Upgrades

In low Kerbin Orbit The supply missions to UKSS had become a regular practice, this supply run could keep the station supplied for almost a year, depending on crew complement of course. The Charon Heavy was struggling with its payload, they even needed to use RCS to make orbit and the rendez-vous. Beauty shot. Crews […]

Charon Heavy cleared for flight

C017D Charon Heavy 03, note the D meaning that this was the fourth design iteration, launched from Desert Space Center as a standard resupply mission to UKSS01. Its powerful booster dropped the craft in LKO and boosted back to the space center at KSC. Parachute deployment was okay, and this time only the center engine […]

The long reach

S005A Supply 03 After the separation of Space City from UKSS, a lot of restructuring would be required and with the aging of the Salyut modules, in time a replacement would be needed. Some of the modules were docked together with disposable maneuvrable units which meant that restructuring would be tough. Supply 03 took off […]

A refill and a scary landing

The Kerbia Design Bureau had given the refilling of the landers some thought and rather than leaving it to the commercial market, they had created a supply vessel that should be capable of refilling both landers. It was heavy though. A Wodan 12B6 had never been flown before and when the empty boosters collided and […]