Parts ‐ StationCore
In active development, nothing has been finalized yet.
Reduction of part count for stations, to enable them to actually be useful as stations rather than slideshows.
Ideally an ISS-type station should be able to be reduced to <30 parts total. This should leave plenty of room to have a few other reasonable part-count vessels docked at it without resulting in undesirable drops in frame-rate.
A large majority of the part-count used in stations comes not from the 'core' modules of the station, but in all of the adapters, docking ports, solar panels, and structural parts needed to make a nice looking station.
- DOS Based Modules - Dockable Orbital Segment
- ST-DOS-COM - Service Module (bottom cylinder)
- ST-DOS-HAB - Habitation Module (full tapered)
- ST-DOS-TKS - TKS Service Module - Lab/Hab Combo (short tapered)
- ST-DOS-LAB - Lab Module (bottom tapered)
- ST-DOS-FEM - Entertainment Module (dogbone shaped)
- ST-DOS-PWR - Power and Laboratory, extra large/second set of solar panels.
- USOS Based Modules - Combinable Orbital Segment
- ST-COS-HAB-S - Habitat (short)
- ST-COS-HAB-M - Habitat (medium)
- ST-COS-HAB-L - Habitat (long)
- ST-COS-LAB-S - Lab (short)
- ST-COS-LAB-M - Lab (medium)
- ST-COS-LAB-L - Lab (long)
- Inflatable Habitat/Lab modules
- ST-HAB-A - 1.25m -> 2.5m habs
- ST-HAB-B - 2.5m -> 5m habs
- ST-HAB-C - 3.75m -> 7.5m habs
- ST-CFG-A - 10m torus, 1.875m core, 2.5m torus diameter
- ST-CFG-B - 20m torus, 2.5m core, 3.125m torus diameter
- ST-CFG-C - 35m torus, 3.75m core, 3.75m torus diameter
- ST-CFG-D - 50m torus, 5m core, 5m torus diameter
- Modular Solar Truss - integrated solar panels and dual-axis sun-tracking (e.g. ISS solar arrays)
- ST-MST-ISS - 2.5m core, ISS sized panels
- Multi-Docking Hubs
- ST-HUB-DOS - Multi-Docking Hub - 1.25m DOS variant
- ST-HUB-COS - Multi-Docking Hub - 1.25m COS variant
- Solar Panels
- ST-GEN-DSP-DOS-S - Deployable Solar Panel
- ST-GEN-DSP-DOS-M - Deployable Solar Panel
- ST-GEN-DSP-DOS-L - Deployable Solar Panel
- ST-GEN-DSP-DOS-SF - Deployable Fixed Solar Panel
- ST-GEN-DSP-DOS-MF - Deployable Fixed Solar Panel
- ST-GEN-DSP-ISS - Deployable Solar Panel
- ST-GEN-DSP-SM*-* - Deployable Solar Panel
- ST-GEN-WDP - Welding Docking Port
- ShipCore - Series D
- SC-D-CM - VA Capsule - parachutes, heat-shield, reaction wheel, probe core, batteries, antenna. No rcs or docking port, but has 1.25m top node for user-added port in place of SM/LAS.
- SC-D-SM - VA orbital engines - fuel, engines, batteries
- SC-D-LAS - VA Launch Abort System
- Part Name
- VOL - Raw geometry volume
- SVOL - Structural Volume
- HVOL - Habitation Volume
- PVOL - Propellant Volume
- LVOL - EC/Life Support/Configurable Volume
- MASS - Total mass of the fully loaded part regardless of if stock or using LS
| Part Name | VOL | SVOL | HVOL | PVOL | BVOL | MASS | MASS | PRP | BAT | EC | ISP | dV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST-DOS-COM | 23 | 3 | 15.118 | 1.882 | 3 | 8 | 5.18865 | 2.21135 | 0.6 | 12000 | 291 | 925 |
| ST-DOS-HAB | 23 | 3 | 15.118 | 1.882 | 3 | 8 | 5.18865 | 2.21135 | 0.6 | 12000 | 291 | 925 |
| ST-DOS-LAB | 23 | 3 | 15.118 | 1.882 | 3 | 8 | 5.18865 | 2.21135 | 0.6 | 12000 | 291 | 925 |
| ST-DOS-STR | 23 | 3 | 15.118 | 1.882 | 3 | 8 | 5.18865 | 2.21135 | 0.6 | 12000 | 291 | 925 |
| ST-DOS-PWR | 23 | 3 | 15.118 | 1.882 | 3 | 8 | 5.18865 | 2.21135 | 0.6 | 12000 | 291 | 925 |
| ST-DOS-FEM | 23 | 3 | 15.118 | 1.882 | 3 | 8 | 5.18865 | 2.21135 | 0.6 | 12000 | 291 | 925 |
| ST-DOS-TKS | 15.7 | 2 | 9.768 | 1.332 | 2.6 | 5.2 | 3.1149 | 1.5651 | 0.52 | 10400 | 291 | 1021 |
| ST-COS-HAB-S | 9.7 | 1 | 5.7 | 0 | 3 | 3.2 | 2.6 | 0 | 0.6 | 12000 | 0 | 0 |
| ST-COS-HAB-M | 17 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 3.9 | 2.7 | 0 | 1.2 | 24000 | 0 | 0 |
| ST-COS-HAB-L | 24.3 | 3 | 12.3 | 0 | 9 | 4.6 | 2.8 | 0 | 1.8 | 36000 | 0 | 0 |
| ST-COS-LAB-S | 9.7 | 1 | 5.7 | 0 | 3 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 0 | 0.6 | 12000 | 0 | 0 |
| ST-COS-LAB-M | 17 | 2 | 10.5 | 0 | 4.5 | 5.2 | 4.3 | 0 | 0.9 | 18000 | 0 | 0 |
| ST-COS-LAB-L | 24.3 | 3 | 15.3 | 0 | 6 | 6.5 | 5.3 | 0 | 1.2 | 24000 | 0 | 0 |
| ST-HUB-COS | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 0 | 0.2 | 4000 | 0 | 0 |
| ST-HAB-A | 86 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| ST-HAB-B | 292 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| ST-HAB-C | 691 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| ST-HAB-D | 9.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| ST-HAB-E | 114 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| ST-HAB-F | 400 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| ST-HAB-G | 1068 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| ST-HAB-H | 2736 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- Part Name
- Crew - crew capacity as # of seats on the part; may not actually support that many when LS is installed
- SAS - Stock SAS level for part (MJ included on all if installed)
- LAB - Grade of lab; 0 denotes no lab, 1-3 are varying grades (higher/faster return)
- SOL - Integrated solar panel output in EC/S
- EC - Stock battery capacity
- RCS - kn/thruster for RCS output
| Part Name | Crew | SAS | LAB | SOL | EC | RCS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST-DOS-COM | 3 | 3 | 0 | |||
| ST-DOS-HAB | 3 | 1 | 0 | |||
| ST-DOS-LAB | 3 | 1 | 3 | |||
| ST-DOS-STR | 3 | 1 | 0 | |||
| ST-DOS-PWR | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||
| ST-DOS-TKS | 2 | 3 | 1 | |||
| ST-DOS-FEM | 3 | 1 | 0 | |||
| ST-COS-HAB-S | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||
| ST-COS-HAB-M | 4 | 0 | 0 | |||
| ST-COS-HAB-L | 6 | 0 | 0 | |||
| ST-COS-LAB-S | 2 | 0 | 1 | |||
| ST-COS-LAB-M | 3 | 0 | 2 | |||
| ST-COS-LAB-L | 4 | 0 | 3 | |||
| ST-HUB-COS | 0 | 0 | ||||
| ST-HAB-A | ||||||
| ST-HAB-B | ||||||
| ST-HAB-C | ||||||
| ST-HAB-D | ||||||
| ST-HAB-E | ||||||
| ST-HAB-F | ||||||
| ST-HAB-G | ||||||
| ST-HAB-H |
Expandable/inflatable parts require "Rocket Parts" ("Materials Kits" in MKS installs) to be fitted out for use. This represents adding partitions, and all the fittings, life support systems, etc. required for the otherwise empty hab volume to be useful for living and working. There is no requirement that the fitting out parts be delivered at the same time, multiple supply missions might be necessary (see below).
- To see how much part mass must be delivered to the habitat, right click the part in the VAB parts menu:
In this CFG-10 example, the amount is 9.36t.
You can also place the part in the VAB/SPH, then right click the part. It shows the Inflation Resource needed, and how many units are required for inflation.
- Knowing the required mass of rocket parts, you can then make sure you have an MFT tank that is attached to the Hab part, or could be docked to it later. To do this, place an MFT tank with the fuel selected as 'Rocket Parts." If you right click the part, Configure Containers will show you the mass of parts carried, which you can adjust as required via altering the % of the tank used for Rocket Parts, or via altering the size of the tank.
In this case the tank has 10.62499t of Rocket Parts.
If using the units of RocketParts to scale a tank rather than mass, simply select RocketParts as the "fuel" for the tank in question, then adjust the size until you have the desired number of units.
- Once in place for inflation, right click the Hab part, and hit "inflate." If there is a tank attached with parts, they will be drained from that part. If the mass of parts is sufficient, then the Hab will inflate. If the mass of parts is below the required value, the parts drain from the attached tank, and are incremented in the hab part which will show how many more are needed. Another mission or missions can be flown to the station in order to reach the required number of parts, at which point the Hab inflates and is ready for use.
- SOL - EC/S output from integrated solar panels
- EC - Kerbal-days of battery capacity
- SUP - Kerbal-days of supplies
- REC - Recycler percent / capacity
- CON - Converter output in kerbal-days / day
- HAB - Habitation duration value
- MLT - Habitation multiplier
| Part Name | Crew | SOL | EC | SUP | REC | CON | HAB | MLT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST-DOS-COM | 3 | 60 | 25/2 | 0 | 60 | 0 | ||
| ST-DOS-HAB | 3 | 120 | 50/2 | 1 | 120 | 0.5 | ||
| ST-DOS-LAB | 3 | 60 | 65/2 | 0 | 60 | 0 | ||
| ST-DOS-STR | 3 | 120 | 50/2 | 1 | 60 | 0 | ||
| ST-DOS-PWR | 3 | 60 | 65/2 | 0 | 60 | 0 | ||
| ST-DOS-TKS | 2 | 60 | 50/2 | 0 | 60 | 0 | ||
| ST-DOS-FEM | 3 | 120 | 75/2 | 2 | 60 | 1.5 | ||
| ST-COS-HAB-S | 2 | 60 | 120 | |||||
| ST-COS-HAB-M | 4 | 120 | 120 | |||||
| ST-COS-HAB-L | 6 | 180 | 120 | |||||
| ST-COS-LAB-S | 2 | 60 | 60 | |||||
| ST-COS-LAB-M | 3 | 90 | 60 | |||||
| ST-COS-LAB-L | 4 | 120 | 60 | |||||
| ST-HUB-COS | 0 | 25 | ||||||
| ST-HAB-A | ||||||||
| ST-HAB-B | ||||||||
| ST-HAB-C | ||||||||
| ST-HAB-D | ||||||||
| ST-HAB-E | ||||||||
| ST-HAB-F | ||||||||
| ST-HAB-G | ||||||||
| ST-HAB-H |
| Part Name | Crew | WRK | LIV | EPF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST-DOS-COM | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| ST-DOS-HAB | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| ST-DOS-LAB | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| ST-DOS-STR | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| ST-DOS-PWR | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| ST-DOS-TKS | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| ST-DOS-FEM | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| ST-COS-HAB-S | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1.2 |
| ST-COS-HAB-M | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1.4 |
| ST-COS-HAB-L | 6 | 3 | 3 | 1.6 |
| ST-COS-LAB-S | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| ST-COS-LAB-M | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| ST-COS-LAB-L | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| ST-HUB-COS | 1? | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| ST-HAB-A | 1 | |||
| ST-HAB-B | 1 | |||
| ST-HAB-C | 1 | |||
| ST-HAB-D | 1 | |||
| ST-HAB-E | 1 | |||
| ST-HAB-F | 1 | |||
| ST-HAB-G | 1 | |||
| ST-HAB-H | 1 |
- Supplies = 0.001t each (1kg), consumed at 2.7/hour.
- 2.7u / 0.0027t hour
- 16.2u / 0.0162t day
- 486u / 0.486t month (30 k-days)
- 5832u / 5.832t year (12 k-months)
- EC
- 0.01 / s
- 0.6 / m
- 36 / h
- 216 / k-day
- 6480 / k-month
- Recyclers offer a flat percentage discount for a specified # of kerbals; they do not effect K's beyond their 'capacity'.
- Habitation:
- Habitation calculated in K-months.
- Habitation multipliers stack additively, with a base of 1
- Total habitation value is the sum of K-months * the sum H-mult.