[1.12.X] Tantares - Stockalike Soyuz and MIR [28][15.02.2025][Mars Expedition]

[hugoraider]

  On 5/16/2024 at 6:42 PM, Beale said:

Awesome!

 

 

https://github.com/Tantares/TantaresLV

RD-58 engine. You might notice the hasty last minute addition of gimbals.

 

BEFORE being politely informed it gimballed, you were going to get boattails, will have to think if I can do this another way:

 

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Woohoo! Now Buran has it engines! Btw, is a bare mount version planned?

[ArgentBlue]

  On 5/16/2024 at 6:42 PM, Beale said:

Awesome!

 

 

https://github.com/Tantares/TantaresLV

RD-58 engine. You might notice the hasty last minute addition of gimbals.

 

BEFORE being politely informed it gimballed, you were going to get boattails, will have to think if I can do this another way:

 

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I remember that RMM and BDB have boattails that include flexible thermal blanket sections, perhaps adding a flexible segment with the same diameter between the two boattail sizes with only the fixed segment varying would help?

[Zyfle]

  On 5/16/2024 at 8:16 AM, AliceChristina said:

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What parts did you use for the propulsion module umbilical and the little "dongle" thingies sticking out from the descent module decoupler?

[Beale]

  On 5/16/2024 at 10:25 PM, hugoraider said:

Woohoo! Now Buran has it engines! Btw, is a bare mount version planned?

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Might do for a few engines yeah.

  On 5/17/2024 at 3:27 PM, ArgentBlue said:

I remember that RMM and BDB have boattails that include flexible thermal blanket sections, perhaps adding a flexible segment with the same diameter between the two boattail sizes with only the fixed segment varying would help?

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Definitely an option, for Blok-D it's more that the real thing has a cowling, a rigid one, that would be nice. Will be an engine mount part if I do it.

 

 

 

If only you knew how silly things really are.

[Minmus Taster]

  On 5/17/2024 at 9:33 PM, Beale said:

Might do for a few engines yeah.

Definitely an option, for Blok-D it's more that the real thing has a cowling, a rigid one, that would be nice. Will be an engine mount part if I do it.

 

 

 

If only you knew how silly things really are.

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What even is that? It's giving me War of the Worlds vibes.

[Blufor878]

  On 5/17/2024 at 9:33 PM, Beale said:

Might do for a few engines yeah.

Definitely an option, for Blok-D it's more that the real thing has a cowling, a rigid one, that would be nice. Will be an engine mount part if I do it.

 

 

 

If only you knew how silly things really are.

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You know it's gonna be good when the parts mod goes into proposal/hypothetical/obscure territory.

[The Dressian Exploder]

 

  On 5/17/2024 at 9:33 PM, Beale said:

If only you knew how silly things really are.

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Oh my, what a strange, beautiful contraption! Careful now, or people will start asking for Uragan! (wink wink nudge nudge)

Edited May 18, 2024 by The Dressian Exploder

[Davi SDF]

  On 5/17/2024 at 9:33 PM, Beale said:

 

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Is that what they call "The Soviet Onion"?

[Beale]

Actually unrelated to Tantares this one,

It will come to the other mod here eventually:

But, for now, you can alsom grab it here:

https://github.com/Tantares/MesbinEx

 

 

[Beale]

Tantares 27.0 For KSP 1.12.5

https://github.com/Tantares/Tantares/releases/tag/v27.0

This Update:

• Revamped the VA.
• New generic adapter parts.
• Deprecated old soyuz parts.

VA
"Big-V" / The man who sold the world / Solid VA
TKS

Adapters

[Entr8899]

@Beale Is there any chance the cream-colored metallic bits of the Mir core module parts, and the various parts of the Kvant-1 module, could be changed to cream-colored thermal blankets, and the "yellow" paint option changed to grey thermal blankets? It would be more accurate to real life (as they were thermal blankets IRL) and it would give the parts more synergy with the FGB parts (and the grey thermal blankets would give the parts synergy with the Salyut parts).

Maybe, in the near future, some other misc greebles too, like the external experiments and other stuff on the exterior of Kvant-1?

Edit, pardon my sloppy editing skills, here is a photo of what I mean, with the thermal blankets highlighted -

Edited May 18, 2024 by Entr8899

[Beale]

  On 5/18/2024 at 9:17 PM, Entr8899 said:

@Beale Is there any chance the cream-colored metallic bits of the Mir core module parts, and the various parts of the Kvant-1 module, could be changed to cream-colored thermal blankets, and the "yellow" paint option changed to grey thermal blankets? It would be more accurate to real life (as they were thermal blankets IRL) and it would give the parts more synergy with the FGB parts (and the grey thermal blankets would give the parts synergy with the Salyut parts).

Maybe, in the near future, some other misc greebles too, like the external experiments and other stuff on the exterior of Kvant-1?

Edit, pardon my sloppy editing skills, here is a photo of what I mean, with the thermal blankets highlighted -

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This is something I would really like to do, but also is a massive project tbh. I can't promise anything anytime soon.

[The Dressian Exploder]

  On 5/18/2024 at 7:42 PM, Beale said:

Tantares 27.0 For KSP 1.12.5

https://github.com/Tantares/Tantares/releases/tag/v27.0

This Update:

• Revamped the VA.
• New generic adapter parts.
• Deprecated old soyuz parts.

VA
"Big-V" / The man who sold the world / Solid VA
TKS

Adapters

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Are the Proton, Blok-D and R-7 revamps included in this update or are they still being worked on?

[ArgentBlue]

  On 5/18/2024 at 12:03 PM, Beale said:

Actually unrelated to Tantares this one,

It will come to the other mod here eventually:

But, for now, you can alsom grab it here:

https://github.com/Tantares/MesbinEx

 

 

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Not sure if they're still in development but I might as well ask since there in the screenshot, are the landing legs supposed to be included in this release?

[The Dressian Exploder]

Those landing legs are (Re)stock landing legs clipped into the lander can, if I'm not mistaken.

[ArgentBlue]

  On 5/19/2024 at 8:52 AM, The Dressian Exploder said:

Those landing legs are (Re)stock landing legs clipped into the lander can, if I'm not mistaken.

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Oh sorry, thank you

[Beale]

  On 5/19/2024 at 6:42 AM, The Dressian Exploder said:

Are the Proton, Blok-D and R-7 revamps included in this update or are they still being worked on?

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They will be in TantaresLV when that updates (not yet). I expect the Proton will release first as I nearly have that finished.

[The Dressian Exploder]

I have been very responisble with this new lander can part

[CardZLol]

  On 5/19/2024 at 6:42 AM, The Dressian Exploder said:

Are the Proton, Blok-D and R-7 revamps included in this update or are they still being worked on?

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R7 Revamp will probably take a while longer, i havent been having much time.
In the meantime any parts that i do finish are being placed on the TantaresLV github, and can already be used

Edited May 19, 2024 by CardZLol

[Whirligig Girl]

  On 5/18/2024 at 12:03 PM, Beale said:

Actually unrelated to Tantares this one,

It will come to the other mod here eventually:

But, for now, you can alsom grab it here:

https://github.com/Tantares/MesbinEx

 

 

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Some images of the MSB-25 "Globe" in its natural habitat.

And the beloved supermassive airless whirligig world it is a "globe" of.

[Jenyam]

Land & Sea

[GoldForest]

What was the spacecraft/Service module and launch vehicle for the Big-VA? 

Was it just TKS with an adapter on top of a Proton like normal? 

[Beale]

  On 5/20/2024 at 8:26 AM, GoldForest said:

What was the spacecraft/Service module and launch vehicle for the Big-VA? 

Was it just TKS with an adapter on top of a Proton like normal? 

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Unfortunately I have nothing for this one, would be interested to know, though.

It ends up at the right size to launch directly on top of the fat part of a DOS module, but I have no evidence for that unfortuantely.

[GoldForest]

  On 5/20/2024 at 9:52 AM, Beale said:

Unfortunately I have nothing for this one, would be interested to know, though.

It ends up at the right size to launch directly on top of the fat part of a DOS module, but I have no evidence for that unfortuantely.

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Hmmm. So, it was just a test article with no service module or launch vehicle drawn up? 

Hmmm. @Pappystein You're a plethora of knowledge. Anything in your vault about Big VA?

[MashAndBangers]

  On 5/20/2024 at 10:20 AM, GoldForest said:

Hmmm. @Pappystein You're a plethora of knowledge. Anything in your vault about Big VA?

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On today's episode of Rockets and Space Exploration with Pappystein, Pappystein invades the Soviet archives to uncover any information on Big VA.  But will Pappystein escape the KGB Zombies?  Stay tuned!