Marcelo Silveira

Will the new Pioneer 6 be a single part (plus the antennae) or use a probe core and a service module? Because the Pioneer 6 service module is very useful for small relay satellites.

This mod is very helpful to balance RCS for rotation, translation or engine placement in shuttle-ish crafts.

That can be done just by creating a new B9 Tank Type and adding it to the cargo carrying parts, just like the USI/B9 patch

Missile Row! Missile Row! Missile Row! from top to bottom: LC-5/6, LC-17, horizontal test pad pretending to be LC-1, LC-36, 3 LC-14's, 2 LC-19's, LC-37, LC-40 and LC-41 The launchpads are very close, I know. But it looks kinda nice like this.

I also has a biome scanner and an anomaly scanner. Maybe the early corona could use the biome scanner... I think that resource constraint is the way to go with KH-1 and KH-4

Yes, it has a very nice Atlas V with a modular centaur. You can put an RL-10 to have more realism or any other engine, hey, you can even add an F-1 engine that would REALLY solve the low TWR issue.

I rewrote the part that handles the Atlas parameters, it now only calls a table. So when I have to make changes I just need to adjust ONE file. Thank you for the head up yesterday I changed the code to handle the flight after sustainer engine cut-off and used a more accurate model.

it won't. but I'm working on a way to simplify that, I just hope it works the way I intend to

I'm using matlab, so I have to write my own code to crunch the numbers. I will try to remember to write a more in depth manual with the code, this could be useful for some engineering student (or to inspiring someone into engineering)

Quick Atlas thing update I made some progress on the the atlas delta v thing. At this point I think it is an absolute overkill doing that for KSP, but i kinda like it . The final results will be available with new dv maps and a new atlas launch manual next month. So far it is looking quite promissing. Some configurations match quite well KSP It might look very complicated for now, but it will be much easier to understand and use that information when everything (the dv maps and new manual) is done.

Well, it's not that bad of an issue, a satellite can fulfill its mission even if it is in a slightly different orbit. Also, orbital perturbations will make really circular orbits not possible, unless if you have and attitude and orbit control system (yaaaay! electric electric propulsion ftw!). You only need a very precise upper stage in for interplanetary trajectories (this is why deep space maneuvers exist) and ICBM launches. TL,DR: too much TWR makes your final trajectory slightly unpredictable, use RCS to fine tune your orbit

Ok, the new Atlas dv calculator now calculates the Drag losses and gravity losses. But they depend on the launch trajectory... so...I had to do a lot more than originally intended.

So... I had some free time and added some things to the Atlas delta V... it will calculate the losses for an Atlas launch is it overkill? ... nooooooooooooo, not at all...

heck yes! Ranger and Mariner would be a great think to have in KSP

yeaaaahhh boooooi, an entire LEO communications constellation on a single launch!!! @Pappystein,I did the math, the magic number is 194.094 dB

I remember seing something similar due to RealChute. Sometimes it used the dragbox as if the parachute was open.

Maybe the RT compatibility patch uses :FOR instead of :NEEDS

If I remember correctly the 5 F-1 engines managed to hit over 210 dB's at the launch pad. Anything beyond 190 dB's isn't even a sound wave anymore, it's a shockwave! The Space shuttle hit 180 dB at the payload bay (although the space shuttle barely had any sound insulation for the payload bay. The Falcon-9 hits 131 dB inside the Payload fairing and around 160 dB outside.... So yeah... the F-1 engine sound is quite LOUD hehehe FATATLAS has a stage and half design, both Kerbal Engineer and Mechjeb are not capable of calculating the TWR, dV and so on... that's why I did the dV math. I would love to make the dV charts for FATATLAS so people could use it (and maaaaybe someone might want to dive deeper in the numbers), but I will only have some time available to make them by mid to late December... so... until then... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Check in the files created by ModuleManager, the ModuleManager.ConfigCache has all the cfg's that are actually loaded in KSP. Check if the BDB antennae have the ModuleDataTransmitter or not.

Try using Realchute, you will have to make a module manager patch for the drogue chute though. You can find a version compiled for ksp 1.8 on github

Interesting... but I think a part like that would greatly benefit from B9PS. A DPAF-like part can have multiple lengths in a single part. I don't think it would be a very complicated think to model, just a hollow cylinder with CFRP texture although the colliders could get tricky Could it even use the new Delta III payload adapters texture?

Some time ago the engines thrust were changed, so I had to update the Atlas dV calculations (the old ones were no longer accurate). Good news is: The graphs on the wiki are now updated! There were also some changes in how I calculated those things, but that is not very important

I had some free time today and did the thing! I had to redo some calculations because there was an engine rebalance, so the old delta-v maps are not as accurate. Keep in mind that I did not test this in ksp. So if something is too far off the calculated delta-v , please tell me I will redo the delta-v maps fo the other Atlas versions (but not fat atlas for now)

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH... I was thinking fat Atlas not the Atlas V heavy

eeyup! stage and half designs are a lot trickier than stack designs. will the Atlas heavy parts be on future releases? I haven't KSP in quite a while, if thy will be I can make the delta-v map for the Atlas heavy soon™