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On reading the new STS-107 report, one thing I find amazing is how long the ship stayed intact after losing control. Columbia was a tough ship, and hung on a lot longer through much worse attitudes than I thought possible, almost a full minute cartwheeling through the sky at the wrong angle, and...

Time for me to plug my own solution, BurnTimeMFD. This one will help you calculate both burn magnitude and TIG. Go get it at OrbitHangar. After ascent, put the CRT into ops 105, and bring up BurnTimeMFD on some other panel. Switch the mode "MOD" to apoapse, then press the "CIR" circularize...

Checked in some changes to RSLS. Most visible is the hardstand mesh is now used by the LC39A vessel and there is a visible "twang" (bending of the stack) just before launch. The twang is implemented by moving the attachment point on the MLP, therefore the twang is only visible when the shuttle...

A newer and improved-er version of your favorite BurnTimeCalc MFD. Now with Autoburn to perform burns with high precision relative to periapse, apoapse, or a user-settable time in the future. Now also with Auto-circularization and other improvements. It sort-of takes the place of the old Shift-W...

Post the rest of the error message, but I think I saw something like this as well yesterday. The MLP project file needs to have some ignores added to it. I copied the linker settings from Atlantis, and then played with them until it worked. I have: SSU_Pad->Properties->Linker->Input Input...

Thread Necromancy! I was thinking about this a while back and I think there is a plausible way to do it with currently known physics, just not yet currently known engineering: Polywell fusion - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell I don't completely understand how this works, but it looks...

PegasusXL air-launched launch vehicle and AIM spacecraft. This is a first cut, expect further improvements. Brought to you by the fine folks at St. Kwan's Home for the Terminally ADD.

PEG Launch autopilot. This is intended to be a general-purpose launch autopilot, capable of taking any launch vehicle into a particularly-targeted orbit. It's still very rough, and can't control all launch vehicles, but it does well with the stock Atlantis. When it works, it is an extremely...

!!!WARNING WARNING WARNING!!! This will OVERWRITE the existing modules and textures for the stock Atlantis. Back up the folders Meshes/Atlantis, Textures/Atlantis, and Textures2/Atlantis, and the modules Atlantis_SRB.dll, Atlantis_Tank.dll, MG_Atlantis.dll, and startup/AtlantisConfig.dll if you...

Kwan Systems Glideslope from Kwan Astrodynamics a division of Kwan Systems Glideslope is a reentry assistant program, designed specifically for the Space Shuttle, but may be applicable to other spacecraft. Copyright (c) 2006,2009 Chris Jeppesen. Licensed under the Gnu LGPL UPDATED to...

This is a simple accelerometer, created for rfoshauq on the Orbiter forums, in response to this post: orbit.m6.net/Forum/default.aspx?g=posts&t=9508 To install it, unpack this zip, using folder names, and turn on the Accelerometer module with the Orbiter Launchpad. It then becomes an MFD...