Assorted Hardware

[CaptainSlug]

Lander Leg v1.2

http://www.captainslug.com/temp/LanderLeg1.2.zip

Lander Peg

http://www.captainslug.com/temp/LanderPeg1.0.zip

Radial-Mount Parachute v1.5 - Chutes anywhere!

http://www.captainslug.com/temp/RadialParachute1.5.zip

Aerospike Engine - 50% length, 25% more efficient, 10% more weight.

http://www.captainslug.com/temp/AerospikeEngine1.0.zip

Wingload - Modular Winglets with attachment points at their tips. Will require reinforcement with struts if large boosters are attached to them.

http://www.captainslug.com/temp/Wingload1.1.zip

Tailcone - Pointy side down?

http://www.captainslug.com/temp/tailcone1.0.zip

Signal Flare - Attach to anything you want to keep track of or leave it behind at any other point in space you want to have as a frame of reference. Attaches to anything.

http://captainslug.com/temp/SignalFlare1.0.zip

Solar Collector - A Fuel cell that turns solar energy into fuel. Basically a zero-thrust engine with negative consumption. Unfortunately it\'s currently able to 'refill' a tank past its rated capacity.

http://www.captainslug.com/temp/SolarCollector1.2.zip

1.75m Solid Rocket Booster

http://www.captainslug.com/temp/175srb1.0.zip

Payload Fairing Set V1.7

As requested and after a hell of a lot of work, I\'ve finished a split payload fairing set in both 3 and 2 meter diameters.

Includes

+ PLF Explosive bolt

+ PLF 3m Bulkhead

+ PLF 3m Nose Cone

+ PLF 3m Nose Half

+ PLF 3m Wall Half

+ PLF 3m Wall Half Short

+ PLF 2m Bulkhead

+ PLF 2m Nose Cone

+ PLF 2m Nose Half

+ PLF 2m Wall Half

+ PLF 2m Wall Half Short

+ PLF 1.75m Bulkhead

+ PLF 1.75m Nose Cone

+ PLF 1.75m Nose Half

+ PLF 1.75m Wall Half

+ PLF 1.75m Wall Half Short

Includes an explosive bolt that you surface mount to the top edge of a 1.75 meter, 2 meter, or 3 meter tank. The explosive bolts act as an attachment point for the PLF halves.

Or you can use one of the nose cones on-top of a nano decoupler.

http://captainslug.com/temp/PLFset1.7.zip

Radial Booster Pack v2.2

1. Radial Ullage Booster - For assisting stage separation. Very short firing time.

2. Radial Solid Booster - Angular thrust for directional stability.

3. Radial Spin Booster - Provides rotational thrust to aid in trajectory stabilization.

4. Radial Liquid Booster - Throttle adjustable thrust for directional stability. Must be attached to liquid fuel tank.

5. Radial Large Liquid Booster - Like before, only larger.

6. Radial Retro Booster - For assisting stage separation. Very short firing time.

http://captainslug.com/temp/RadialBoosterPack2.2.zip

Flying Saucer v1.0 - Low-weight cheat parts. Body/Tank piece, plus an engine with low thrust and infinite fuel. Fits inside a 3-meter Payload fairing.

Handles best with SAS turned on.

http://www.captainslug.com/temp/FlyingSaucer1.0.zip

[venku122]

I already had most of these by scrounging around the suggestions forum. The aerospike engine looks cool. Always looking for new, interesting engine types

[McLuv]

Lovin' it. You should make a 'pack' download with all the files in one zip file, though, in addition to the buffet style pick-and-choose

[Frostiken]

Well if that landing peg isn't the cutest thing...

[CaptainSlug]

As requested and after a hell of a lot of work, I've finished a split payload fairing set in both 3 and 2 meter diameters.

Link and images in first post.

I have a few parts I may want to add to it later.

+ 1.75 meter diameter parts

+ Short strake (to surface attach to walls to aid stable separation in-flight)

+ Modify Explosive Bolt to allow it to separate individual panels from eachother

[sirscott]

As requested and after a hell of a lot of work, I've finished a split payload fairing set in both 3 and 2 meter diameters.

Link and images in first post.

I have a few parts I may want to add to it later.

+ 1.75 meter diameter parts

+ Short strake (to surface attach to walls to aid stable separation in-flight)

+ Modify Explosive Bolt to allow it to separate individual panels from eachother

Bravo! Excellent parts as ever!

[venku122]

You make some incredibly high quality parts. I eagerly await your next release!

[enalzi]

I gotta say, out of all the fairings that have been released, yours work the best and are the easiest to use.

[McLuv]

Thanks for tackling that Payload Fairing

[Andras]

Used Sunday's 3m decoupler as the payload base. The explosive bolts are a little powerful, the push the bottom out so fast the top pivots down and wipes out the payload. I turned the ejection force down to 2 and it's better.

I tried to do this with the double length solids and LFT like the Titan IV, but it kept breaking the stack in the middle.

[CaptainSlug]

To control their hinge out you can do several things.

1. Reduce Explosive bolt force, or even make it a small negative number.

2. Attach a strake or winglet to the surface of the Wall Half. The off-center drag with pull the fairing away. At some point I intend to make a shortened strake to use with these.

3. Attach a ullage booster to the inside surface of the Wall Half and stage it with the explosive bolt.

4. Attach a strut to the outside surface of the Wall Half and the outside surface of the item you're attaching the Explosive bolt to. Placement and staging it with the explosive bolt or not can affect the rotation moved of the fairing.

5. Cut your throttle to zero when detaching the fairing.

[venku122]

I made an ICBM with your fairings

[KingAirDriver]

Can anyone spell out how to get into KSP, find the explosive bolt files and change the force? I, too, have managed to severely cripple the Kerbal's tele-communication abilities by destroying every satellite I've sent up from the 'sploding panels.

[Andras]

open the plf exp bolt folder, then open the part.cfg file with notepad

change the ejectionforce value to 1 or 2

[KingAirDriver]

Thanks, Andras! Will work on it in the morning. 8)

[Howson]

Can someone please make a tutorial on how to use the fairings?

[KingAirDriver]

CaptainSlug, you said that if the PLF halves 'wiggle' during flight to stiffen them with a strut. Well, my latest design peels open like a banana during flight, lol.

I can't get the struts to attach to the PLF halves. How do you go about attaching them? They just float through the panels and won't attach to anything. ???

[Andras]

Can someone please make a tutorial on how to use the fairings?

method 1

Attach a pair of the Explosive Bolts to a base on sym=2

Attach the side walls to the bolts

Attach the nose cone halves to the side walls

use a strut on the nose halves to hold them together

method 2

use a decoupler at the top of your payload

attach the solid nose cone

attach the walls to the side attach points on the nose cone

CaptainSlug, you said that if the PLF halves 'wiggle' during flight to stiffen them with a strut. Well, my latest design peels open like a banana during flight, lol.

I can't get the struts to attach to the PLF halves. How do you go about attaching them? They just float through the panels and won't attach to anything. ???

use the strut on the nose cone halves

look at the Titan IIIE I posted on the 1st page, you can see the strut on the nose halves.

[KingAirDriver]

Okay, thanks. Will try it out. I'm glad there's folks like you out there to help inept guys like me, lol.

[Frostiken]

Shit just got real, s0n.

The prototype works, albeit with some serious stability issues. Need to work on that, then get this into space.

It can also carry satellites with the proper decoupler, but who gives a damn about that?

PS: Slug - I would suggest modifying the explosive bolt plate so that it allows you to stick boosters and such on it as well. Despite my general ineptitude I'm going to try modding it myself

[greencross]

Shit just got real, s0n.

The prototype works, albeit with some serious stability issues. Need to work on that, then get this into space.

It can also carry satellites with the proper decoupler, but who gives a damn about that?

PS: Slug - I would suggest modifying the explosive bolt plate so that it allows you to stick boosters and such on it as well. Despite my general ineptitude I'm going to try modding it myself

OMG... never thought I'd see a manned ballistic missile.

[Frostiken]

It would really help if I had proper parts... of note:

1) Very short radial decouplers - the long ones made by Nova (I think) are extremely long, longer than I can use. Having the explosive bolts from this pack modified into a second one to allow bolt-on boosters would remedy this.

2) 0.25M parts. You can see I'm using the micro liquid fuel tanks, but this has problems on its own, notably strength and stability - the more things you stack the less stable it is, after all. Struts only do so much...

3) 1.75m, 2m, and 3m structural bulkheads. Basically, similar to Sunday Punch's 3m 1-to-5 or 1-to-7 bits, so I can form sections easier.

4) Better payloads These bombs are AWFULLY huge.

Really the best at this point would be 0.25M parts

[CaptainSlug]

PS: Slug - I would suggest modifying the explosive bolt plate so that it allows you to stick boosters and such on it as well. Despite my general ineptitude I'm going to try modding it myself

If you edit the part.cfg of the explosive bolt and enable allowsrfattach you can use it as a typical radial decoupler.

Like so

// attachment rules: stack, srfAttach, allowStack, allowSrfAttach, allowCollision
attachRules = 0,1,1,1,1

I didn't do this by default because I thought with how small these are it would be difficult to be sure you actually attached a part to them. Maybe I should scale up their length a bit more.

[Frostiken]

Worked like a champ - no problems so far, but I'm using it to hold bombs on... so there you go. I even made a second part with less explosive force so they drop rather than get thrown off so I can still use the original one for fairings. It's a great payload release mechanism as it's small and unobtrusive. Reminiscent of Nova's linear decouplers, but without being a thousand feet long

Thanks

I am still having problems with the fairings smashing inward (unrelated to the above - that's a new 'part') mostly because I'm trying to jettison them in-atmosphere. I guess they weren't really designed for this... Personally my favorite method of fairing separation was this: http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/forum/index.php?topic=537.0

Since it lets you 'float' the decoupler, the panels attach in the center and then blow outward without disproportionate force on the top or bottom... it works great in-atmosphere as it simply goes outwards. Something to look in to?

[KingAirDriver]

Shit just got real, s0n.

The prototype works, albeit with some serious stability issues. Need to work on that, then get this into space.

It can also carry satellites with the proper decoupler, but who gives a damn about that?

PS: Slug - I would suggest modifying the explosive bolt plate so that it allows you to stick boosters and such on it as well. Despite my general ineptitude I'm going to try modding it myself