[1.0.5] FASA 5.44

[NathanKell]

You can't, not unless someone's written a plugin for that. What you can do is allow surface attachment to the part, and make a fuel line from it to your stack.

[Chebalu]

Thank you NathanKell and Happy New Year!

[SomeRandomeGuy]

This is one of my Favorite mods! Great work! By the way, will the capsules Survive the Deadly Reentry mod?

[Cdodders]

How can I stop the Titan SRBs from wobbling the rocket out of control? I currently lock the gyros on them but then I can perform the gravity turn till the boosters have staged

[MaverickSawyer]

If memory serves, the boosters have gimbals. Try locking the gimbals in the VAB before launch and use winglets for control.

[brooklyn666]

Would it be possible to have the Mercury and Gemini chutes work with RealChute? I love the models, but I wish they deployed realistically.

[Deltac]

Would it be possible to have the Mercury and Gemini chutes work with RealChute? I love the models, but I wish they deployed realistically.

Are you sure you're using the current version of Realchute? Everything works fine for me. Realchute includes a Module Manager file for FASA.

[tmikesecrist3]

I dont really know if this is a bug or not... but.... I just downloaded this mod the other day. and the Redstone seems to be crazy unstable... ie you fire it up and theres no telling where its going to go execpt you know it wont go up unless you fight with it, and even then good luck.... any one else haveing this issue? and what do I do about it

[Deltac]

I dont really know if this is a bug or not... but.... I just downloaded this mod the other day. and the Redstone seems to be crazy unstable... ie you fire it up and theres no telling where its going to go execpt you know it wont go up unless you fight with it, and even then good luck.... any one else haveing this issue? and what do I do about it

Never had this issue. Do you have FAR installed? I had an issue with the Atlas Mercury not wanting to fly straight with FAR once.

[MaverickSawyer]

I dont really know if this is a bug or not... but.... I just downloaded this mod the other day. and the Redstone seems to be crazy unstable... ie you fire it up and theres no telling where its going to go execpt you know it wont go up unless you fight with it, and even then good luck.... any one else haveing this issue? and what do I do about it

Did you add the little stabilizer fins at the bottom of the engine? They do help.

[tmikesecrist3]

I do now I had the problem before I installed ferram as well... and yes I have the fins on the bottem of the engine

[ferram4]

It's an issue involving the strange strap-decoupler that the Mercury capsule uses; basically it acts like it has a lot more drag than it should. The solution is to manually define a FARBasicDragModel module for it, using a surface area (S) of ~0.254 and setting the CdCurve, ClCurve and CmCurve to be zero at all points. I'm going to add this to the ferramaerospaceresearch.cfg to fix it, but you can manually copy it over for now:

@PART[FASAMercuryDec]
{
	MODULE
	{
		name = FARBasicDragModel
		S = 0.254
		CdCurve				//Drag coefficient at various angles
		{
			key = -1 0		//backwards
			key = 1.0 0		//forwards
		}
		ClCurve
		{
			key = -1 0		//Lift coefficient
			key = 1 0
		}
		CmCurve				//Moment coefficient
		{
			key = -1 0
			key = 1 0
		}
	}
}

[frizzank]

I think it has to do with the fact that far takes into account the mass of the object as well. Its mass may be too low for the drag parameters. Try updating the mercury_dec.cfg to this for the mass and drag.

mass = 0.05
dragModelType = default
maximum_drag = 0.01
minimum_drag = 0.01
angularDrag = 0.01

[ferram4]

FAR doesn't deal with the mass of the object at all, only its shape when calculating drag parameters. I actually just did a nice Mercury-Atlas mission with the settings in my earlier post and it works fine; nice and stable the whole way.

[frizzank]

So increasing the mass does nothing for the density of the object? That doesn't seem right at all...

Also the shape of the decoupler is really weird, I'm not surprised it had trouble with it.

[NathanKell]

Mass matters when seeing how a given drag force (in newtons) gets converted to change in velocity. Not in computing the drag force.

[tmikesecrist3]

yeah the problem I was haveing was with the Redstone not the atlas... the Atlas is really nice and stable hardly a wobble at all

[frizzank]

[NathanKell]

Ooh!

Speaking of cameras...since you made Agena, you might as well make its most famous other use. Especially since you already made KH-10.

[tmikesecrist3]

Agena, wastent that planed to have gemini dock with it?

any one have any thoughts if the will one do give us a VAB big enough to build a satern v rocket? I sure hope so.... if not maybe that can be taken care of by a modder?

Edited January 5, 2014 by tmikesecrist3
adding more thoughts....

[frizzank]

It is a separate part, it can go on anything. I just stuck it on agena for a demo.

[Deltac]

Agena, wastent that planed to have gemini dock with it?

any one have any thoughts if the will one do give us a VAB big enough to build a satern v rocket? I sure hope so.... if not maybe that can be taken care of by a modder?

Welcome to the forums, noobie! Firstly, yes, the Agena and Gemini in this pack dock with each other. It's up to you to not crash them together... or to do just that, it's up to you.

Secondly, the current VAB is actually bigger than the previous VAB, and can indeed allow for a Saturn V to be built. Look for Novapunch for custom building the Saturn V, and go here for a Saturn V replica. You will have to make your own LEM and CEM as no one has made a nicely detailed version of either.

[tmikesecrist3]

I have the apallo mission pack and that has the full size satern five 300 feet tall and all but the first stage fits in the vab lol though that one may e to large....

[tmikesecrist3]

though now that I think about it you dont need a full size Satern V do you since the scale of kerbal is not the same as earth....

[NathanKell]

Protip: payload fraction for KSP rocket hovers around 16%. Payload fraction for real rocket is about 2%. It takes about 10x as much rocket in real life.