Boosters and Spacetape - A Kerbal Space Program Podcast

Digi returns to the show with his bad jokes and awkward moments. We talk about our recent ventures with Kerbal Space Program, discuss the latest development news and mods and reading out listener messages. In our real-space segment the observations of Proxima Centauri are discussed as well as some interesting research in metallic hydrogen. Time stamps: 0:04:23 - Coming up 0:05:16- Mission Control...

A trio in the form of Aki, Read and Mator take the helm of this episode. We talk about our KriSPmas streaming adventures on KSPTV for the 5 year celebration of Kerbals Space program and a few extra things discovered in the release of 1.2.2. The passing of John Glenn is covered in our real-space section, as does some de-classified history of the Soviets weaponising orbital vehicles. Time Stamps: 0:...

While Digi is away, Kofeyh joins us in the fourth seat as we report on our latest experiences in the Kerbal Space Program universe. Although there is little development news at the time of recording, Read brings forward a topic that sparks a big discussion regarding the direction of the modding community. In our real astronomy segment we talk about the successes of the recent ExoMars mission and a...

In Episode 27 DigitalPsychosis rejoins the team to cover our latest progress in Kerbal Space Program, albeit a bit dry. We talk about SQUADs progress on the 1.2.2 patch and welcome a new senior developer. TheReadPanda offers his experience with the OPT and Mk4 Spaceplane mods in the modding section. For our Real Space segment we discuss MatoroIgnika's experience at the GOES-R launch, the future op...

In this episode we discuss the changes in the 1.2.1 patch and we also delve into the issues the PS4 and XBox users are currently facing with their version of Kerbal Space Program. Digital Psychosis was in PAX Australia at the time of recording so Million_Lights joins us as a guest on the show and discusses the new SquadCast format. The Read Panda runs through the fun he's been having with the OPT...

In this episode we discuss the release of KSP 1.2. Unfortunately this version is still waiting console porting, but the PC release seems all that we could have hoped for. We share our feelings on the departure of the majority of developers and thank them for all their hard work. We also delve into what we'd like to see with KSPs future. We also talk about Mator's experience at TwitchCon and Digi's...

1.2 is now in pre-release and we are now able to talk about the features without fear of breaking the Squad NDA. We run through our experiences with version 1.2 so far as well as giving a brief over view of the features. We weren't able to cover everything so we will be diving into more depth over the next few shows. We also cover SpaceX, Philae's discovery and the Juno data in our real space sect...

We all return to start Season Three of Boosters and Spacetape. We are excited to add some changes to the Podcast which we hope the listeners will find fun. We start by discussing these changes before moving onto our usual segment: Mission Control. Mator has been out of the loop as he recovers from a real-life disaster, Digi has an announcement for an upcoming event, Read continues to take things s...

In this episode there is no Kerbal Space Program or Astronomy discussion. Instead, we took the opportunity to talk about the Podcast itself without the usual live audience. Having run the show for more than a year now we thought it would be fun to reflect on our time in Boosters and Spacetape since it started in June 2015. A lot has changed since the first episode; from recording quality to conten...

In this episode we celebrate the release of Kerbal Space Program onto the PS4 and XBOX consoles. We discuss the latest mods we found as well as sharing our current progression in KSP. MatoroIgnika is away for this episode as he travels to see a live SpaceX launch. In our real-space segment we cover Juno and the Mars 2020 Rover and we also touch on New Horizons. We also have a small announcement ab...

Million_Lights joins us as our special guest while The Read Panda slowly cooks himself after his air-conditioning remains broken. We cover our progress in KSP, our thoughts on 1.1.3 and 1.2 development. We also discuss the upcoming console releases, the likelihood of mods on consoles and what we expect to see beyond 1.2. Asteroid Day happened and some of the Rocket Jockeys covered the event using...

A new member joins the Squad team, we reveal what is to be released in KSP 1.1.3 and we try to put to bed some concerns over Squad members leaving. As always we share our progress within KSP and Aki celebrates his return to Twitch. Read draws closer to updating his important Kerbalnaut hiring mod and discusses some of his future plans for the plugin. We have also decided to give our real-astronomy...

More podcasting sillyness and no more bug-whinging with Digi, Read, Mator and Aki. We discuss our progress in Kerbal Space Program as always before we move on to KSP development and news from the modding community. We share some big news with the departure of HarvestR (the creator of KSP) from Squad and wish him well on his new ventures. There is also our astronomy discussion in our real space seg...

Today we talk about the progress of the 1.1.3 patch coming up in Kerbal Space Program. Squad also release some features of what to expect in KSP 1.2. We also try and stop complaining about bugs after receiving some feedback through the iTunes reviews. As always, we discuss what we've been up to on our KSP live-streams in Twitch. In our real-space section, we talk about BEAM, Ceres, SpaceX and New...

In this episode we discuss the release of KSP 1.1.2 as Squad go on a well deserved break. We talk over a few of the KSP mods, including a message from Poodmund and his work towards the Outer Planets Mod and future updates of Environmental Visual Enhancements and Proot's KRC. A celebration is in order as MatoroIgnika announces his partnership with Twitch - be sure to check him out and subscribe if...

At the time of recording, KSP 1.1 was still going through its release phase and we discuss whether we feel the game still needed some work. There was also limited discussion on mods as we patiently wait for them to trickle through with their updates. We also report on our own KSP progression and what we've been up to in our streams. Dan (Aki) is still away but is counting down the last few weeks b...

The Read Panda returns to the microphone for Episode 14 of Boosters and Spacetape. We continue with our discussions and thoughts with KSP 1.1 as well as dwelling on Thrust-to Weight Ratio and Delta-V figures after CYBUTEK, the creator and maintainer of Kerbal Engineer Redux, creeps into out live chat. We also continue our discussions of real-space. Planet-X makes another appearance into our notes...

Episode 13... well, the unlucky number lived up to its reputation after we experienced some peculiar abnormalities throughout this episode. Hurrah for editing. Without our constant rudder, The Read Panda, it was up to Aki, Digi and Mator to run show. We're very excited to discuss the pending release of KSP 1.1 (or what we call the REAL 1.0). We highlight the new features of 1.1 and whether it has...

Digital Psychosis attends some real life issues and is sadly absent for this episode. Aki is noticeably tired from giving attention to other projects and has issues with blenders, despite being in a closed studio. However we push on into the world of Kerbal Space Program including our latest progress within the game and our streams, Squad development news for KSP 1.1 and discussions on the wonderf...

EJ_SA, a professional Twitch streamer and both KSP and Space enthusiast, joins us in this episode as our special guest. He talks about life as a KSP Twitch Streamer and shares some knowledge on space engineering and astronomy. We also discuss our latest adventures in Kerbal Space Program and share our thoughts on the long-awaited 1.1 development. Aki is recovering from heat stress and apologises f...

We're back for a new series of BST. Having been away for a while we all have a great deal to talk about in both KSP and Real Space. One of the more important topics of the episode is OakTree42 re-branding himself as TheReadPanda due to him expanding his own horizons. We also discuss the new up-and-coming Rocket Jockey's group, who are a group of KSP streamers.   Host Links: www.twitch.tv/matoro ww...

All four of us return to BST for a Kerbal Space Program 2015 Christmas special. Aki apologises for the house-hold noises leaking into his new doorless studio. We discuss our progress in KSP and gush over the updated Scatterer mod, among others. As usual, we dabble in real space with Oak's Space History Corner and Aki's Conspiracy Theory of the Week: Planet X. The show will resume to a normal sched...

Today we continued the discussion of the upcoming 1.1 features and talked about our favourite current mods as well as some new ones. We report our in-game progress as always and we find real-space has been busy, too. Digi is still away at the time of recording. We also announce a close to this season as Aki prepares to move to a new country. BST2 will start as soon as possible with many planned im...

Unfortunately DigitalPsychosis needs to concentrate on real life for this episode. But we do get RoverDude in to replace him to talk about his contributions to Squad's 1.1 release of KSP as well as his own Umbra Space Industries mod collection. We also discuss the recently released features for KSP 1.1 from the last SquadCast.   Host Links: www.twitch.tv/matoro www.twitch.tv/thereadpanda BST Socia...

In this episode we had a heavy discussion about the stock bugs that plague KSP. And we also covered the contentious subject that is MechJeb. Although the Dev Notes have left us reasonably dry for discussion, MaxMaps shared some exciting hints in his weekly SquadCast. There is the usual discussion on real space with our most interesting conspiracy theory yet. We also answer questions submitted by o...