Measurement Units of KSP

[astroadrian99]

Hey I am making a liquid engine for ksp and was wondering what units does KSP use (lb of force or Newtons, lb or g or kg, meters or feet). Stuff like that an please can you answer quickly because I have to be very scale becaouse it is for a School Project due Friday.

-Thanks For the help.

[astropapi1]

"Addon Releases and Projects Showcase".

Do you have anything to show?

[astroadrian99]

sorry posted it in the wrong one was just going to tranfer this one figurine out how.

[rebelcommando1807]

For the question, use the metric system. It's what's native for KSP because.. Well, it's what's (supposed to be) native to any space program.

That, and the imperial system is very, very wonky. This is coming from someone who grew up with the thing.

[astroadrian99]

ok thanks and one thing does KSP use for thrust Newtons or something else and for weight does it use grams, kilograms, etc.

[cy-one]

Yes and yes. Or more tons than grams

[Starwaster]

The only thing (measurement-wise) that's out of place is resource volume where apparently 1 resource unit is 6.25 liters or 160 units is 1 cubic meter. (or 1000 liters)

[Greys]

Thrust is measured in kiloNewtons, distance is measured in meters, mass is measured in (metric)tons, ISP is measured in seconds, and the volume density of resources depends entirely on the resource you're looking at.

LF/O has an average density of approximately 170-180u/m^3 but as low as 130~u/m^3 (Oscar and as high as 204u/m^3 (FL-T400). Ignoring the Oscar B, because it's stupid, the average as of 0.20.2 was 187.6672 units per cubic meter

RCS has an average of 151.45u/m^3, Xenon only had one measurable container at the time and it was 11841.88u/m^3.

electric charge had a standard deviation of twenty two times it's minimum density, and half of it's maximum density, so do whatever you want., but weight wise it is consistently 0.0001 ton per unit of electricCharge, which you do have to account for because electricCharge itself, unlike other resources, is weightless. Effectively that's the weight of the battery to contain one unit.

(min 212.2, max 10380.9, std dev 4452.5)