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HakalaFilm is proud to present 'Storm Crag' - the 3rd episode of our series. Now set in Summer, with 45:30 yet a bit longer than the previous part, set in breathtaking landscapes and done with quite some more experience in camera movements and special effects - our best movie so far! Enjoy!

New effort by FG contributors to create a more detailed scenery for Florida. Much more detailed vectorized shorelines. And now the benefits of geodata toolchains can be leveraged - OSM2City creates lots of buildings in the vicinity as 3d structures - not only around the VAB, but also...

Not this year, but I plan to go next year again (it's quite the trip from central Finland to Lelystad, so I don't do this every year).

The OMS kit (1500 fps variant) installed in the payload bay Weight of the support structure is now more accurate, and all three variants (500 fps, 1000 fps, and 1500 fps) can be chosen for your propellant needs. I guess someone eventually needs test CoG shifts and abort dynamics - I suppose...

Thanks a lot - in hindsight, that's kind of the obvious solution... *goes writing some code*

Hm, I understood the question as 'Could the Shuttle theoretically continue the mission for a few days and then de-orbit'. The question of whether a de-orbit at the next suitable opportunity is possible seems a bit easier, here I agree, entering the time and standard PEG-4 parameters will do...

I suppose the main issue would be cross track distance to the landing site - there's no moving map or so in the Shuttle avionics, but assuming that the astronauts know the orbital inclination, can look out and have a map, they should be able to get this okay. The on-board software can then be...

You need to have two things a) a fast numerical tool that computes the Delta v loss for a given trajectory (which needs to know the atmosphere of the target object of course and the spacecraft drag properties) b) an optimizer which runs fits over the tool in a) and adjusts parameters such that...

Since the first people started to hack (manually trading payload weight against OMS fuel) to reach into higher orbits, I've decided to do it properly and interface an optional OMS Kit as payload. So this can now be selected as payload and connected to the cross-feeding manifold regularly -...

Call me an egoist, but I as a pedestrian/cyclist would never accept that cars are legal that opt to sacrifice me in a given situation for the sake of the passengers because of some immoral attitude and would give my vote to any party which proposes to ban such cars. So there's that - it's not...

It's actually not that hard to do the full shbang - I have an abstract interior description of the Shuttle flightdeck for the simulation of floating objects, and that works decently most of the time even for the comparatively small manual. Basically it's a factorized parametrization using first...

Well, that's one of the provisions of 'fair use'. So in the context at hand (using Orbiter and an Addon for a visualization) I would strongly suspect that 'fair use' would be acceptable if nothing else is - that'd allow you to use it without holding copyright (and dodges the question who holds...

To the degree that you arrange visual elements in a certain order (like a photographer in real life would do for a studio picture) for the screenshot, that could be seen as an artistic achievement in its own right. Upon reading some (rather contradictory) statements about screenshots taken from...

Um... explain please?

Actually, while morally questionable, my understanding is that legally such credit is not required - the copyright of software which has the purpose to bring things on-screen does not extend to screen captures (think how often Microsoft could claim screenshots when the Windows desktop is visible...)

Certainly much different. But in the US fastfood chains print 'Careful - beverage may be hot' on coffee cups and microwaves come with the hint that they're not suitable for drying animals. It's a culture were it's common to blame someone if things go wrong and where lawyers make good money of...

The astronauts don't pay for the program - the taxpayer does. The question is what risk the taxpayer (and by extension the politicians) considers acceptable and at what point they will start to whack the administrators. Assume a serious accident occurs and a crew gets killed under huge news...

Typically before something happens, people say things like the above - one needs to take a risk. After something happens, everyone agrees that that particular risk should have been anticipated and prevented. So generally it seems prudent to try to anticipate as many risks as possible (there's...

Am I a pessimist or a realist when I say that I believed this was bound to happen (and will happen again), nobody should kid oneself that spaceflight is a risk-free game because 'now we've figured it all out'? I don't think the rocket is more or less safe than it was - accidents generally seem...

The preview for the fourth episode 'The Fairy Ring' is now online - we were fortunate enough to work with actors from the local theater for the 'fairy enchantment' scenes, which really makes things come alive. We plan to publish this next spring, we just have to record the material now, but...