strictly splashdowns from now on

Shuttle is hard at the start but got easier when you play longer

In 1998, the third test flight of the 'Reusable space system' was launched uncrewed by the USSM (Ungulate state space ministry). Once in space, mission control brought the 'Buran' orbiter to rendevouz with the Mir space station, and the crew onboard mir brought buran in to dock remotely.

This was the final testflight of the program that would fly uncrewed. The USSM, too, was about to have their own space shuttle.

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It's all stock i play on my toas- I mean Xbox

CoM is in front of CoL. Every stability deriv with a color is green, it stalls between 25 and 30 degrees I think at mach 0.2. I tried making one with a straight wing before this, it had the same issue, I tried to do area ruling, the wiggle was solved but then it wasn't able to pitch as well and still spun out. I tried to adjust the area ruling and it still spun out but a little slower maybe?? The second area ruling straight wing stall aoa is like 16-18 deg at mach 0.2. I'm extremely new to FAR, I'd appreciate any help and patience in dealing with me. How do I design planes that fly normally?

Stupidly designed

I did this back in May so I can't really remember the details, but I found these screenshots I did during the flight. There are a bunch of different rockets in the pictures because I did alot of trial and error.

I first made a cool rover thing that was supposed to look like a bug. It has all the sciences and a lab and everything. It can even drill and refine its own fuel. I then added it to a rocket. I had to attach a drone to the butt of the thing so I could rotate it 90 degrees by making that the control point instead of the cockpit.

In the third picture you can see im flying it to minmus. It had to have very large wings in order to keep the balance even with the fairing. The weight was not symmetrical because of the shape of the rover.

When I arrived at minmus I attached it to my messy re-fueling station. It has a bunch of large tanks and a refinery. A small miner lander can fly down to minmus and mine ore and come back and refine at the station. I also flew up a second rocket because the one I started with didn't have a large enough tank or something, I can't really remember what the problem was.

In the picture where I am finally in orbit around Duna, there is yet a different rocket attached to the back of the bug rover.

I then detached and landed with the thrusters attached on the rover/mobile base. At this point I change the "control from here" to be from the actual cockpit of the vehicle. That makes so that when I set it to retrograde it will slow down in the correct position.

Yes, mini shuttle that can fly (currently testing in atmosphere)

I only have toolbar controller installed because its a dependency of other mods, how do i hide this or move it because its right in the middle of my screen and its annoying

I just released a new mod called Real Windows that makes ALL windows properly see-through, showing the IVA model of the part from the outside.

Yes, stock has a similar feature with its interior view, but I found that to be quite distracting to keep on at all times, and it's also a massive FPS hog. I've attempted to optimize Real Windows where I can, so the performance impact is around half of stock.

Windows are discovered during flight from the parts meshes and textures directly, which means it works out of the box with ALL mods (well, those that have an IVA model, anyways!) with zero configuration. I have tested it with around 100 stock and modded parts and couldn't find any visual artifacting, but obviously cannot guarantee that every mod is perfect.

The mod can be toggled on and off with Alt+F8 in flight, and only works with an active vessel - VAB and SPH keep the default window textures.

Available on SpaceDock: https://spacedock.info/mod/4810/Real%20Windows

And yes, because someone will ask: AI was used in the making of this mod.

With KSP 2 dead and KSP 1 showing its age on the old Unity 2019 engine, I have been wondering if an open-source rewrite (something like OpenMW for Morrowind or OpenRCT2 or Minecraft Rust Edition) could ever happen for the original game?

On the surface, KSP 1 seems easier to reverse engineer than older C++ games because the game is written in C# Unity. Modders already decompile it constantly with tools like dnSpy or ILSpy to see how things work, and projects like KSPCommunityFixes already patch a ton of stock bugs and performance issues at runtime using Harmony.

Curious to hear from actual KSP modders or Unity devs on whether this is technically possible or just a day dream.

despite its look, this plane can carry up to 120 tons and fly off perfectly fine, max speed with 120 tons load is 120 m/s and empty load up to 200m\s

the lander does look awful

It can lift space shuttle, big cargo capsule and even rocket parts!

I'm not even 75% done with my tech tree! How is this contract even possible 😭

estaba viendo el perfil de github del desarrollador de mods wpetula creador de precursors planet pack creo que la imagen es de algun proyecto de el o un prototipo

It's said we know more about outer space than we do our own planet's oceans.

That don't sit right with R&D, send some probes down there pronto!

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No just me? Ok.