I think a nice addition to the parts list would be a resizable dish antenna. The most visible part of unmanned planetary spacecraft is the large dish antenna. Apollo spacecraft had dish antenna. I use interstages in the Soyuz style for my antennae. The problem is placing that antenna in the very last stage so I don't eject it prematurely.

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    Not only resizeble...but you are right, the probes are 85% big antennas.
    It would be fun to send probe with near range antenna and orbiter with short range reciever and huge dish relay antenna.

    4.3 years ago

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