Kerbal Space Program - Messing With Mods - Livestream
Just the usual Tuesday night where plans come and go, things crash and amusing moments punctuate the building of varous ridiculous contraptions which may one day make it into some kind of working vehicle....
A weekly round up of space news, including all the rocket launches.
Varda Space finally get permission to drop the drugs they made in space back to earth.
Intuitive Machines Odysseus launches to the moon.
Collins tests a space suit in zero G.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL0lT941wu8
The Fountain War was the biggest war in Eve Online, and by extension, the biggest war in gaming history. It was between the two largest alliances in Eve Online and many allies, it lasted months and key events during the conflict turned on spies, diplomacy and straight up bribery. There's nothing approaching this in any other game and I think the story is worth telling.
I got the idea after seeing the Kickstarter to write a Dramatized version of the Fountain War by an established author - I hope after watching this you realise there's a story here which lends itself to being retold in dramatic fashion.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1318670671/fountain-war-book
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZQ4ejFq7BY
With the release of Elite: Dangerous 2.2.03 the Ancient alien ruins are starting to give up their secrets. Explorers have been tasked by Ram Tah to examine the ruins with the aid of special processing software he's supplying. As of right now we have 3 weeks to solve the mystery so far only 12% of the data has been acquired.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drgUvlgr2bc
We knew it was possible, but making it work required some more practice with the EVA control systems. Leaving the ship in orbit, Jebediah Kerman once more lands on Minmus and then one orbit later he relaunches and rendezvous with the capsule in orbit, finally winning his bet with Bob Kerman.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D7Wb-kcR4g
The SpaceX news just keeps coming. Friday saw the Launch of Iridium 8 followed by the Layoff of 10% of its workforce. CRS-16 returned home, Crew dragon prep is stalled because of government shutdown. And of course Elon's silver starship finally gets put together.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4kEC_lVjtk
For the last 10 years the US Air Force has been flying a small reusable space plane designated the X-37B, carrying out classified missions in low Earth orbit. This of course makes it something of a magnet for crazy conspiracy theories suggesting it's a weapons platform or it's changing the weather. However it was always pitched as a reusable platform to perform extended experiments in space starting back when it was a joint project with NASA. But NASA left the project after developing new flight control sensors and algorithms, because the purpose of the final product largely replicated capabilities already offered by the Space Station.
The DoD had similar testing requirements with the extra constraint of keeping the hardware and tests classified, so, the X-37B offers them this capability.
Photos of X37B in space by Ralph Vandebergh
https://twitter.com/ralfvandebergh
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQN4hId5psg
On Sunday I hosted a 2 hour stream on GoG.com's twitch channel showing off the new features of Kerbal Space Program and hopefully introducing a number of new players to the game.
You can buy the DRM free GOG version of KSP here
http://www.gog.com/game/kerbal_space_program
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpOctGtFl3o