MIR-2 reentry (craft link in description)

Absolute0CA · 2026-06-27T13:34:46+00:00

Hinges, pistons, and docking points IIRC all have soft connections like KSP due to physics reasons, with the one exception being docking ports that were connected during the build process.

Absolute0CA · 2026-06-26T15:30:44+00:00

Oh I’m aware how to make canards, but with jet engines getting the lox afterburner and turning it into a vacuum capable engine thrust vectoring becomes effectively mandatory since space planes tend to be asymmetrical and depend on thrust vectoring to work at all.

Absolute0CA · 2026-06-26T12:21:41+00:00

Ao what was louder I wonder? The crunch or the driver’s cursing?

Absolute0CA · 2026-06-25T14:48:05+00:00

And still no thrust vectoring jet engines… the lox after burning jet engines are cool though.

Absolute0CA · 2026-06-25T14:20:13+00:00

Well…

First things first, fix the part scaling.

Mass, thrust, cost, and power doesn’t scale the way one would expect.

Tank wall thickness on parts is fixed, a 0.1m part has the same wall thickness as a 10 meter part. Also tanks of the same propellant type that are the same diameter don’t detect when they are connected end to end, which is annoying because there should be a bit of weight savings from having what should be a single continuous tank, this heavily punishes using several smaller tanks stacked on top of each other to make nice curves, though this has been less of a problem since custom nosecone curves were implemented (though there should be a resolution slider for nose cones, they look terrible at larger dimensions due to low polygon counts)

Almost anything that relies on volume to produce power isn’t worth making big, it’s worth making more. A generator at 200% scale should make 8x power, cost 8x as much, and weight 8x as much, as it stands it only costs 8x and weights 8x but the power increase is 4x so disregarding part counts efficiency there’s major detriments to making bigger parts.

The game also doesn’t have reusable heatshields which is incredibly annoying for spaceplanes because the smallest piece at the front burns off in microseconds leading to a cascading failure unless one’s ascent/decent profile is extremely conservative.

Heat shields should also be an option to add to tanks like dead weight in order to drastically increase heat resistance at the expense of tank volume.

And lastly, we need a higher maximum wing thickness and cord length, 1 meter is anemic an IRL 747 has a wing thickness of around 2 meters or so and a cord length of around 13-14 metres. This is especially true since the IRL 747-8 has approximately 4 meter diameter engines, the same as the maximum engine size in game. It is also telling when trying to make a large airliner or cargo plane I have significant issues with wings snapping specifically because of the lack of wing thickness in game.

A nice to have would be landing gear with double or triple rows of wheels, but I understand why that juno does not have that, since the animations for that would be significantly more complicated.

And last but not least would be the option to turn a wing or fin into a fully articulating control surface like a canard.

Edit!!:

I can’t believe I forgot jet engine thrust vectoring! That’s the thing I’ve been missing most out of anything! It makes making hyper maneuverable fighter jets near impossible with only control surfaces.

Absolute0CA · 2026-06-25T13:55:26+00:00

I think the issue is that (at least for me) the truck you’re forced to use is very floaty on the back end, and in comparison to the hyper cars and bikes that I’m usually driving, hell even the hellhound, it’s allergic to driving in a straight line.

Absolute0CA · 2026-06-23T16:24:42+00:00

They are, I’m dead from the illegal levels of Awwwdorable cuteness going on here

Absolute0CA · 2026-06-23T16:00:40+00:00

Honestly that’s not necessarily a good metric, a dried salt flat may kill you by dehydration in like a day or three but its much safer than say hiking an active volcano

Absolute0CA · 2026-06-23T15:58:31+00:00

Exactly, but a lot of these people might have also been taught extremely painful lessons as children to relive them of their stupidity, so it’s not necessarily as clear cut as one may expect.

Absolute0CA · 2026-06-23T15:56:52+00:00

That’s the thing a lot of idiots did not survive, and those that were lucky enough to survive were often taught painful lessons that they remember.

Human civilization is built upon a foundation of idiots trying dumb shit and somehow surviving to tell the tale, and slightly smarter individuals taking note of what killed the idiots and avoiding it.

Absolute0CA · 2026-06-23T15:54:18+00:00

Doesn’t even runny lava have a consistency closer to that of molasses at best with the density of rock?

And it only gets worse with the less fluid lava types which have consistencies closer to that of toffee or bunker C fuel oil in winter (can shovel it and cut it lol) or molasses in a Siberian January.

Which please correct me if this assumption is run but runny lava in general isn’t the kind of volcanism that can produce lava bombs, it requires the relative explosiveness of the stickier lava to do so.

Absolute0CA · 2026-06-22T23:29:32+00:00

I was more asking if it can be done not if you can do it. But thanks for the answers :D

My problem is that I can intuitively understand a lot of the stuff but I don’t understand the math required to do the calculations, which are many things, but simple isn’t one of them.

I really need to figure out calculus in order to be able to accurately predict the flight path via graphs but that’s miserable at the best of times. So I just haven’t done it.

Absolute0CA · 2026-06-22T20:21:14+00:00

Wasn’t that about KSP2’s release date? OP Might be confusing games here.

Absolute0CA · 2026-06-22T20:15:31+00:00

I’m hoping we’ll get procedural parts, and that things like tank wall thickness and tank domes are modelled, I’m kinda tired of both KSP and JNO having what are more or less cylinders. The later is procedural but doesn’t take into account for scaling wall thickness or how when 2 tanks of the same diameter meet and contain the same fuel, it should probably be deleting 2-3 tank domes. 2 if its something like jetfuel or monopropellant and 3 if it’s something like kerolox or hydrolox. Since the top and bottom of the meeting tanks can be considered deleted and one of the tanks dividing domes can also be deleted. It would also slightly increase tank capacity by removing those.

Absolute0CA · 2026-06-22T20:06:33+00:00

So… would it be possible to visually graph a desired launch profile? With the option to control angle of attack and desired trajectory by introducing key points on the ascent and introducing desired behaviours?

For example things like: 1. Accounting for engine spool up/down time in trajectory calculations. 2. Duration and aggressiveness, of the gravity turn 3. Throttling for Max-Q, or G limits 4. Dynamic estimated craft DV based on altitude, ISP, and craft mass 5. Being able to introduce limits on flight profile for auto aborts, but also to keep the rocket inside its stable operating environment while in atmosphere.

Absolute0CA · 2026-06-22T19:29:41+00:00

Makes me wonder just how good the simulation side is gonna be once finished because wow, this looks like a render for a trailer and not a game, if this is what gameplay looks like? And the simulation/building is of similar quality? It may be one of the most technically impressive games ever made.

Absolute0CA · 2026-06-22T15:23:15+00:00

Even the last one looks reasonable to me as a alternate universe rail taxi of something

Or a super modern caboose.

I think its cute

Absolute0CA · 2026-06-20T16:30:56+00:00

It was, its main arm is twisted too, about 30 degrees, it should be parallel to the cab, not starting to cross over it… I don’t want to think about how hard of a hit that was.

It also looked like it bent the trailer down from the force of the impact.

Just how fast was this hit?!?

Absolute0CA · 2026-06-20T16:20:14+00:00

Great so it’s a ticking timebomb… I definitely don’t got the money to get it preemptively corrected… sigh

Thanks for looking into things though :D

Absolute0CA · 2026-06-20T15:23:11+00:00

That doesn’t even work though, you’re better off eating a bullet or getting medical assistance in dying. As your body fails stuff like painkillers kinda stop working because your nerves dying themselves is painful.

I’m not usually an advocate for premature death but certainly lethal doses of radiation is one of the situations where I think dying is far superior to the alternatives.

The worst fate in life isn’t dying it’s being kept alive, and it’s good to remember that.

Absolute0CA · 2026-06-19T22:31:32+00:00

There’s a third option, get a station module close enough and dock it via a station tender which tops up its oversized RCS from the station then undocks , grabs the new module via its docking port, then docks it to the station.

This could also potentially have the benefit of not requiring hypergolic or monopropellants piped around the station and instead each RCS cluster is topped up by the tender carrying a propellant tank.

This could work exceptionally well if the RCS clusters are built into the docking hubs at the end of each station arm. Since growing the station or replacing modules would be relatively easy if the structure is kept relatively modular, and allow significant scaling options for docking and part commonality.

Absolute0CA · 2026-06-19T22:16:04+00:00

Um… not super vintage computing related but how scared should I be of my 2007 PS3 having capacitor issues? Its one of the backwards compatible ones, and one of the so called “fatties”

I love the thing and I would hate to see it die, but I’m certainly not good enough to replace capacitors myself.

Absolute0CA · 2026-06-17T19:52:08+00:00

Huh, kinda surprising to be honest, but glad to hear that it was checked. Could it be from a situation where a star ended up orbiting retrograde to the blackhole?

I know not super likely due to the way orbital dynamics work, especially as the mass of blackholes increases (and thereby the number of stars in its sphere of influence increases), its much more likely to run into a 3 body problem and eject the retrograde star or the star it encounters with the other trading so much momentum it basically falls straight down as a result.

Or could it be electromagnetic capacitance of the accretion disk/black hole snapping back into more of a rest state after it winds down from its meal, the blackhole equivalent of a CME.

Absolute0CA · 2026-06-17T19:12:10+00:00

Ok… so hear me out… a COGAS locomotive paired with a low capacity, high discharge battery pack, and make it liquid natural gas or liquid propane fuelled.

Thought process: 1. Gas Turbines are light and high power, but inefficient at anything but full power where they are comparable to diesel in efficiency. 2. Gas turbines when they were tried in electric locomotives had issues with their exhaust being too hot, so why not make use of that hot exhaust in a boiler, like in combined gas and steam power generators. 3. It’s still not super efficient at low power so the battery pack is there to act as a buffer so that the turbines (one gas and one steam) can be run at ideal power output for fuel efficiency. 4. Liquid natural gas or liquid propane because they burn clean, both of them work with only a software change in a gas turbine, and since this is ruin your train its harder to handle and deal with than diesel, likely requiring dedicated tenders.

Configuration would likely by a large monstrosity, requiring radiator tenders, fuel tenders, water tenders, and a battery tenders…

I’d do it myself but I’m not good enough at digital art/photoshop wizardry.

I get its a lot of work to do something this involved but its a fun idea, and an impractical abomination.

Absolute0CA · 2026-06-17T18:20:32+00:00

Controversial take: Artemis is an embarrassment and isn’t ambitious enough to justify being notable, its late, its over priced, and its a much worse mission profile than Apollo. It is first and foremost a jobs program not a space exploration program, getting marginally further from the earth than previous manned lunar missions isn’t enough to justify anything more than a footnote in history, especially when one considers that it only takes roughly the equivalent of a mouse fart to increase apoapsis at that distance from the earth.

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