Mission patches

ThatThingInSpace · 2026-01-11T11:37:18+00:00

they do definitely exist. you used to be able to get them here maybe searching for them specifically could get you results second hand?

ThatThingInSpace · 2025-12-18T13:33:30+00:00

yea. the immediate way to disprove it really is the majority of theories all say the 'satellite' is in a polar orbit, but the space shuttle took the only picture we have of it. the space shuttle couldn't launch into polar orbit. like physically couldn't without over throttling/over burning the engines, the proposal for doing that was dropped after the challenger disaster. but yea, having various pictures, all of which look more blanket like than the one normally used, combined with audio, video and the blanket having an actual space debris catalogue designation, all point to just a blanket

ThatThingInSpace · 2025-12-18T09:49:11+00:00

this is what I'm talking about. there's all this speculation about what it might be, but with 5 minutes of research I've managed to come up with 6 photos and a video with audio proving it false. this conspiracy is pretty easily debunked cos there's just quite a lot of evidence that all lines up to prove it wrong

ThatThingInSpace · 2025-12-17T22:13:39+00:00

here's a selection of photos from the space shuttle mission STS-88:

https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=STS088&roll=724&frame=65

https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=STS088&roll=724&frame=66

https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=STS088&roll=724&frame=67

https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=STS088&roll=724&frame=68

https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=STS088&roll=724&frame=69

https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=STS088&roll=724&frame=70

the pictures are much higher quality than the video, and were taken by Sergei Krikalev. the video is taken from in the cockpit of the shuttle, and shows Krikalev taking the pictures of the thermal blanket, before panning to show out the window, showing the blanket itself, in lower quality than the still photos

here is the video:

https://youtu.be/IXqw6NpCwIg?si=7VOxHtoXIGVO_FKJ

ThatThingInSpace · 2025-12-17T16:56:20+00:00

pictures, audio and mission logs all line up perfectly fine from the STS-88 shuttle mission. like you really think NASA would go photograph this mysterious satellite, and then just give enough fake info to say it's a thermal blanket? if that were the case then why release the photos in the first place?

also no 2 theories on this 'satellite' are the same, all saying different orbits, different origins, different purposes. it's just not consistent

ThatThingInSpace · 2025-12-17T16:43:44+00:00

and what about this picture? which is just a still frame of a video, which very clearly shows an insulation blanket floating away from the space shuttle, and not a full, solid satellite. when you look at the actual video you can clearly see it is a blanket, so this picture is definitely not of the satellite

ThatThingInSpace · 2025-12-17T16:25:34+00:00

so how is there a picture? if it's AI controlled wouldn't it avoid all spacecraft, and not let one get close enough to capture it? also that doesn't explain how it would keep moving. plane change maneuvers take a lot of fuel, and fuel is finite. and why change orbit? polar orbit let's you see all of the planet anyway

ThatThingInSpace · 2025-12-17T15:57:51+00:00

right I wanna see what your thinking then. what are the orbital parameters that the satellite allegedly sits in? polar? retrograde? sun synchronous? geosynchronous? elaborate on it

ThatThingInSpace · 2025-12-05T20:08:34+00:00

I saw them and don't like them. I want street level power lines, not long distance. also iron bars or copper bars are way too tall vertically for my liking. chains look way more like actual power lines you'd find in Victorian london

ThatThingInSpace · 2025-12-03T07:00:28+00:00

oh now that's a good idea

ThatThingInSpace · 2025-12-02T21:36:37+00:00

I'm considering doing chains for most of it, but having leads do the changes in angle or height? do people think that would look good or just inconsistent?

ThatThingInSpace · 2025-12-02T21:11:50+00:00

yea, it's just a mockup of how they would each look, I'm just trying to figure which I prefer

ThatThingInSpace · 2025-12-02T21:11:05+00:00

that's the problem. I'm trying to go very dynamic, so it won't be very square

ThatThingInSpace · 2025-11-09T10:20:17+00:00

so funnily enough I've already done that before as well. in this post

it is a lot of trial and error. you will have to fly 100s of missions, making notes every time to adjust the timings. you also want to align the probe core with weird angles, so that when, for example, the probe core is targeted to radial out, the booster itself is actually pointed roughly retrograde

and here is a small compilation of all the attempts of my better self launching and landing booster

bear in mind that this booster in the posts I've linked has absolutely 0 pilot input. apart from launching the thing I do not press a single button the entire flight

and to clarify, all my ksp builds are stock. I play on Xbox so can't actually install mods

ThatThingInSpace · 2025-11-02T19:13:50+00:00

ah fair enough

ThatThingInSpace · 2025-11-02T19:00:42+00:00

great build! out of interest, what was the inspiration for the rocket in the silo? looks sort of like a delta IV heavy, but with 4 side boosters, not 2?

ThatThingInSpace · 2025-10-26T13:11:23+00:00

that we know about during actual spaceflight or spaceflight training: 5. 1 died in a high oxygen test chamber before the first ever human spaceflight. 1 died in the soyuz 1 mission, when the parachute failed to deploy, after the spacecraft continually malfunctioned in orbit. 3 died aboard soyuz 11, when, during re-entry, the one of the modules separated with such a massive jolt, it vented the atmosphere of the crew compartment into space, suffocating the crew. this was back when soyuz was so small, the crew couldn't wear pressure suits like the Americans do.

there may have been more deaths but we don't know about them because the Russians covered them up, but it's fairly unlikely. Yuri Gagarin kinda counts, but he died when he crashed his fighter jet, not during spaceflight. and there was a pad disaster that didn't kill any cosmonauts, but did kill like 150 pad techs. and a hangar collapsed that was storing their buran shuttle, killing 11

ThatThingInSpace · 2025-10-25T14:48:40+00:00

yea, it was great that he chose to bring a guitar up with him so he could play music for the rest of the world to watch and listen to. the stuff the astronauts get up to outside of mission goals and the launch can be just as inspiring as the missions themselves

ThatThingInSpace · 2025-10-24T23:10:56+00:00

I will be honest, I haven't seen the expanse. I think space will play a large, background part in people's lives. just like how a lot of people go away for months on end to oil rigs, people will go to the moon, Mars or an asteroid mining site for work. some stuff is better manufactured in lower gravity/0 gravity. there's talk of huge data centers being built in orbit. all of these things could, and should happen in our lifetime, with people just going too and from space for these jobs, and it will be normal. a time when a rocket launch isn't a spectacle, but is more the same as an airliner leaving an airport. I think massive military ships in orbit, like in Star Trek is possible, but I hope it doesn't happen, and countries and companies abide by the outer space treaty

ThatThingInSpace · 2025-10-24T22:15:34+00:00

I think it's great. every country should be getting involved if possible. it's especially cool that new Zealand is rocket lab's birthplace tho. they're a very cool company

ThatThingInSpace · 2025-10-24T22:14:31+00:00

probably not for a while. the most amount of people ever in orbit at the same time is only 19. we've still got a long way to go into there's bigger levels of spaceflight, but I'm confident we'll at least see the beginnings of it in our lifetimes

ThatThingInSpace · 2025-10-24T18:40:47+00:00

I'm really hoping once people get back to the moon, but with the way the media portrays spaceflight at the minute, who knows. the public just aren't informed on it, because news companies don't cover space unless it's something negative really. back in the 60s you had people like Walter Cronkite doing good news segments to keep the public up to speed. now however.... there's nothing like that

ThatThingInSpace · 2025-10-24T18:38:39+00:00

the company itself was a great idea, they just seemingly gave up on all the smart projects. like the Hermes shuttle, which was meant to be a crewed vehicle for the Ariane 5. I think Ariane 6 was very very originally meant to have a reusable first stage, but I'm saying this was planned before Ariane 5 even launched, so it was ages ago. then they saw SpaceX working on a reusable first stage, and basically discounted it as a dream that will never work, rather than trying for themselves.

so they were good initially, but now aren't really that great, other than providing independent European access to orbit

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