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[1.12.X] Tantares - Stockalike Soyuz and MIR [16.1][28.05.2024][Mars Expedition WIP]


Beale

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Perfect!

Link on the front page appended, many thanks :)

Awesome! I have become Tantares approved. :cool:

Here is my semi-accurate Proton launcher with my semi-accurate full Salyut 6 sub-assembly on top. I attached the Tantares V-N6 hub so it's ready for expansion! Just add Progress, Soyuz, or etc. and your Mir or ISS station awaits. Instructions on how to fly:

  1. The full Salyut is heavy, so the Proton will probably only get you to a low (100-200m) orbit. Fly the ALV-A booster first stage to 25m then start gradually rotating east to achieve an equatorial orbit. You should hit the 90 degree mark at your apoapsis.
  2. Burn what's left of the first stage, decouple it, and fire up the B second stage. You may be able to reach orbit with this second stage alone. However, you will most likely need the C third stage.
  3. Equalise your orbit. Decouple the C third stage.
  4. Use the Capella to fine tune. Decouple the Capella if/when you need to use the docking port that is at the bottom of the Salyut station. There are two small monopropellant boosters at the bottom for future corrections.
  5. Send up a Soyuz and stick it on the top or bottom!

PS: I can replicate the Salyut's double tiered fairing with Procedural fairings, but it adds 4 extra/unnecessary parts. Is it worth it just for the look?

PPS for forum rules: License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. (Hopefully that covers the board requirements of including a license.)

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I have been experimenting with Russian style maintainance towers for my R-7 style rockets using Infernal Robotics

WKoSbgQ.jpg

Not a very streamlined design, but it looks close enough:D

3OPJkMH.png

Retracting the maintainance gantries

LN2aCcx.png

I think these are for holding the rocket down while the engines build up, but I retracted them anyway:P

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Liftoff! This mission was just a test of the missile and carried what is supposed to represent a dummy nuclear warhead. For some reason, the core engine on the R-7 shut down with about a third of the fuel left. I was able to restart it by switching to booster mode, but I couldn't get it to reignite in core mode.

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I have been experimenting with Russian style maintainance towers for my R-7 style rockets using Infernal Robotics

http://i.imgur.com/WKoSbgQ.jpg

Not a very streamlined design, but it looks close enough:D

http://i.imgur.com/3OPJkMH.png

Retracting the maintainance gantries

http://i.imgur.com/LN2aCcx.png

I think these are for holding the rocket down while the engines build up, but I retracted them anyway:P

http://i.imgur.com/3980n6t.png

Liftoff! This mission was just a test of the missile and carried what is supposed to represent a dummy nuclear warhead. For some reason, the core engine on the R-7 shut down with about a third of the fuel left. I was able to restart it by switching to booster mode, but I couldn't get it to reignite in core mode.

That is awesome! The launchpad looks totally gorgeous. :)

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Just curious, but how is your Soyuz an improvement over my Soyuz?

I would not claim that mine was an improvement; I think that your Soyuz is the definitive edition. You set the standard for excellence. :)

Rjtaml requested a craft file that did not have struts from the KW Rocketry add on. He could not open your craft file because he did not have that add on. That's why I posted my Soyuz. I also posted my Proton+Salyut because I've been launching stations using the Proton and Salyut parts since Beale posted the beta files for the new Proton a couple of days ago.

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Rjtaml requested a craft file that did not have struts from the KW Rocketry add on. He could not open your craft file because he did not have that add on. That's why I posted my Soyuz. I also posted my Proton+Salyut because I've been launching stations using the Proton and Salyut parts since Beale posted the beta files for the new Proton a couple of days ago.

Shoot, those little struts. I haven't gotten around to that. Will do now.

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Please stop posting random off topic stuff promoting yourself in a totally unrelated thread. It isn't healthy for the whole community to have to put up with you trying to get attention.

Um, you're actually off base on this one, considering both Darth and Beale have a common interest in designing Russian spacecraft.

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Oh I saw you wanted to make a MAKS. need a 3d model for art?

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1417259/kerbal/MAKS.png

good lord, where did you get that behemoth?

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Thanks for this update Beale! :D

I made .cfgs for these to work with RealFuels if anyone's interested:

http://www./download/vbd89s3ekjnos6k/Tantares_tanks.cfg

http://www./download/h3bv6tfiy4lli1r/TantaresLV_tanks.cfg

You also need this for the engines to work:

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/81239-Stockalike-RF-Engine-Configs-v2-0-6-11-26-14/

EDIT: Fixed TantaresLV.cfg

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Beale, the N-IM actually does fly! ^^

http://imgur.com/a/SWjb#0

(Sure, it needs a couple 12kN linear RCS thrusters to keep it in-line, but I think that's perfectly fine for a 5200 ton rocket. Especially one made in such an unconventional way...)

I see, you can not into imgur albums.

At first you need the last letters (Or numbers) in your album link. For example: http://imgur.com/a/SWjbj#0 -> SWjbj

And then put this between two tags: [ imgur]SWjbj[ /imgur]

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I have read the story, and I can't wait to read the rest of it! It makes me want to try to recreate my own Object D.

Thanks! Glad you liked it. For me it's a bit unusual to write in English. :)

And for the object D, I think, the most difficult are those curved antennas on the sides. :)

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