Beale Posted July 21, 2019 Author Share Posted July 21, 2019 6 hours ago, PriusMann said: @Beale When your gonna add salyut 7 solar panels? To give a more serious answer, they're interesting and pretty iconic. I would like to enter a slower phase of development on the spacecraft side (now that all is updated to the current standard of art I think). So things like this would be great. The only caveat is that it would probably be one part instead of attachable like IRL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CobaltWolf Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 I love those panels and would enjoy seeing them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beale Posted July 21, 2019 Author Share Posted July 21, 2019 Secret project continues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barzon Posted July 21, 2019 Share Posted July 21, 2019 what could it possibly be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlphaMensae Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 The 1.875m version of the TLV Soyuz on my Soyuz Launch Base: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MangoRises Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 Late to the party but just wanted to say that Energia-Buran is such a fun to fly! It really has a distinct character compared to the American shuttle. And I didn't know that you can see the "Energia" text from IVA seat...! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaderExMachina Posted July 23, 2019 Share Posted July 23, 2019 14 hours ago, MangoRises said: Late to the party but just wanted to say that Energia-Buran is such a fun to fly! It really has a distinct character compared to the American shuttle. And I didn't know that you can see the "Energia" text from IVA seat...! is it a additional mod or part of tantares? wanna try it out, tell me how. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MangoRises Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 6 hours ago, VaderExMachina said: is it a additional mod or part of tantares? wanna try it out, tell me how. The Buran is from Cormorant Aeronology. It flies really well during decent if you deploy body flap inverted. It actually includes the craft file "CA - Petrel Orbiter" to work with Tantares LV. But I built my own following the drawing here: http://spacemodels.nuxit.net/buran/index.html The Energia texture is made by the amazing Drakenex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carni35 Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 Hi everybody ! I play with Tantares parts for a few days (awesome work by the way ) but I have a problem and hope someone here can help me. I play the historical contract pack on a 2.5 scaled solar system and aim at recreate real missions with BDB and Tantares parts. I have now to play the LUNA 9 mission, but I don't understand how make the R-7 (Molniya) enough powerfull for that. The Tantares R-7 was already barrely enough powerfull for Vostok and Voskhod missions. Now, if i put more ergol on the second stage, my first stage is not enough powerfull to reach space (since the four lateral boosters gone, my TWR is under 1). her my craft and my prob : So... Is there something I don't understand ? I have no problem with BDB parts, so, maybe Tantares parts are less overpowered than Bluedog ? (2.5 scaled system is too big ?) Or my craft is just bad ? It's just not possible to reproduce historical missions with these parts ? Sorry for my english, and thank you for your help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CobaltWolf Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 @Carni35 looks like you're missing the Blok L stage. http://www.b14643.de/Spacerockets_1/East_Europe_1/Semyorka/Gallery/Block-L.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carni35 Posted July 24, 2019 Share Posted July 24, 2019 20 minutes ago, CobaltWolf said: @Carni35 looks like you're missing the Blok L stage. http://www.b14643.de/Spacerockets_1/East_Europe_1/Semyorka/Gallery/Block-L.htm Thank your you help ! You are right, I missed the Blok L ^^ But as I said, I can't even go to this step. Since the 4 lateral booster from the first stage are gone, my first stage central booster become out of control and doesn't have enough TWR to take me to the upper atmosphere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MangoRises Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 3 hours ago, Carni35 said: But as I said, I can't even go to this step. Since the 4 lateral booster from the first stage are gone, my first stage central booster become out of control and doesn't have enough TWR to take me to the upper atmosphere I've also recently started playing a scaled up Kerbin. I do feel like the core stage has a low TWR after separation. In real life it should be from around 1 to above 2, here it is 0.8 to 1.3. I've seen another mod balancing the Soyuz by giving boosters more fuel, so the core burns much shorter after separation. I see that you have excessive TWR on first stage, maybe you can lower the booster thrust a little? For control just use the "surface mounted gyro". I also use a different MechJeb ascent trajectory for Tantares R-7 (high flight path angle, high turn shape, aggressive corrective steering when "time to apoapsis" is falling). It would take a 300m/s steering loss but never had problem reaching orbit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baldamundo Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 Couple of observations re balance. Basically the lower stages of Proton seem way overpriced: Proton 1st stage is almost 3x more expensive than Twin Boar, stats mostly only 25% - 50% better. Proton four-engine version is almost 2x more expensive than Twin Boar, thrust about 10% less. and 2x the price of Zenit first stage, despite generally lower stats. Proton 2nd stage - 33% more expensive than Zenit first stage. 3x more expensive than Skipper despite roughly equivalent stats. The upper stage and fuel tanks seem roughly in-line with vanilla prices (fuel tanks and upper stages tbh are negligible in cost compared to lower stages, so the prices don't matter so much). Zenit seems roughly in-line with vanilla prices (maybe slightly too cheap, but not by much). Haven't noticed any other pricing issues that stands out yet. At present there's as far as I can tell basically no reason to use the Proton lower stage parts when you have access to alternatives - they're waaaaaay more expensive for the equivalent thrust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Prates Posted July 25, 2019 Share Posted July 25, 2019 10 minutes ago, baldamundo said: Couple of observations re balance. (...) Got quite the kick when I saw that your profile picture is Sir Arnold from "yes minister"! "A minister with two ideas? I can't remember when we last had one of those." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaderExMachina Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 hey @Beale wanna know about your future plans, maybe fixing us the n1 craft file? and about the sovet spacecrafts, any possibility of adding the venera series? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheesecake Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 1 hour ago, VaderExMachina said: hey @Beale wanna know about your future plans, maybe fixing us the n1 craft file? and about the sovet spacecrafts, any possibility of adding the venera series? ProbesPlus has just a Venera-Probe, optical suitable to Tantares. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooperMNG Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 (edited) My ISS build won't load up because of the missing libra antenna, was it from Tantares (I think so)? If it is, should I stop updating? because I didn't see a "parts removed" section from the update post and now I lost my station for a single antenna missing Edited July 28, 2019 by trooperMNG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golkaidakhaana Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 (edited) 12 hours ago, trooperMNG said: My ISS build won't load up because of the missing libra antenna, was it from Tantares (I think so)? If it is, should I stop updating? because I didn't see a "parts removed" section from the update post and now I lost my station for a single antenna missing I think the Libra antenna was the folding LK antenna, which was depreciated because of the recent LK update. If I were you, I wouldn't stop updating altogether because Beale only has one part set left to revamp, the N1 rocket, and from then on I think we can expect nothing but entirely new additions. Edited July 29, 2019 by golkaidakhaana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooperMNG Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 11 hours ago, sslaptnhablhat said: I think the Libra antenna was the folding LK antenna, which was depreciated because of the recent LK update. If I were you, I wouldn't stop updating altogether because Beale only has one part set left to revamp, the N1 rocket, and from then on I think we can expect nothing but entirely new additions. oh that's nice! Do you happen to know (for what I understand they were deleted) where I can find the most up to date Cygnus parts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golkaidakhaana Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 3 hours ago, trooperMNG said: oh that's nice! Do you happen to know (for what I understand they were deleted) where I can find the most up to date Cygnus parts? No idea, I think Beale accidentally included them in a single development release, but I never tried it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trooperMNG Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 22 hours ago, sslaptnhablhat said: No idea, I think Beale accidentally included them in a single development release, but I never tried it. Nevermind, I found it by using the old tantares available in the main thread. The launcher (PLV I think) is still missing even if I installed it tho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golkaidakhaana Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 It's been quiet here, don't y'all think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Prates Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 9 hours ago, sslaptnhablhat said: It's been quiet here, don't y'all think? 3,6 quietengens. Not great, not terrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlphaMensae Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 Modular Launch Pads v2.0, with the new Soyuz Launch Base, is now out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beale Posted August 2, 2019 Author Share Posted August 2, 2019 Guys I am traveling for work and vacation, expect little updates until ~ September. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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