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Ian Stokes

'Kitten Space Agency' is the spiritual successor to 'Kerbal Space Program', and they have an ex-SpaceX engineer on the team (interview)

Screenshots from the pre-alpha build of Kitten Space Agency.

We often hear about how people working in the space industry first had their interest piqued by space movies and games, but someone working in the space industry for over a decade before making the jump to developing video games is a much rarer tale. But that's exactly what happened for Stefan Moluf, a programmer at games studio RocketWerkz who spent nearly 12 years working as a Flight Software Engineer for SpaceX.

His experience fits the bill, though, as the team at RocketWerkz — led by Dean Hall, creator of hit survival game DayZ — is working on a spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program, called Kitten Space Agency (KSA). What's more, Felipe Falanghe, creator of the original Kerbal Space Program, is also working on the project.

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