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A masterful feat of engineering aboard the Электрон спутник 1the first artificial satellite was launched. the sibling satellites of спутник 1 and the Электрон Влок-Б core stage are circling the earth almost exactly 2 years before the first satellite irl.

Rp-1 is lwky the best and most challenging game I have ever played and the amount of joy i find in overcoming these challenges is insane, when I first started I was very confused and overwhelmed but decided to stick with it and it payd off, even though I should probably try getting my time spent on ksp per week back below 20hrs lol. Thx btw to all the people that encouraged me to give this a try.

(I have more way better photos in the screenshot folder I can post them tomorrow)

wth, I am trying to make a burner foogle account for dumb shenanigans and stiff i dont want my name linked to and this pops up on my phone and also on my ipad when trying to create it

my cosmonauts retire instantly after completing general aviation training, it is 1954 and one of my pilots just crashed so I sort of need a replacement

March 1954: Test pilot, yaoi gagarin died in a crash while attempting to land the СР-3 Ласточка after successfully completing her mission to reach 40km in the exlerinental rocket plane, a replacement is being built currently.

Although future pilots are advised to simply land in the flat deserts around Baikonur Kosmodrom.

It is soon to be replaced by СР-4 Медведев (similar to X-15, just more capable)

It means swallow btw and Otherwise it flies great, I was just at a bad angle to the airfield and stalled on landing. If you want the craft file I can give a download link the next time I am on my pc.

I have built this (totally not a spyplane) and I need a way to create waypoints and make them appear on the nav ball or something so I can land on a runway instead of the desert. I know you can make waypoints but they are useless if they don't appear on the navball even if I activate navigation to them. I don't just want to land in the desert and idk how except for guessing based on the position of the sun and the map view.

Is the easiest way to just place a small craft/a flag maybe near the runway I want to land at and set it as a target.

I built an airbase with KK a few hundred kilometers from my space center and I am trying to land there or at the space center, really doesn't matter much.

How do you do navigation?

These are some of my plane designs, first one is a MiG 15 inspired and the second one is a mix of MiG 19 and 21

Idk what materials I should use, I have tried fairings(on the MiG 15) they are very light but sorr of hard to shape and there are sometimes weird interactions with landing gear which messes up aerodynamics I am currently using Procedural structural parts for the fuselages (in the MiG mashup) but idk if it is the most cost/mass efficient way

What do you usually use? Are empty tanks an option?

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I also use the same tank dismeter from my early sounding rockets 0.45m and add multiple 3-5m long tanks clipped into the fuselage

Idk why but since launching the game yesterday parallax scatters only appear at a certain distance from the craft and only at a certain angle.The density also seems really low even though I didnt change anything.

for context:

this is SOL/RP1 it worked perfectly fine until recently. I dont think parallax got an update but maybe it is because I went down to 4k from 8k textures due to vram issues.

there is a gimbal on this R2, which I am trying to replicate, however there is no such thing on any Rd100 variant, why is that, and is there a way to add one?

also how do these types of gimbal work? There is one on the RD200 but I dont get it.

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Wait aminute, it gimbals??!! lol I just tgested the rocket and it gimbals wth lol

Edit number two: just to clarify i meant there weren't those gimbal block thingies on any of the model 39 derived engines

i know all of the mods where these parts are from but idk where that capsule is from, is it bdb?

(not my craft, it is from a youtube video titled: crewed jupiter exploration with shuttle era tech)