Looks like the building mechanic is in the works, weee

From his discord post:

Thrusters in space

Cold gas, atmospheric

Cold gas, vacuum

Here is my current progress on RCS thrusters using the previously shown volumetric rendering approach The first video shows hot gas thrusters in a vacuum, these were modeled after real references and look quite different from how they're usually rendered in games The next two videos show a starship-style cold gas thruster, first in-atmo and then in a vacuum

Thanks to Stefan for providing the references

By dev gravhoek:

Here I added a simple "map view" button to the game to reduce the tedium of maneuver planning. Since everything is seamless in KSA, this is really just warping between two states of camera zoom!

From the git changelog:

• Switched from mailbox to fifo presentation mode which fixes vsync on Windows.

• Added a toggle between a new "map" mode and local mode using the M key. This "map" mode just zooms out to the currently-followed vehicle's parent for now.

Here's a little demonstration of the Dzhanibekov effect using our rotation-under-time-warp physics. In this case, we are using full Newtonian physics to do the rotation but running the analytic solver in parallel to compare the solutions. The long dim RGB arrows are full physics, the short bright RGB arrows are the analytic solver. Watch the blue Z axis ("down" to the pilots) flip between two directions: towards and away from the angular momentum vector (in yellow).

Quote from Dean Hall:

WIP terrain material work from Linx

So Linx has been hard at work. These images are from our internal discord and I just couldn't wait to show everyone, so here's some screenshots and a little bit of detail from Linx. Hope they are okay with me posting this! Please remember it is very work in progress:

*Biplanar textures, correct normal mapping, and support for biome materials each with their own surface and cliff texture! The Moon isn't the best example to show off a bunch of biomes - I've got a very subtle setup. The main surface, craters, and maria are different biomes with very subtle differences in the terrain materials but they all share the same cliff texture. The cliff texture itself is probably slightly more dramatic than the moon actually has but is good for showing it off. All the biomes are based off the same dusty texture, with the craters having more rocks and the maria being smoother. Placeholders at best for now. [...] There are no detail heightmaps yet until we're able to compute the deformed mesh normals *

Rocketwerkz' KSA townhall on discord.

ShadowZone "5 things to expect"

ShadowZone "Early gameplay analysis"

ShadowZones interview with Rocketwerkz' CEO Dean Hall

Kitten Space Agency (currently referred to as a working title by Rocketwerkz, we'll see if it sticks) is intended as a spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program.

Rocketwerkz is a studio from New Zealand and were among the ones originally placing their bids with Take2 Interactive for developing a Kerbal Space Program successor, but after they lost the bid, any work was shelved.
However, after Take2 severely botched the sequel, Rocketwerkz revisited some of the early work, as well as its engine and framework, and decided to develop a spiritual successor instead.

Some of the developers from Kerbal Space Program as well as its massive modding community are onboard. Off the top of my head, this includes:

• HarvesteR - The original creator of KSP
• Blackrack - Known for various visual enhancement mods to KSP