What it does

This is a giant, 2.5m stack-mounted relay antenna that provides 1000G (or, if you prefer, 1T) of transmission power (ten times the most powerful stock antenna), useful for playing with modded solar systems that include extremely distant planets.

The mod also includes two smaller 300G antennas suitable for 1.25m stacks.

The design is inspired by the JAXA Large Deployable Antenna.

Retracted, it's a cylindrical component slightly taller than the MPL science lab.

Check out this video review by Kottabos!

JU1 Medium Deployable Antenna

This 300G relay antenna is suitable for deep-space probes.

JW1 Medium Deployable Antenna

Even more compact than the JU1, this 300G relay antenna has the added bonus of rover-friendly design.

License

Copyright under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, as follows:

• Model and texture by steedcrugeon
• Config files and patches by Snark

Please see the LICENSE file included with the mod.

Why would anyone want this?

If you just play with a stock solar system in KSP, you really don't need this antenna (unless you just think it's pretty). It mainly becomes useful if you are running any mods that increase the size of the solar system, in which case the most powerful stock antennas may not reach far enough.

For example, the most powerful stock antenna is 100G, and a level-3 tracking station at KSC is 250G, for a maximum range of 158G meters from Kerbin. The farthest object of interest in the stock solar system is Eeloo, which reaches a maximum distance of 127G meters. Therefore, the stock antennas will reach.

However, some mods boost the size of the solar system considerably larger than 158G meters. Some examples:

• Outer Planets: Plock can reach 689G meters
• Galileo's Planet Pack: Leto can reach 611G meters
• New Horizons: Vanor can reach 327G meters

Outer Planets attempts to deal with this by tweaking tracking station power, giving it a level-4 upgrade. However, this makes everything extremely over-powered for the inner solar system, without really adding any depth to the gameplay.

What is needed is a single, very powerful relay antenna that can fill that gap.

Compatibility with other mods

JX2Antenna includes compatibility patches for the following mods:

• IndicatorLights: Data-transmission indicators, similar to what IndicatorLights adds to all the stock antennas.
• Outer Planets: Undoes the tracking-station upgrade tweaks that OPM adds to the stock game.
• Galileo's Planet Pack: Undoes the 10x power upgrade that GPP gives to the stock RA-100 and 88-88 antennas when the "largeUnmanned" tech node is unlocked.
• RemoteTech: Makes the antenna work as a RemoteTech antenna, rather than using the stock KSP CommNet.

If you want to use these antennas with some other mod, and it needs a compatibility patch, please post in the JX2Antenna forum thread to let us know!

How to install

Unzip into your GameData folder, same as any mod.