Hey Joe! Family Team Hawk

[NSG]

Cool

 

[Cresign]

Altaïr this one's for you
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Meet Diamant BP4. The French satellite launch vehicle that was the first non-American, non-Russian SLV. Fundamentally the establishment of the ESA before there was the ESA. 21.6m tall, 1.34m in diameter excluding its fins. Let's give it a whirl, shall we?

I did this in realistic because in normal mode you don't even stage before reaching orbit. In realistic it's spot-on.
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Measure/launch stand. Let's get this baby from 1975 flying!
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Au revoir, la gravité.
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Quelle belle fille...
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Bonsoir, ciel étoilé!

The two upper stages are solid motors, so no switching off. I forgot to fill the satellite's tank, but that's fine for purposes of this demo. Altie, I hope you like this, because I loved this!

Mooncrasher I have a few missions awaiting approval no hurry, just notifying you.

Cool little rokit, i remember making Diamant myself with the help of Marmilo

 

[It's all about FAMILY]

I remember seeing it. It's an awesome little rocket.

 

[Marmilo]

Cool little rokit, i remember making Diamant myself with the help of Marmilo

Good old times when I was the one trying to get you to bp edit...
Now it's kinda flipped, as I'm focusing on noclip vanilla

 

[It's all about FAMILY]

Good old times when I was the one trying to get you to bp edit...
Now it's kinda flipped, as I'm focusing on noclip vanilla

Basically: "Let's pretend this is 1.4" Truly, editing was the exception back then rather than the rule. Because editing generally caused such havoc in rocket functionality that it was simply not worth the investment of time and effort.

 

[Pink]

Gently she touches down, with a bit more of a margin this time:
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Now a sloooooooooow trip to rejoin.
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Timewarp had the refueller shift left... goody, more old bugs we have been making peace with for the last 4&1/2 years...
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... Not a small shift, but ok...
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... Fly, my little bird...
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... go. Go forget gravity.

I can’t be bothered to look at the recreation bc that is not in the amount of time i have but the shuttle looks good, i think you need to include a bp photo of atlas though

Oh I must have forgotten. Coming up.

Edit:
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Here we go.

Badge given for shuttle and atlas, I'll take a look at recreation when I can get on PC.

 

[It's all about FAMILY]

Badge given for shuttle and atlas, I'll take a look at recreation when I can get on PC.

Also reusability, the Shuttle was a double whammy.

 

[Pink]

Ah, true.
Looking at it again, there's no picture of second flight payload deployment. But I'm sure it was able to occur, lol. Badge given.

 

[Marmilo]

Basically: "Let's pretend this is 1.4" Truly, editing was the exception back then rather than the rule. Because editing generally caused such havoc in rocket functionality that it was simply not worth the investment of time and effort.

1.4, those were good times

 

[Cresign]

Good old times when I was the one trying to get you to bp edit...
Now it's kinda flipped, as I'm focusing on noclip vanilla

I remember the time when i thought i'll never get into it... What a fool i was, but it made sense for me to think this way, clipping made bp editing much much easier... It made everything much much easier lol

 

[It's all about FAMILY]

Ah, true.
Looking at it again, there's no picture of second flight payload deployment. But I'm sure it was able to occur, lol. Badge given.

Dangit... Thanks for that. Yeah I really assumed that since the original parameters were in every way identical to those of the relaunch, there's no point posting that detail.

 

[It's all about FAMILY]

Mercury done. Coming up in less than 3 hours (low data...) I don't remember it being such a calm affair.

 

[It's all about FAMILY]

Off we go to the Graveyard. Been a while.

Setting up for the most efficient Mercury encounter possible via Venus.

And below Venus we drop.

Nearly there

One more...

And fire!
Well, we do leave again, so that makes this an assist rather than a capture. only took off 350-ish m/s... you know me, right? anything for one more gravity assist XD

 

[It's all about FAMILY]

An easy capture second time around.

Straight into a landing!

And there we have it. All Teams completed. This last landing was so calm. I don't remember it being this easy.

 

[GSP]

Gravity Assists are great! They can save fuel and stuff!

 

[Pink]

Altaïr this one's for you
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Meet Diamant BP4. The French satellite launch vehicle that was the first non-American, non-Russian SLV. Fundamentally the establishment of the ESA before there was the ESA. 21.6m tall, 1.34m in diameter excluding its fins. Let's give it a whirl, shall we?

I did this in realistic because in normal mode you don't even stage before reaching orbit. In realistic it's spot-on.
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Measure/launch stand. Let's get this baby from 1975 flying!
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Au revoir, la gravité.
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Quelle belle fille...
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Bonsoir, ciel étoilé!

The two upper stages are solid motors, so no switching off. I forgot to fill the satellite's tank, but that's fine for purposes of this demo. Altie, I hope you like this, because I loved this!

Mooncrasher I have a few missions awaiting approval no hurry, just notifying you.

hmm, the overall height is correct, but it seems as though you gave too much length to the first stage, and not enough to the second stage?
I'd say that the top of the first stage ought to be at least a meter lower (move that length to the second stage).

 

[It's all about FAMILY]

hmm, the overall height is correct, but it seems as though you gave too much length to the first stage, and not enough to the second stage?
I'd say that the top of the first stage ought to be at least a meter lower (move that length to the second stage).

Here's what I used, as you can see that 2nd stage is short, and it just has a lot of interstage length beneath it.

 

[Pink]

Hmm, fair enough. Looks like it's all in order according to that, badge granted.

 

[It's all about FAMILY]

Thanks. Only the killer waiting

 

[GSP]