[1.12.5] Bluedog Design Bureau - Stockalike Saturn, Apollo, and more! (v1.14.0 "металл" 30/Sep/2024)

[Pudgemountain]

After many thoughts I decided a trip to Halley's Comet will be my last mission on my current career because of many reasons including, a full science tree and so much stuff it's laggy. However I will start a new career with Stock KSP system, planet packs and GU and maybe Life Support.

To Commemorate this career I decided to post (In Spoilers) Some  but not all of the most famous missions and machines I did in this career mode in chronological order.

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Telstar 1.

Lunatik Probes 1,2,3, and 4.

Sausage series Inner Planet flyby probes. I chose the wrong antenna so I had to wait for them to get back close to earth before transmitting lol.

Fuji landing probes.

Apollo Moon Missions.

Telstar GEO communication probes.

Skilling Venus Roving probe.

Deep Space Probes.

Skylab.

Fuji Titan crew transport ships.

Bradbury Nuclear Pulse Ship (My favorite out of these.)

Nemo the Prototype Kraken Drive ship.

Sisko Mars Lander.

Mila. RIP Mila Kerman.

Gemini Phoenix.

Saturn Launch System.

Archer class Heavy Duty Impulse Landers.

Birthday Cake.

I really don't know what to say other than keep up the great work and boldy go where no Kerbal has gone before.

[Blufor878]

1 hour ago, Pudgemountain said:

After many thoughts I decided a trip to Halley's Comet will be my last mission on my current career because of many reasons including, a full science tree and so much stuff it's laggy. However I will start a new career with Stock KSP system, planet packs and GU and maybe Life Support.

To Commemorate this career I decided to post (In Spoilers) Some  but not all of the most famous missions and machines I did in this career mode in chronological order.

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Telstar 1.

Lunatik Probes 1,2,3, and 4.

Sausage series Inner Planet flyby probes. I chose the wrong antenna so I had to wait for them to get back close to earth before transmitting lol.

Fuji landing probes.

Apollo Moon Missions.

Telstar GEO communication probes.

Skilling Venus Roving probe.

Deep Space Probes.

Skylab.

Fuji Titan crew transport ships.

Bradbury Nuclear Pulse Ship (My favorite out of these.)

Nemo the Prototype Kraken Drive ship.

Sisko Mars Lander.

Mila. RIP Mila Kerman.

Gemini Phoenix.

Saturn Launch System.

Archer class Heavy Duty Impulse Landers.

Birthday Cake.

I really don't know what to say other than keep up the great work and boldy go where no Kerbal has gone before.

And I thought I had a lot of parts mods.

Also how upset would you guys feel if I put RS-25 engines on a Saturn I?

Edited September 23, 2022 by Blufor878

[Pudgemountain]

31 minutes ago, Blufor878 said:

And I thought I had a lot of parts mods.

Also how upset would you guys feel if I put RS-25 engines on a Saturn I?

1: I am surprised my laptop or external hard drive had not caught fire yet lol.

2: My brutal honest opnion about it. That is one of the least cursed rockets I seen in this topic lol.

Edited September 24, 2022 by Pudgemountain

[Entr8899]

38 minutes ago, Blufor878 said:

And I thought I had a lot of parts mods.

Also how upset would you guys feel if I put RS-25 engines on a Saturn I?

Not at all. The fins clipping through the boattail offends me more.

[Blufor878]

1 hour ago, Entr8899 said:

Not at all. The fins clipping through the boattail offends me more.

I have mixed feelings about it too. I'll probably refine the design later when I get the chance.

1 hour ago, Pudgemountain said:

1: I am surprised my laptop or external hard drive had not caught fire yet lol.

2: My brutal honest opnion about it. That is one of the least cursed rockets I seen in this topic lol.

Response 1: Thank your local firefighters, whether its cats in trees, forest fires, or KSP players screwing around with parts that technically were never meant to be together.

Response 2: Don't know if I should say "thank you" or "what did I miss?"

Edited September 24, 2022 by Blufor878

[Pudgemountain]

25 minutes ago, Blufor878 said:

Response 2: Don't know if I should say "thank you" or "what did I miss?"

Both lol.

[KeaKaka]

4 hours ago, Blufor878 said:

And I thought I had a lot of parts mods.

Also how upset would you guys feel if I put RS-25 engines on a Saturn I?

I've seen worse.

Like the time I put RS-25s on a INT-17:

[Rutabaga22]

FInally built the big G!

And the Big G Saturn V

[Rutabaga22]

Launch the big G saturn V
 Had multiple staging issues
Bad, Bad time. Had to lower my periapsis with my RCS thrusters

[DaveyJ576]

41 minutes ago, Rutabaga22 said:

FInally built the big G!

And the Big G Saturn V

Try a three F-1 variant of the INT-20 for the Big G. Kill the center engine when you hit 3.5 G and you can hit 200 km on KSRSS no sweat. 

[GoldForest]

51 minutes ago, Rutabaga22 said:

FInally built the big G!

And the Big G Saturn V

Get rid of that decoupler. The straight S-IVB spacecraft adapter has a BiG G node specifically designed for the spacecraft.

[Rutabaga22]

2 minutes ago, GoldForest said:

Get rid of that decoupler. The straight S-IVB spacecraft adapter has a BiG G node specifically designed for the spacecraft.

Oh cool, I put that there because it didn't show a decoupler in the staging.

[Blufor878]

11 hours ago, KeaKaka said:

I've seen worse.

Like the time I put RS-25s on a INT-17:

Actually that doesn't look that bad.

[GoldForest]

1 hour ago, Rutabaga22 said:

Oh cool, I put that there because it didn't show a decoupler in the staging.

Yeah, just set it for payload decouple instead of spacecraft decouple.

[ra4nd0m]

So I've decided to try my best in recreating Skylab. But after Skylab 4 i thought just deorbiting it is kinda lame and decided to do shuttle Skylab proposal. So there is the teleoperator retrieval tug which is supposed to be used for reboosting the station. Is there a way to do it as authentically as possible without any tweakscale (i hate it)?

Edited September 24, 2022 by ra4nd0m

[Kass__XAP]

Go NROL-91!

 

Edited September 24, 2022 by Pioneer_Steve

[pTrevTrevs]

Spaceflights of 1982: The Greatest Crossover in Cinematic History:

 

Got a lot of minor missions to show off this year, but I like to feature them anyway. Not every spaceflight is a blockbuster, you know.

 

January: Insat 1A / Delta 3910 PAM-D:

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March: STS-8 (Challenger) with Insat 1B (India), Palapa B1 (Indonesia), and SPAS-01 (West Germany):

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I will keep commentary on this mission minimal since I covered it in Shuttle Adventures, but considering that I did use a lot of BDB parts, it's worth covering.

 

April: Intelsat 5-2 on a very icy Atlas:

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Honestly, words cannot express how happy I am to have an ice-covered Atlas. Now I just need the ice to melt off during launch.

Unlike Intelsat 5-1, both solar panels remained attached during the burn to GEO.

 

June: Satcom 5, on the first launch of Delta 3924. Exchanging the Delta-P with its Apollo LM descent engine (the supply of which is diminishing rapidly) for a new AJ-10 variant on the Delta-K, the Delta 3920 series offers yet another increase in power for an incredibly resilient launcher. Even in the face of reusable space shuttles and increasingly cheap Saturn IC launches, Delta refuses to die.

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I'm also glad I've reached the time period where satellites start becoming a little diverse. As neat as Hughes spinners are, they get stale after awhile...

 

August: STS-9/Spacelab-1: Won't say much here for the same reason I didn't say much about STS-8. Visit Shuttle Adventures.

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September: Skylab 12, the first five-man expedition to the station, launches from LC-34. While Skylab flights are rapidly becoming seen as uninteresting and routine, today's launch is special. Skylab 12's primary objective will be to oversee the addition of the station's first major expansion in over six years, cooperating with STS-10 (Challenger) to install and checkout the new Androgynous Multiple Docking Adapter...

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Skylab 12 is also the first Apollo mission to launch with the crew wearing the Shuttle's Launch Entry Suit. The changeover from the A7LB was motivated by the new capability to fly five astronauts aboard, with the larger crews being more difficult to supply with custom-made A7LBs. Skylab 12's orbital module also carries two EMU spacesuits for EVAs from the station, which have also been previously tested aboard the Shuttle. The LES and EMU are both one-size-fits-all, allowing any astronaut to fit the standardized suits and simplifying upkeep requirements greatly. While some older astronauts show disdain for the gaudy-looking "pumpkin suits", the benefits of modern technology are not so easy to dismiss. The A7LB is dead, long live the LES/EMU.

After a standard rendezvous, Skylab 12 becomes the final spacecraft to dock at Skylab's main forward drogue.

The first month aboard is spent checking out the station and preparing it for Challenger's arrival in October. This includes an EVA to clear the station exterior and ensure its running lights and radar transponders are functioning.

This is the first EVA from Skylab to be performed using the new EMU spacesuits, finally replacing the venerable A7L after more than a decade of service.

 

October: Challenger launches with the Skylab AMDA. I haven't even covered this one in Shuttle Adventures yet, so you should feel special seeing it here first.

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Upon confirmation of a successful Shuttle launch, Skylab 12 relocates their spacecraft to the nadir port on the station's Docking and Guidance Module. This port is normally reserved for Aardvark resupply craft, but is capable of hosting Apollo also.

The forward port is nor clear for the Shuttle and AMDA, and the day after launch Challenger arrives with the station's new expansion in tow.

The AMDA features the new APAS-75 docking port, the first system in the world to not require a male-female interface. APAS can operate with either side serving as the active partner in a rendezvous and docking, and also features a wider passage than the Apollo docking system. This latter point means that new and bigger equipment can be transferred into Skylab through the port. The ADMA also enables further additions to Skylab, and in the future a new solar power module, extra laboratories, a dedicated airlock, and additional habitation space will be added to the station. All this will extend Skylab's life into the late 1980s and even enable permanent habitation, greatly benefitting NASA in its quest to learn more about the effects of long-term weightlessness.

For now, however, the combined missions of Skylab 12 and STS-10 form the largest spacecraft to ever orbit the Earth, while their combined crews shatter previous records for crew size, with eleven astronauts in orbit aboard the same spacecraft. Two astronauts, one from Skylab 12 and one from STS-10, also perform an EVA from Challenger's airlock to inspect the new module and install external connections between the AMDA and the station proper.

 

[610yesnolovely]

Update 0.7.6 of Reviva (for RPM/MAS IVA switching) now supports1 Hermes (Mercury), Vinci (Gemini), Kane (Apollo), and Sinai (LEM) IVAs from various stock IVAs. See the above post. I did not make these IVA, merely configs for Reviva & BDB.

There are plenty of other RPM and MAS configs for various tech levels/features for these BDB pods, these are the best looking retro style though (IMHO). Reviva means you can switch from the original BDB most non-functional to one of many RPM and/or MAS IVA in the editor or even while in flight.

Hermes - RPM + Starilex Mk1 IVA

Vinci - MAS + Snakeru Beta Mk2 IVA

Kane - MAS + MOARdVPlus Mk1-3 IVA

Sinai - MAS + Max-Ksp MEM

[Blufor878]

3 hours ago, 610yesnolovely said:

Update 0.7.6 of Reviva (for RPM/MAS IVA switching) now supports1 Hermes (Mercury), Vinci (Gemini), Kane (Apollo), and Sinai (LEM) IVAs from various stock IVAs. See the above post. I did not make these IVA, merely configs for Reviva & BDB.

There are plenty of other RPM and MAS configs for various tech levels/features for these BDB pods, these are the best looking retro style though (IMHO). Reviva means you can switch from the original BDB most non-functional to one of many RPM and/or MAS IVA in the editor or even while in flight.

Kane - MAS + MOARdVPlus Mk1-3 IVA

 

Which mod did this IVA come from? I don't recognize it. It looks really cool!

[610yesnolovely]

23 minutes ago, Blufor878 said:

Which mod did this IVA come from? I don't recognize it. It looks really cool!

Yeah, it's from a MAS addon by @MOARdV - https://github.com/MOARdV/MOARdVPlus - pretty old, originally meant for the FASA Apollo, I added MM configs in Reviva for it and the Glass variant to work for modern BDB. You'd need that, MAS (Avionics System) instead of (or as well as) RPM. Note that I never modify or supply IVA mods, Reviva does it's magic via MM configs and B9PartSwitch and a small helper DLL.

The others are detailed in the Reviva README, which has a list of links to the various downloads supported at https://github.com/harveyt/reviva#dependency-summary

The Starilex one (Mercury) is very new for Stock Mk1 (RPM), the Snakeru is actually a zip in a MAS GitHub issue (beta) for Mk2 and so that uses MAS. I added Reviva support for BDB from any IVA for equivalent stock / MH pods because "moar IVA is better".

I'd also recommend looking at the Warbirds IVA set, they are marvellous, as good as ASET but retro.

Edited September 25, 2022 by 610yesnolovely

[Blufor878]

16 minutes ago, 610yesnolovely said:

Yeah, it's from a MAS addon by @MOARdV - https://github.com/MOARdV/MOARdVPlus - pretty old, originally meant for the FASA Apollo, I added MM configs in Reviva for it and the Glass variant to work for modern BDB. You'd need that, MAS (Avionics System) instead of (or as well as) RPM. Note that I never modify or supply IVA mods, Reviva does it's magic via MM configs and B9PartSwitch and a small helper DLL.

The others are detailed in the Reviva README, which has a list of links to the various downloads supported at https://github.com/harveyt/reviva#dependency-summary

The Starilex one (Mercury) is very new for Stock Mk1 (RPM), the Snakeru is actually a zip in a MAS GitHub issue (beta) for Mk2 and so that uses MAS. I added Reviva support for BDB from any IVA for equivalent stock / MH pods because "moar IVA is better".

I'd also recommend looking at the Warbirds IVA set, they are marvellous, as good as ASET but retro.

I thought that was the case. I sadly had to adjust one of the MOARdV patches because it was causing a conflict with a bunch of other cockpit/command pod parts' IVA's. So I wouldn't be surprised if that IVA is locked from me given the nature of my modlist. Ah well. The price of having 120+ mods I guess.

[610yesnolovely]

5 minutes ago, Blufor878 said:

I thought that was the case. I sadly had to adjust one of the MOARdV patches because it was causing a conflict with a bunch of other cockpit/command pod parts' IVA's. So I wouldn't be surprised if that IVA is locked from me given the nature of my modlist. Ah well. The price of having 120+ mods I guess.

I have 250+ mods, and all the IVA mods Reviva supports. Give it a go, if not, head over to the Reviva thread and I might be able to help.

[Blufor878]

24 minutes ago, 610yesnolovely said:

I have 250+ mods, and all the IVA mods Reviva supports. Give it a go, if not, head over to the Reviva thread and I might be able to help.

That mod count is a source of inspiration, comfort, and mild concern. I don't believe the issue is due to Reviva, but rather a patching conflict between Tundra Exploration and some other mods with IVA's such as kertemis and prakasa. Unless you have those mods as well, and I'm dumb (which isn't out of the question).

Edit: I posted the details on the Reviva thread, thought that would be more relevant there than here.

Edited September 25, 2022 by Blufor878

[Entr8899]

Seeing as @mcdoubleisn't active anymore, is there any possibility of adopting his Apollo D2 mod and incorporating it into BDB, with some touch-ups, in the future?

[thunder175]

@Zorg Been away for a few days and was hoping to see if someone isolated the Hermes main parachute not deploying issue a few of have been having. I saw the Community Fixes post above... is that where the bug is?