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18 minutes ago, hraban said:

First pictures from PCS Progress successor

 

The solar panels are actually intended for KhiLm (Shenzhou). Beales (Tantares) new solar panels I have not tried so far.

Quality on your models has really improved over time. Hope you will do such a well-done beauty pass also on older parts :) Great work @hraban

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43 minutes ago, trooperMNG said:

Quality on your models has really improved over time. Hope you will do such a well-done beauty pass also on older parts :) Great work @hraban

Thank you very much.

It is planned but with the mass of parts it will probably take a while :wink:

Current count: 327
To rework: approx. 120

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I have got an answer from hraban on FAR being able to analyze the aerodynamics of single part vehicles. Here it is.

"FAR analyzes your craft, voxelizes it, and runs aero based on the voxel model.  So, if the mesh of the part accurately represents it's aero surface, it will be fine."

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1 hour ago, KSPNerd said:

I have got an answer from hraban on FAR being able to analyze the aerodynamics of single part vehicles. Here it is.

"FAR analyzes your craft, voxelizes it, and runs aero based on the voxel model.  So, if the mesh of the part accurately represents it's aero surface, it will be fine."

Nice, if so, all Contares space planes works. Have fun trying.

I'm sure that FAR the COG and COP for individual parts are incorrectly calculated, because this is not based on the mesh in this case. Say, the COG and COP information in the CFG must remain valid.

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Rework of RIVER (Angara). The URM of first stage has now 1.5m diameter. Payload is a FEDERAZIJA 3 with short orbital and service module.

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Click to see full size and details!

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1 hour ago, Jabbman said:

Looking good, I like the new Angara in particular!

My Kliper experiments

Upper stage for station module

Apollo-Saturn fun

Thanks, but Saturn and Apollo parts are no longer part of Contares.

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The construction makes you want more. UNION-1 2.1v transports up to 3t into a low orbit. The model consists of 5 parts:

- Control unit in the upper cone
- Tank of the second stage (The rocket engine of choice is the RK-Z-0124 which has already been delivered)
- Two parts form the tank of the first stage
- The RK-Z-33 in a 1.25m housing with an RK-Z-0110 engine on 4 control nozzles.

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6 minutes ago, CobaltWolf said:

@hraban that looks awesome! Reminds me of the color scheme of the old TLV, which I've sorely missed!

Thank you. The model has the same color scheme as FENIKS.
Perhaps in the next few days, besides the updates and revisions to KSP 1.2, i will go back one or two historical steps and devote myself to the R7, Vostok, Voskhod, Molniya and Soyuz series.

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16 minutes ago, hraban said:

Thank you. The model has the same color scheme as FENIKS.
Perhaps in the next few days, besides the updates and revisions to KSP 1.2, i will go back one or two historical steps and devote myself to the R7, Vostok, Voskhod, Molniya and Soyuz series.

I personally would greatly appreciate seeing more obscure old stuff get done; old space is far more fascinating to me than new space. New space stuff is all too clean and boring to me. :) Are you saying you'd basically do your own take on the Tantares LV, and then add more parts for additional stages?

(the real question... what diameter of the stages...?)

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2 minutes ago, CobaltWolf said:

I personally would greatly appreciate seeing more obscure old stuff get done; old space is far more fascinating to me than new space. New space stuff is all too clean and boring to me. :) Are you saying you'd basically do your own take on the Tantares LV, and then add more parts for additional stages?

(the real question... what diameter of the stages...?)

Well Contares Launcher are always nearly 50% scale. A potential R7/Soyuz core stage has 0.9375 at the RD-108 and 1.5m on the max. The Boosters 1.25m.

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1 minute ago, hraban said:

Well Contares Launcher are always nearly 50% scale. A potential R7/Soyuz core stage has 0.9375 at the RD-108 and 1.5m on the max. The Boosters 1.25m.

Does that mean the bulge will be 1.5m? Or the core will be 1.5? (pls be the second one)

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8 minutes ago, CobaltWolf said:

I know you are fairly set in the 50% scale launchers (as it's your choice :) ) but don't you worry about payloads not fitting properly with their launchers if you're scaling them differently?

What payload are you talking about? Tantares Soyuz spaceships and Progress fit perfectly.

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Just now, hraban said:

What payload are you talking about? Tantares Soyuz spaceships and Progress fit perfectly.

I was more thinking of things like Tantares' ATV and Ariane, which if I remember do not fit well. The Soyuz and Progress are already small so they wouldn't have the same issue.

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