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Re: Hazard Avoidance My understanding (based on answer to question earlier today at press conference held by team members) is the rocket vehicle has no hazard avoidance capability; area inside the landing ellipse is believed to represent acceptably low risk of landing on an obstacle with a...

This is a Spacecraft3-based version of a von Braun Space Taxi, which is a late 1940s--early 1950s concept of a simple, rugged utility vehicle. This version has a child attachment on the ventral side, rather than a second docking location. Visual appearance is very close to the craft in Sputnik's...

There is a function like this in Space Combat (link below if you are interested), which is sort of an incomplete spacegoing version of X-Plane (i.e. the creator appears to have lost interest for the time being). There is an editor which allows building shapes, specifying masses, types of...

Ramjet Followup Thanks, Artlav, for posting the datablock changing the readout to grayscale; for me this was a definite improvement. In the original control panel, I'm finding it difficult to distinguish the red lettering from the blue field--the letters don't "pop" from the background...

Ramjet Development I couldn't tell from the stills posted, but now that I've seen the model with animation, all of the points I suggested in my previous post were already handled. My only surviving suggestion is checking the crew- and habitat-related sections at Atomic Rockets at...

Ramjet thoughts Hello Artlav: Your model looks great; I've been a Bussard Ramjet fan since reading various stories about them, as a kid, in the early seventies. Some may recall that the Microsoft Space Simulator included a ramjet; I made one for Space Combat (still in the download library at...