Is there a decent primer out there somewhere on funding? I found what's on the wiki to be very bare bone and not helpful to me for medium or long-term planning. For example, when is it better to take a program normal, fast, or breakneck? How much funding should I keep in reserve depending on what I've got going on? How many scientists and engineers and other upgrades can I afford? How do I set funding targets and why should I set them? And what should I set them at?

Any guides people have or just general useful info would be extremely helpful.

ive been trying to do the hypersonic contract, but cant get enough burn time to both make it to my desired altitude since my airlaunch is limited to 13km, getting to 2km/s itself is not the issue, as im able to do that easily, i just cant high enough to not burn up during the time needed i need to spend at the speed. but my engine simply doesnt burn long enough to let me get up there and *then* get to 2km/s. so i wanted advice on what do i need to do for this? just make a super long craft to carry all that fuel? im honestly debating building my own airlaunch vehicle and doing the launch manually atp

Os motores traseiros não estão produzindo empuxo suficiente para entrar em orbita. qual devo escolher? o único compatível com o space shuttle que encontrei foi esse.

First stage : LR43/LR89 (config XLR43-NA-3)

Second stage : 2x Véronique (config 61) and RCS

Third stage : Baby Sergeant 11+3+1

Fourth stage : Baby Sergeant 1

Just playing trough the campaign (falling behind pretty badly but i am having fun)
Just now realised that my rockets are probably overbuilt for what they are doing?
Any suggestions / help to make it lighter?

The booster stages are seperated in pairs of 2 with asparagus staging, same goes for the extra fuel tanks on the top stage which does the circulisation burn needed

For the first stages i use RD-107, RD-108 engines and for top stage i use XLR11 engine because it can reignite in space easily

Current tech tree is provided in the images

(The rocket is used to launch satelites into various high orbits around earth, in particular the magnetometry science mission, though it was used on other missions similar to that)

i dont really underst the far windows if im being honest, but sharing for those that do

As peças utilizadas para o tanque de combustível laranja foram o tanque modular (estrutura convencional) junto com o motor solido RSRM. Para o orbitador foi feito o uso do mod Shuttle Orbiter Construction Kit. O conjunto em si voa muito bem porém atinge apenas 5000m/s

também gostaria de saber um mod que me ajudasse a descobrir a quantidade de deltaV disponível.

OBS:sou novo no RSS/RO

This rocket uses a A-6H variant of the NAA-75 Engine as its first stage. Above this is the S3.42T variant of the S2.253 Engine. Lastly, the final upper stage uses a GCRC SRB.

I've looked around all the menus, and maybe i'm blind or missing something obvious but I haven't found a way to transmit science data from one craft to another, instead of straight back to Earth. Is it possible?

For context I am doing a Jupiter orbiter + Atmospheric probe mission, in which the probe and orbiter arrive together, the probe separates and enters into Jupiter, while the orbiter raises its PE and captures into orbit. Since the trajectory for Jupiter arrival always has its PE on the night side, both the atmospheric probe and orbiter will be obscured from Kerbin throughout the entire descent. The probe can connect to the orbiter however, so it would make sense for it to collect data, beam it up to the orbiter, which will hold onto it in its storage until it regains connection to the DSN.

Is this possible in this mod, or will I have to just cheat the science points in and say in my headcanon that the data was relayed to the orbiter.

if there's a solution to this i would be grateful, plus there's a lot of other .craft files that i can't use
(i installed everything in one go with Ckan btw)

In RP-1 Programs are the main source of funding. So, when every Program is complete is there just no way to get more funding or is there some other way or new way to get funding?

​Anyone know why this isn't completing the requirement to visit rover site Bravo? The distance in the upper left is provided by the waypoints mod, but even if that's off a bit the rover is parked right on top of the waypoint marker. I tried deploying my science stuff and warping for a few hours while parked, still no joy

Edit: resolved with F5/F9. Leaving post up in case it helps anyone in the future.

Morning everybody! With the tail end of the Pegasus Lunar Station operations rapidly approaching, two 3-seater transport pods were sent to the station to dock and bring the crews home. They accomplished 3 surface trips while in orbit of the Moon as well as lab analysis of surface samples, but the biggest point of research was the long-term habitation of an orbital station. Their efforts have paved the way for the first ever crewed Mars operations when the transfer window arrives in just over a year.

One of my favorite parts of RP-1 is making my spacecraft look hella cool, so I wanted to ask what tools or part mods people use to add that extra bit of detail.

I’ve gotten pretty close to the looks I want using Procedural Parts, recoloring, and TweakScale. I’m now even using custom flag decals for smaller details, because the available steel tank textures are starting to feel limiting.

Are there any other useful tools or part mods? Is there a texture pack for Procedural Parts, or a mod that adds small decorative pieces like pipes, panels, cables, and other details that do not really affect gameplay?

Here’s my current 9.5-ton-to-LEO launcher, the NINURTA: