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Kerbal Space Program (2015)

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With the shuttle pad finished, I'm turning again to the Saturn mobile launcher base, doing yet another revision on it. This time I'm reducing the number of inserts that go into the exhaust hole to just one, and modifying how it works. This is an early WIP demo of it.

The Saturn launcher base needs this insert, for the non-centered exhaust hole screws up stack symmetry for the hold-down arm attach nodes, which ended my idea for integrating the inserts completely into the base (and for which I had forgotten why I didn't do it in the first place, LOL).

So now there will be one insert, with multiple switchable configurations.. A major change is how side-booster hold-downs for the rectangular shape insert will be handled. The normal hold-downs for the core won't be used, instead optional nodes can be turned on for a new "center-mount" hold-down assembly, which will go into the bays for the side-boosters. These will be switchable among various sizes to match the selected insert configuration. This new center-mount hold-down can also be used for the core, with or without the normal hold-down supports (which can now be turned entirely off).

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