Convair NEXUS - super heavy Historical Launch Vehicle

[MatterBeam]

Cool.

I'm not sure exactly what needs changing, especially with engines, but I do have all the real world values. All the scales I've used are 50% (1/8th masses/thrusts/etc) of the Convair values where it was useful. But once into RO, I also have fuel residual numbers and so on.

I can convert those values into a .cfg file.

[TiktaalikDreaming]

The mod has been updated to mark it as KSPv1.0.5 compatible, and to add in new GCR model.

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For the next release I'm going to rejig all the numbers to use stock fuels, no extras, and make Community Resources as suggest instead of a bundled/requirement, and use module manager to add in the LH/LOX etc etc IFF community resources is there. There's a wee bit of work involved. :-) And pobably a giant spreadsheet that will end up confusing the hell out of me.

[TiktaalikDreaming]

The 1.1.4 release contains Stock Fuel configurations and ModuleManager entries to convert to LqdHydrogen etc iff CommunityResourcePack is available. I haven't gone out of my way to create dodgy overpowered rockets though, so you may struggle to get lift off using the original configurations.
 

 

Edited December 6, 2015 by TiktaalikDreaming

[_Augustus_]

Can you make a lower-memory version?

[TiktaalikDreaming]

Due to lack of me testing stuff properly, in the last few days I've noticed that the config for Community Resource Pack wasn't applying properly for many parts, tried fixing it by editing my dev game cfg files, and checking in a different KSP install, drove myself half crazy, figured out how daft I had been, fixed it, brought the high Isp GCR parts to beta grade, packed it up and uploaded it.

http://i.imgur.com/rVJrtaC.gifv

[halowraith1]

Could you do the Aggregate A-12, the unbuilt German orbital launcher?

http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/a9a11a12.htm

 

[TiktaalikDreaming]

4 hours ago, halowraith1 said:

Could you do the Aggregate A-12, the unbuilt German orbital launcher?

http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/a9a11a12.htm

 

I'll take a look.  It does seem the A-10 main rocket would never have worked, but that's from very early research.  I should also check up on any existing mod work for V-2 etc.  Not "super-heavy" by any stretch of the imagination, but in many ways, the A-12 is derivative of it.

[TiktaalikDreaming]

OK, I can't find any sign of parts packs for the V-2 rocket or the A-4 engine.  So, it looks like time for a small collection of some good old primasprit powered rockets.
From Operation Backfire, the British postmortem on the V-2 rocket, Vol1, p17;
59. Except against fire, no precautions were necessary when handling alcohol, but measures had to be taken to prevent pilfering the fuel for purposes other than rocket propulsion.
Not such an issue with other propellants.  :-)
 

Edited December 7, 2015 by TiktaalikDreaming

[TiktaalikDreaming]

Early stages of a v-2 A-4 rocket engine.  I'll get this working before basically inventing what an A-10 engine might have looked like.

[halowraith1]

so will you be going all the way up to the a-12 or just the a-10?

[TiktaalikDreaming]

5 hours ago, halowraith1 said:

so will you be going all the way up to the a-12 or just the a-10?

A-12.  The A-12 rocket uses the A-10 engine, which is confusing.  Likewise, the V-2 rocket uses the A-4 engine.  I should start a new thread.  :-)

[kerrigan778]

I am so unbelievably excited to do an alternate history RSS playthrough using this when I can run 64-bit properly.

[TiktaalikDreaming]

V-2 and A-12 and eventually the family of Aggregate rockets has a new WIP thread over at http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/127413-wip-german-wwii-rockets-including-never-built-absurdities/

[Proteus]

On 12/7/2015, 1:50:33, TiktaalikDreaming said:

Due to lack of me testing stuff properly, in the last few days I've noticed that the config for Community Resource Pack wasn't applying properly for many parts, tried fixing it by editing my dev game cfg files, and checking in a different KSP install, drove myself half crazy, figured out how daft I had been, fixed it, brought the high Isp GCR parts to beta grade, packed it up and uploaded it.

http://i.imgur.com/rVJrtaC.gifv

looks so good i'm drooling,is this all part of the current pack?

[TiktaalikDreaming]

2 hours ago, Proteus said:

looks so good i'm drooling,is this all part of the current pack?

1.1.6, as the current version. Although it's a bit of a bitch getting the high ISP gcr into orbit. 

[kerbiloid]

On 08.12.2015, 1:33:48, TiktaalikDreaming said:

OK, I can't find any sign of parts packs for the V-2 rocket or the A-4 engine.  So, it looks like time for a small collection of some good old primasprit powered rockets.
From Operation Backfire, the British postmortem on the V-2 rocket, Vol1, p17;
59. Except against fire, no precautions were necessary when handling alcohol, but measures had to be taken to prevent pilfering the fuel for purposes other than rocket propulsion.
Not such an issue with other propellants.  :-)
 

Earlier of Tantares mod had V-2 clone named "Pavonis". Maybe still available.
Currently its maintainer moved it to Taerobee modas an American clone of V-2 named "Bumper". But with some design changes.

[TiktaalikDreaming]

3 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

Earlier of Tantares mod had V-2 clone named "Pavonis". Maybe still available.
Currently its maintainer moved it to Taerobee modas an American clone of V-2 named "Bumper". But with some design changes.

@NathanKell mentioned that over in the topic I started to keep the Aggregates separate from the Nexuses.

[TopHeavy11]

This is TOO OP! Brain...melting...*gurgle*

[Drakenred65]

Hmm

 

Nope not quite big enough, needs to be BIGGER.....(JK!) Sorry Ive b een in Texas a bit to long...

 

Great work overall

Edited December 18, 2015 by [email protected]

[TiktaalikDreaming]

3 hours ago, [email protected] said:

Hmm

 

Nope not quite big enough, needs to be BIGGER.....(JK!) Sorry Ive b een in Texas a bit to long...

 

Great work overall

Never fear.  Nexus size 2 is coming soon.  Twice the lift, twice the payload.  Mostly because I found I couldn't get anything using the high Isp GCR into orbit using the basic Nexus.

[starship]

Hello. For this mod i deceded to regidter on this forum.

I dowloaded this mod and it ....SUPER! 

But when i start to build my first 2stage rocket in first i have a trouble with strange shaking at near 8km. After that i understand to use struts. With it i pull THIS in low orbit but, when i decded decouple second stage with bid high isp atomic engine all construction destroyed witn big explosion. And now i dont understand what i do wrong? Can anybody give me the model of fully workable ship? 

Sorry for my english, i`m from Russia and haven`t a big practice on language.   

[123nick]

sorry if i posted about this before, but i the engine that uses ablator along with LF+O of some sort has 2 engine modes, one that uses no ablator, and apparently has slightly better ISP and thrust, and another one, that has slightly worst ISP and thrust, and does use ablator. is this intented? it may have been fixed.

[TiktaalikDreaming]

1 hour ago, 123nick said:

sorry if i posted about this before, but i the engine that uses ablator along with LF+O of some sort has 2 engine modes, one that uses no ablator, and apparently has slightly better ISP and thrust, and another one, that has slightly worst ISP and thrust, and does use ablator. is this intented? it may have been fixed.

That is intended.  When it's not burning ablator the effective Isp (including ablator) is higher, but the consumption of LH+LOX per thrust should be the same.  The ablator is a cooling mechanism, that's actually fairly common on rockets and this is my attempt at modelling it.  You should also notice that using the non-ablation mode will over-heat and explode fairly quickly.

[TiktaalikDreaming]

10 hours ago, starship said:

Hello. For this mod i deceded to regidter on this forum.

I dowloaded this mod and it ....SUPER! 

But when i start to build my first 2stage rocket in first i have a trouble with strange shaking at near 8km. After that i understand to use struts. With it i pull THIS in low orbit but, when i decded decouple second stage with bid high isp atomic engine all construction destroyed witn big explosion. And now i dont understand what i do wrong? Can anybody give me the model of fully workable ship? 

Sorry for my english, i`m from Russia and haven`t a big practice on language.   

Starship, get yourself http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/50911-105-kerbal-joint-reinforcement-v314-62215/

All large craft suffer from physics issues in KSP, and this mod does a fair bit towards fixing that up.

As to separating stages when you have really long engine sections, it's tricky at best, as your chance of the engine clipping the fairing wall is pretty good.  What I do is make sure all my acceleration is stopped and do my utmost best to cut any and all rotation.  Then I still cross my fingers.  especially with the high Isp engine. 

I'm also currently building a collection of demo/example Nexuses to replace the old ones.

[TiktaalikDreaming]

Updated.  Includes a couple of example Nexi.  I'll build some extras for the next update.

 

Edited December 21, 2015 by TiktaalikDreaming