life...

You’re forgetting the effect of wind on that great big bottom-heavy sail of a booster.

Moho is cursed. Cuuuuuuursed! Abandon all hope, ye who enter there! If you go into your settings, you can increase the number of predicted future orbits (look for a thing that mentions “conics”), and see where that encounter will spit you out. A pass by Ike can save you a ton of dV, or it might fling you directly into Duna or out of the system completely.

Holidays every 5-6 weeks? Man, when I was in school we got doodly squat from September to December.

I know where they can get a good deal on one, low miles, minor cosmetic damage... More stable, but harder to hit. Something the size of a building that weighs nearly nothing (relatively speaking) has got to be hard to translate sideways... From everything I’ve ever heard, RocketLab has no plans for reusabilty, it’s kinda the opposite of their business model (mass production of ‘little dumb boosters’).

Thats the solution! Skip the trouble-prone space elevator and go straight to a space escalator!

"Hold my glass..."

I'm still skeptical that they're gonna land a booster that big on a moving(!!!) ship.

They're not gonna need a bigger boat...

In... October?

Never say die.

No no, you can play something happy, tho I guess those organs do gravitate to the somber.

Now you’re catching on...

Make sure you play it outside, that’s gotta sound eerie as heck in the thin air. might need to upgrade the bellows first...

...but you haven't heard Bezos's plan yet...