Project Snowy Wind

[The Dark in the Light]

I like the look of the engines:

And we have achieved orbit without sapping any fuel from the payload and with fuel to spare. Horus Lupercal Thanks mate!

 

[Horus Lupercal]

You're welcome man.

 

[The Dark in the Light]

Now I'm working on a booster to take the fuel reserve to Mars.

And after too long of messing around with orbits, the booster has docked with the fuel reserve. I'm tempted to refuel the 2nd stage that's still attached. The booster has five Frontiers, weighs 273.54t and has a TWR of 1.10.

 

[The Dark in the Light]

Well, I didn't need a refuel. I still can't believe that I just moved 300t+ to Mars. Horus Lupercal I can't thank you enough for the help!

Next up, the station itself.

 

[Horus Lupercal]

Well, I didn't need a refuel. I still can't believe that I just moved 300t+ to Mars. @Horus Lupercal I can't thank you enough for the help!

Any time dude. You do some really good work around here and more than happy to supply a tweak or a nudge for your vehicles.

 

[The Dark in the Light]

I have the station complete and will send it to Mars soon. Just gonna modify TSR a bit so I can be sure that it makes it to Mars without a refuel.

 

[The Dark in the Light]

I have the station complete and will send it to Mars soon. Just gonna modify TSR a bit so I can be sure that it makes it to Mars without a refuel.
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Forgot to mention, I made minor alterations to the station such as how the solar panels look (part clipping) and the fairings on the end of the station with a docking part clipped in. I hope that's alright.

 

[The Dark in the Light]

I've got the space station in LEO, and will refuel before heading to Mars.

 

[The Dark in the Light]

Now my rocket has my standard color scheme!

Now it's in LEO, in a 50km * 50km orbit. I'll dock TSR to the fuel tank and refuel before heading out to Mars.

 

[Loxy]

I like the engine style

 

[The Dark in the Light]

I like the engine style

Thanks! What do you think of the entire extended project?

 

[Milanesa]

oh god this is epic

 

[The Dark in the Light]

oh god this is epic

Thanks mate! I'll be doing some more work over the next little bit, although it's pretty much midnight over here. Stay tuned!

 

[The Dark in the Light]

Thanks mate! I'll be doing some more work over the next little bit, although it's pretty much midnight over here. Stay tuned!

So it turns out on piece of faring on the station came off, likely when I jettisoned the fairings covering the station. I've redesigned it and will be sending up a new station, ending the faulty one's mission.

 

[The Dark in the Light]

After some testing I've changed up the engine style of the first stage, making it more efficient.

Liftoff!

Booster separation:

Second stage separated:

Fairings jettisoned!

Reached LEO:

Previous tests showed that when I reached LEO, I had in the ballpark of 50% fuel left. This time it's 32%, and I can attribute that to poor route planning. But nonetheless, the station has made it to LEO and will dock with the fuel tank shortly.

 

[Horus Lupercal]

I can attribute that to poor route planning

Yeah, you want to be much more aggressive with the gravity turn once the boosters have gone and get up some speed for the second stage come off.

You'll loose less to gravity losses and having to be nose up as much during second stage flight

 

[The Dark in the Light]

Yeah, you want to be much more aggressive with the gravity turn once the boosters have gone and get up some speed for the second stage come off.

You'll loose less to gravity losses and having to be nose up as much during second stage flight

Okay, thanks!

 

[The Dark in the Light]

It seems that the landing leg has fazed into the ground during testing...

 

[The Dark in the Light]

Here's the start of my new shuttle:

It seems that I forgot to add a probe/capsule...

 

[The Dark in the Light]

Here's the start of my new shuttle:
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It seems that I forgot to add a probe/capsule...

I can't remember how to build a working door. Can I get some help?

 

[Soyuzturtle]

I can't remember how to build a working door. Can I get some help?

Make sure one end of the moving part of your fairing is not touching anything ( so it can deploy ).
Then on the other end of that fairing half you need a hinge.

For a hinge , I usually have a small wheel connected directly to the fairing. Then get the smallest fairing piece and the smallest fairing nosecone before BP editing them both to 0.6 wide and 0.5 tall. Chuck the nosecone on the top half of the wheel and the fairing on the bottom half.

Not sure if that made sense but tell me if you work it out.

 

[Blazer Ayanami]

Here's the start of my new shuttle

Not a bad jet, dude.

I can't remember how to build a working door. Can I get some help?

Hopefully, my tutorial still works:
A tutorial on shuttle payload doors in SFS 1.5

 

[The Dark in the Light]

I'm having a little trouble with this part of the door. In theory this should work but not so much in practice, though I suspect that I'm doing something wrong.

 

[Mars Pathfinder]

I'm having a little trouble with this part of the door. In theory this should work but not so much in practice, though I suspect that I'm doing something wrong.
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What's the view near the butt? Maybe it's lock in there?

 

[The Dark in the Light]

What's the view near the butt? Maybe it's lock in there?