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Hello Devs
While taking my first crack at addon vessel design, I noticed that it currently is somewhat hard to develop designs based off of real life technology & components & to know what design parameters ( propellant weight, Isp, underexpansion model, thrust range, thrust vectoring...) should apply to a given engine type. What I hope to accomplish with this thread is to create a repository of realistic rocket engines/boosters, their design parameters (even a link would be nice), and, if you feel comfortable with it, a copy of a reasonably accurate mesh file, donated for use by other addon devs. Although Im not so naive as to think that sticking any old liquid engine underneath any fuel tank (KSP engineering) will always work, having a realistic starting point to work with would be nice. Feel free to post any other components you think might be usefull as well.
While taking my first crack at addon vessel design, I noticed that it currently is somewhat hard to develop designs based off of real life technology & components & to know what design parameters ( propellant weight, Isp, underexpansion model, thrust range, thrust vectoring...) should apply to a given engine type. What I hope to accomplish with this thread is to create a repository of realistic rocket engines/boosters, their design parameters (even a link would be nice), and, if you feel comfortable with it, a copy of a reasonably accurate mesh file, donated for use by other addon devs. Although Im not so naive as to think that sticking any old liquid engine underneath any fuel tank (KSP engineering) will always work, having a realistic starting point to work with would be nice. Feel free to post any other components you think might be usefull as well.