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  1. Ravenchant
    Apologies that the RO/RP-0 work was on hiatus,I return home tomorrow and will finally try to look at the antennae and instruments. The return capsule as well
  2. Ravenchant
    February 1964, and it has been so for about a month. Haven't found any time to sit down and do that Mars flyby properly
  3. Ravenchant
    Testing Bluedog Design bureau parts in RSS. The SOLTAN boosters work pretty well...better than they did in real life, anyway.
  4. Ravenchant
    Are you telling me I did this in vain, dawg? Anyway, managed to get most SRBs done, Titan ones coming next week...and the Castor. There's something funky with its rotation.
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    Indeed. Combustion temperatures would be significantly lower as well, around 2000°C, but pressure could become an issue either way. Propane tanks are usually rated for around 17 bar from what I see, which is okay when the tank is full but would quickly drop to less-than-usable levels as the fuel depletes.
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    @PB666 @A Fuzzy Velociraptor Peroxide is not easy to handle from an objective point of view, but I suggested it because it was the first thing to come to mind and it's next to harmless in comparison with hydrazine mixtures and NTO. As for catalysts, Black Arrow got by with a silver plated nickel wire mesh for a 85% concentration. Laughing gas/propane would be a much better choice, as you said, and easier to acquire.
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    I second the Kerosene/H2O2 combination. Peroxide is just volatile enough to be interesting to work with and its specific impulse with kerosene isn't *that* horrible compared to most hypergolics at somewhere around 280-290s.
  8. Ravenchant
    The Realism Overhaul Github, not the BDB Github If there's to be a hiatus, I might even catch up!
  9. Ravenchant
    @davidy12 Only the barebones RO/RP0 ones. It's a procedural interstage flipped around, then a rectangular frame of girders is attached to the interstage fairing. Procedural tanks (for the protrusions) and engines attach to that. Then fuel lines and struts are added. The whole shebang is close to 40 parts IIRC. @CobaltWolf I just submitted the first pull request for a couple of command parts on Github, have 6 or 7 solids partially done as well. I'll try to finish configs for solid motors sometime this week
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    Yup, that was MX-1593. Smaller warheads made the design overkill. I'm actually using something similar in RSS, needs a lot of struts though.
  11. Ravenchant
    Woah, you're approaching RoverDude levels of mod-making speed. Is that thing on the right supposed to be Shuttle-Centaur? BTW, methinks I'll start RO-ifying some parts today. Science stuff.
  12. Ravenchant
    You're thinking of MAKS
  13. Ravenchant
    Yup, everything looks good to me as well Is Bullhorn supposed to be a F7 and Clydesdale a smaller Noratlas? Maybe an early mission could be air-launching a sounding rocket, as the US Navy used to do.
  14. Ravenchant
    Sure I can make some time during weekends, at least.
  15. Ravenchant
    @jstnj It just means nobody has made the part explicitly compatible. Impulse and mass will be unchanged from the original- if the mod it's from has been made with RO in mind in the first place, it may work fine, but in general I'd avoid using non-RO parts except for structural ones. For engines it's easy to check: If it uses LFO/oxidizer or Monopropellant, it's not properly configured.
  16. Ravenchant
    Thank you for liking them! I'm surprised they work in 1.1 tbh. But I had no problems rescaling the bases to whatever diameter...made a 0.813m one just the other day. Thanks They still look kinda glossy though.
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    @StickyScissors I actually completely missed that PF has updated already as I haven't even downloaded 1.1 yet Sure, I'll check if any changes are necessary and update sometime this week. I'll also try putting it on CKAN so installing will be less fiddly. (Edit: also, thanks for using the mod! Do you have any ideas on changes you'd like me to make?)
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    I meant that I have a list of engines I want to make, most of which I'll never get around to doing, but that works too Actually, the RD-843 was on there too now that I checked.
  19. Ravenchant
    They look great! And with the Vikings done, that's one engine off my probably-never-going-to-be-realised master listTM
  20. Ravenchant
    Leaving Earth behind (the actual picture is months old, I was just browsing through my imgur and "found" it again.)
  21. Ravenchant
    There have been several mentions of "monopropellant engines having high TWRs." Any examples? From what I know their thrust to weight ratios are abysmal compared to bipropellant engines, and the highest I could find is Aerojet Rocketdyne's MR-80 thruster at a whopping 37.1.
  22. Ravenchant
    Without RP-0, career is unfortunately unusable as your contracts will be configured for the Kerbin system instead of our own. What kind of problems did you have?
  23. Ravenchant
    Is that with RP-0 installed? The time setting is in the game settings under "Use Earth time" or somesuch.
  24. Ravenchant
    Everything lookin' good! The quadruple Gamma will make a good temporary stand-in for HM-4 and YF-73 as soon as I can get my grubby little hands on it
  25. Ravenchant
    It's like a Korolev cross, except in the end they slam back together and explode.
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