Rework side fairings and jettison behaviour
sumghai opened this issue ยท 5 comments
Forum user Bomoo noticed there was a gap when two side fairings were mounted onto the Service Module:
I suspect this came about from the collider rework, and at the time I was trying to avoid explosions from intersecting fairings. But perhaps I can just move the visual mesh to line up properly.
Aforementioned fixes failed regression testing (#95), and requires rework.
Taking a page from forums user Sobol's SLS pack, I've reworked the side fairings as follows:
- Fairing panels have 1/3rd rather than 1/2 coverage of the Service Module circumference, resulting in "flatter" panels that should reduce collisions
- Panels now include jettison motors that automatically activate when staged, with enough thrust to push them out of the way cleanly in both atmospheric and orbital scenarios
- Panel decouplers now set to zero force as the jettison motors do all the work pushing them away