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Didn't find a thread on this, so... http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/01/wednesdays-near-earth-asteroid-caught-on-film/ Yeah, kind of a yawner, but space "news" nonetheless. Hail :probe:

http://www.spacenews.com/launch/requested-falcon-range-date-has-conflict.html February 2 launch, perhaps?

Beetle-juice. Now 15% less filling!!!

If future versions of Orbiter stick to realistic, currently achievable spaceflight, then adding interstellar destinations would be sort of pointless, unless you're prepared to simulate decades, centuries & millennia of travel time. Which would only be supportable by crew hibernation technology...

Nice tele...Schmitt-Cassegrain 200 mm? More?

The world's feeling awfully small these days. My best friend from high school (we grew up in Wisconsin, USA) moved to Italy about 20 years ago, got married, had two kids, and had been living in...you guessed it...L'Aquila most of that time. Recently, I'm relieved to say, he'd moved to...

Two suggestions: 1. Throttle down to -1 to shut off the engine, not 0. 2. Still, sometimes I add an additional throttle-down term soon after the engines are supposed to throttle down to -1, to guarantee they're fully off. For example, 537.5=engine(100,-1,2.5) 541=engine(0,-1,0.1)(The above...

Please do...would love to try it out!

I agree. I suppose I should have said the Hawaii pass would be on a first-order approximation of the actual trajectory ;) Regardless, I'm sure there were various tracking radars, including those from Japan and US Warships, that would have looked for the rocket and payload at various points...

Thank you sir! I was looking for this sort of analysis online, but the news articles are more full of emotion than facts. This article and its diagrams are a bit dated, but the trajectory analysis is interesting (and applies to the NK launch today)...

Sorry I missed it. Nothing spacely ever happens here in Seattle. :( Maybe the North Korean Taepodong will somehow make it across the Pacific. But it's no fun to be a target, either...

See the Project R-7 add-on to see these verniers gimballing during flight: Project R-7

Rodion, It looks like very nice work to me! I'm a longtime fan of multistage. There's so much you can do with it, and it's got more than enough capabilities for this kind of rocket (unmanned). Have you good data sources for items like burn times, ISP's, hardware types and masses (stages...

Yes...whenever I set up a launch vehicle scenario, I always make sure the Orbit MFD is set to display altitude above the earth. It makes no sense to display the distance from the Earth's radius in this case. Just set the MFD as you would like it, save the scenario, then you can use the saved...

Penguin, I hope you're joking about banning and such...this seems a perfectly legitimate Q&A session to me... BTW, Pilotpercy, here is another related issue for SC3 developers:Anything docked to an SC3 vessel may not have a space in the name of a vessel. For example, if you dock a soyuztma...

Accelerate the ISS through overzealous use of orbit-boost thrusters.

4throck, I'm sure you will find many developers who could use your help. I for one can't do textures to save my life...my own look terrible!

Hey, welcome. Your interest in learning means you've come to the right place! Enjoy!

Speaking of haunted places... Custer's Last Stand, Little Bighorn. Very spooky place.

You're right, I should have mentioned TMAJ. Actually, I have written scenarios and config files that bypass TMAJ altogether. For instance, a SoyuzTMA-13 mission I created for myself (callsign Titan). But I hear that some people have fuel problems without it...Soyuz appearing with zero...