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Is there a guide to using the mod? I have OPM installed and some random clicking has given me a long list of bodies about which I know 0% e.g. Nissee and a few about which I know 10% e.g. Neidon. I have a TB-75M telescope in a high orbit and I have completed the search the skies mission twice. What is the designed flow for discovering a new object and then learning enough about it to send probes there?

Some sort of engine a bit like a turbofan jet with injected oxidiser would probably be more efficient in an atmosphere than just using your fuel and oxidiser in a rocket engine. Heavier though. If you are using Hydrogen or Methane and Oxygen you are going to be be better off using a fuel cell to generate electricity. Internal combustion engines tend to be pretty inefficient by comparison.

But what about the space squirrels?

It looks really weird the way the camera turns the sky black as the engine ignites. Makes it seem like there was a really sudden solar eclipse.

For midcourse correction you would just cancel the spin, wind the cable in and reconnect the halves, perform the burn and then spin up again. If you use a 1000m cable that the two halves have a relative velocity of 100m/s, it should be perfectly possible for the two parts to use their OMS to rendevous, hook up again and resume tumbling.

Are there explicit missions in breaking ground to test the passive seismometer by crashing probes? If so does anyone know the prerequisites?

I just read an article quoting an Apollo communications specialist saying that soviet subs were attempting to interfere with the communications with the Apollo spacecraft https://www.clarionledger.com/story/magnolia/2018/07/20/russia-and-nasa-soviets-tried-mess-up-moon-landing-apollo-11/803975002/ It seems pretty surprising, if anything had gone wrong it would have been far to easy to point the finger for a pretty significant PR victory. Has anyone ever heard anything like this before and are there any more official sources?

The problem with your first point is we aren't anywhere close to having propulsion methods that could produce any significant acceleration for any significant time. The best current engines with a mass ration of 95% could sustain 1g for about 13 minutes before running out of fuel. A NTR with ISP 800 could sustain nearly half an hour. Whereas there are centrifugal designs we could build tomorrow.

The grabbing point doesn't have to be near the axis of rotation. If you could line the COM of the grabbing spacecraft up with the LM's axis and rotate at the same rate then the LM will appear to be stationary and you can grab it wherever it provides a handhold.

The latest release was compiled against 1.6 but I'd be amazed if it didn't work fine with 1.7 I'm not playing KSP at the moment so I'm not going to implement anything new myself. If you are a modder and you create something new I might consider including it.

The decompression from removing your helmet is going to cause some expansion injuries which would probably be pretty painful. However if you suit is out of O2 then the level of oxygen is just going to drop, if it is still able to remove the CO2 then you are just going to fall asleep. People diving on rebreathers sometimes die because they failed to turn their oxygen on. If they had noticed it would have been the work of a second to turn the oxygen valve located right by their right hand.

Lots ships over trivial size get a prefix e.g. RMS Titanic SS , MV and MS are common for passenger vessels I can't think of a better prefix than BFR though.

I believe this image comes from the paper where they are showing what the image would look like for various axes of rotation for the black hole and the accretion disk. For reasons I don't quite understand but are something to do with relativity it is the direction of rotation of the hole (the black arrows)rather than the direction of rotation of the accretion disk (the blue arrows) that has determined where the bright spots are.

That thing leaves the pad fast!

The chamber temperature of you solid methane hybrid engine is going to be over 3000K. Your methane isn't going to be solid for long.

I think that the excitement about metallic hydrogen it that if you can form it is is believed to be metastable so you have an extremely high density form of hydrogen that can be stored without cryogenic tanks. Other gasses when cooled aren't going to form metals so all you get is a slightly denser form of the substance that has to be kept extra cold.

Updated One day I'll manage to perform a release without screwing up the versioning. But it wasn't this release.

There was an error in the log file and googling the error I found a suggestion to delete that directory. I'm afraid I can't remember what the error said.

Hi, I'm trying to use the create new bodies from KSP tool. I have KSP running and in the flight scene (a vessel on the launchpad) when I click the button to connect. In the logs of KSP I see [KSPTOT Connect] accepted connection [2] from IP: 127.0.0.1:51123 [KSPTOT Connect] new connection however in the TOT I get a "No Data" error - "there was an error pulling data from KSPTOTConnect" EDIT: It looks like I needed to restart KSPTOT, and in order to restart TOT I needed to delete the directory C:\Users\Tom\AppData\Local\Temp\Tom\mcrCache9.3

Ok, I have finally got round to releasing the latest version of SS, version 2.5.2 It should work reliably with kerbal 1.6 and also reduce the log spam.

I think you are trying to understand too many levels at once. No-one can understand directly how voltages in a transistor become KSP. instead you need to break it down into lots of steps. Each step involves adding together large numbers of the previous step. The full steps to forming a chain of understanding would include Understanding how voltages in transistors act as switches. Understanding how to build the basic logic (and, or, nand, nor, not) gates from transistors. Understanding how to build basic cpu components like the adder above out of logic gates. Understanding how to implement simple machine code instuctions like load, store, add etc from the cpu components. Understanding how to build simple programs out of machine code instructions understanding how to convert programs written in more advanced languages (c, c# etc) into machine code instructions Understanding how to create the desired program in an advanced language As a programmer I have a pretty good knowledge of step 7 but a much more basic understanding of all the other steps. As for your more specific question of how you display an answer to the user you could probably imagine a system where a series of lights turned on and of to show the binary value of the result. The next step in computer evolution would be something like an old fashioned seven segment display. There to control just the top segment you are going to need several logic gates, it needs to be lit for any digit except 4 and 1. Trying to explain how the result of a calculation is displayed on a modern digital monitor in terms of electrical currents is just the wrong question to ask. It crosses too many levels of the model and any full answer is going to have to be a very long book.

The latest version works for 1.4.2 and I believe 1.5

Didn't the test flight deliberately spend some time hanging around before burning for it's trans-martian orbit deliberately to demonstrate this capability?

Ive uploaded a new release that fixes a couple of broken localization tags - thanks to Wyzard256

It ought to