Building of the KSS.

[IllicitMedic]

Haven't played in A LONG TIME and am loving the new update. Been playing through career and have recently started hauling up and constructing a space station using docking and KIS.

Thought I would share, its nothing special just haven't been on the forums in forever. Its based on the ISS as you will see and is being built in about the same order as well.

I've changed the names but so far I have the Zarya, Zvezda with attached escape pod, Unity, Destiny modules attached as well as the Z1, S0 and P6 truss with solar array and radiator. P6 and the SAW are currently attached to the Z1 truss as it was during building of the ISS.

My modules provide as follow:
Ortus (Zarya) - Station Keeping, guidance, communications, power generation, atorage.
Vitae (Zvezda) - Living space, research space, backup life support & comms, battery power, RCS fuel storage.
Diversa (Unity) - Contains all life support for the station.
Cognitis (Destiny) - Research lab.

There is room and supplies for 6 but currently only 3 are aboard.

Picture below, more to follow as progress is made.

Edited February 10, 2017 by IllicitMedic

[Snark]

Moving to Mission Reports.

[IllicitMedic]

Quick update.

The first section of the PIRS docking port and airlock has been installed as well as the ESP 1 and Airlock. This was done over the course of an hour long (real time) EVA by station engineers using KIS and KAS. The parts arrived via a Winterfell 1 launch vehicle with a dedicated KSS Supply 2nd stage.

The crew was then swapped out after 56 days in orbit.

Once the 2nd crew arrived the next load of parts arrived via a Phoenix 1XL launch vehicle  with the dedicated KSS supply 2nd stage. Over the course of an hour long (real time) EVA, ESP 2 was attached to the airlock and the S1, S3, S4, S5, S6 truss segments along with the radiators and solar arrays were installed using KIS and KAS.

The supply ship was undocked and deorbited before I realized the 4th solar array was still on board so it will arrive at a later date lol.

[IllicitMedic]

Both truss assemblies as well as solar arrays and radiators have been installed.

The final connecting node has been attached to the front of the research lab. The zoology bay will be connected to its port side and the spectrometer attached to the starboard side. The top/bottom and front port will be used for docking ships and experiments for the lab. 

The cyclotron was delivered by an Omega Heavy LV and attached via docking. The cyclotron's solar arrays and truss segment will be delivered next and assembled on EVA. The station is very near completion. Still to be attached are the spectrometer, the zoology bay as well as kibble storage, cupola and one more ESP as well as a few odds and ends.

A large module dedicated solely to powering the cyclotron may be designed in the future if needed using full cells and nuclear reactors should the stations current alkaline power cells and solar arrays prove not enough. It would be attached to the Kerbin facing port under the cyclotron.

The station is now crewed by 6. 4 scientists, an engineer and a pilot.

Crew upon completion will be as follows:

10 scientists (Assuming enough qualified applicants have been found by then)
1 Engineer
1 Pilot 




 

Edited February 12, 2017 by IllicitMedic