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[Collection] Kosmos Spacecraft Design Bureau (SSPP 4.1 6/12/12)


Normak

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This stuff keeps getting away from me, but rest assured I haven\'t disappeared again. Cardboard, I\'m sorry about the limited contact lately. I\'ll be back soon.

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give me details and pics and I will think about them :D

Single-chamber RD-858 + two-chamber RD-859 - descent/ascent engine cluster of LK:

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If I did not have exams soon, I would have went to the museum and took pictures myself :)

If you\'ll decide to make it, I think it would be enough to make only the external part - after all the engine must be protected from the lunar dust.

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If you want to do a landing engine, this is what the Blok E engine of the LK Lander looked like:

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It was used for both landing (the LK Lander used a Blok D module for most of the descent, and then dropped it and used the Blok E for the final descent) and takeoff. It left only the landing gear platform on the ground.

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There are lots of detailed pictures of the LK Lander here:

http://www.astronautix.com/craft/lk.htm

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Well, you\'ve got the CM, a tapered fuel tank, the ascent engine and it\'s lander 'gantry'. I\'d say, make the landing engine 1m, the fuel tank 1m to 0.75m, turn the greebles into SAS/ASAS/Mechjeb and find where that thing has RCS tank and thrusters, and it should come out pretty modular. If the radial RCS tank would be side-attachable, everything that\'d not be fully modular would be the legs part, which would have to go directly on the engine.

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The LK had one main engine (the central nozzle) and one backup (with 2 chambers, the 2 nozzles on each side). If all went well, the 2 side nozzles didn\'t fire.

The RCS thrusters were above the crew module in the upper segment, just below the docking plate.

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The LK didn\'t have a proper docking mechanism, just a contact plate with lots of little holes that the LOK (the modified Soyuz that served as a command module) could catch on to, a bit like velcro. This system saved weight as it didn\'t need any of the heavy docking equipment that was used on Soyuz. Then, the single cosmonaut transferred between the LK and the LOK by EVA.

The landing legs part would have to be a conical decoupler (that would go from 1m to 0.75 if you follow Dragon\'s idea) with 7 holes in the bottom for the Blok E engine nozzles and deployable legs attached on the side. Plenty of work :)

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I believe that LK-700 is more suitable for this pack. Direct-landing scheme, and it was designed by the same company as TKS and Almaz.

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But for now the question is only about a landing engine, and that one from LK is good too. (And I actually can not find a single picture of LK-700 landing engine).

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That does seem much more fitting, but I can\'t find any more info on it. Strange, it\'s not even mentioned on Wiki.

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I am aware it is not how the Engine actually is. but what would you all think if i made the engine chamber tilted to the side?

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/images/rockets/gslv/kvd1_scale_1.jpg

also, it seems I can delete the need for inverters as you can rotate parts now :D

there are a lot of changes but i am getting kosmos up to speed with.

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hmm it is a neat engine but think i will go with the KVD-1 looking one i have whatcha thing?

Welp I finished the plumbing. Here I color coded it :D It is actually the most accurate fuel system with booster pumps I have done yet lol. should make for a nice short little lander engine. I think it is like 0.4m in height. in the end it should be ~3000-3500 polies.

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