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Apogee — Update, 21 September This one is about the things around your vehicle — the one you are trying to catch, the stage you just dropped, the astronaut you just sent outside — and about coming down onto the ground and getting back off it again. Rendezvous and docking work now
Apogee — Playtest Build 12 - 14 September This one is about the things a vehicle does to the people in it, and the things a planet does to the vehicle. Heating happens to a surface now, not to a spacecraft. A heat shield protects what is behind it and nothing else, every part has
Apogee — Update, 6 September This one is about the two things that were costing you the most: waiting, and landing. Time no longer has to be integrated to pass. Over a stretch of vacuum with nothing happening, the trajectory is a conic and the game now solves it in closed form —
Apogee — Update, 4 September This is a big one. Three systems that were quietly inert — electrical power, aerodynamic surfaces, and the facility upgrades your program pays for — now do the job their descriptions always claimed. The planner learned to offer you a choice instead of
Apogee — Program Update Your buildings now do what their upgrade screens promised, communications ranges are real distances, and the Program screen has been rebuilt. Plus a long list of fixes to contracts, transfers, life support, and the maneuver planner. Heads up before you loa
Communications Many more ground stations, unlocked as the tracking station is upgraded Equatorial orbits are now the best covered, since that's where the pad is Link moved to its own panel, with a show/hide button, and no longer flickers The panel now says what percentage of the
What's new since the last build A guided tutorial New programs now open with a coach that walks you from your first contract through to your first debrief. Each step points at the button it's talking about rather than describing where to find it, and steps finish themselves when
Patch notes Fixes A craft with no engine had nothing to stage, so the staging panel's conversion re-ran every frame and cleared the selection — the Configuration panel ignored every click. Six of the eight flight-view panel toggles (and the pause/warp controls) were being laid ou