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[1.0.4] BoxSat vA.02f - Updated 09/16/2015


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Which days & time are you more likely to watch a BoxSat development stream on Twitch?  

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  1. 1. Which days & time are you more likely to watch a BoxSat development stream on Twitch?

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don't mind me, but doesn't that need to be a bit smaller?

During planning, we had tested all the way down to 10cm cubes in KSP, but decided the smallest we could go for now to get the assembly function we wanted to implement was 62.5cm. We'll probably make a 10cm BoxSat someday, but that's so small in KSP that it'll have to be a 1-2 part satellite, which might be too boring. Although we based a lot of the design off of cube sats, ultimately this turned out to be an exercise in modular, serviceable satellites instead. :)

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This is pretty neat! I was thinking something like this would surface sooner or later!

With respect to the 10cm idea... I seem to recall that there was an old version of RT that had a single piece satellite with everything, fuel, engine, command, etc...

In the spirit of basing your designs off of CubeSats, couldn't you make some sort of launcher? That way, you could send up a bunch of the 10cm satellites, and release them as you reach their intended orbit!

Kind of like the satellite launcher on the ISS, see here http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/kiboexp/jssod/

But, other than those suggestions, marvelous job!

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I just got visions of sending up a crew of kerbals to replace outdated parts in a science satellite. The possibilities for this mod is endless

That was the idea behind it :)

Now just imagine your satellites already in orbit, but the mod gets updated with new parts - no need to decom' the satellite, just fly up and put the new part on!

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Can the second version 0.2 be antennas? I would LOVE them for my RT2 sat network.

Looks really cool guys, I love modular stuff and really looking forward to playing around with this.

Not to rush you but is TAC support for universal storage finished?

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Not to rush you but is TAC support for universal storage finished?

It will be within 6 days, we can only work so fast outside other commitments.

Keeping on topic, this mod is beautiful! KSP needs more fiddly little parts :)

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This is a wonderful mod. I can't wait to see where it will ago there is alot of potential for it. This combined with Cactye and a station building mod you can create a very nice little space program. Well done!

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Any chance to include Repair Panel and other parts from Mission Controller 2 mod?

We could examine functionality for that, but I think the best bet for now would be the random failures mod called "Dang It!", which I think assigns a failure probability to categories of parts, so it might work without any additional modification to BoxSat, but I'm not sure of that yet. We're already running a lot of supported, but not required mods. Our plans are to fully develop our features for the currently supported ones before moving on to new ones.

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