Orbiter Screenshot Thread

[Izack]

I'm thinking about, what if everyone's space station would be united in one scenario, for everyone to download. That would quite populate our LEO!

The problem with that is...how many space stations will be at 51.6 (ISS) or 7.9 (ideal from Wideawake) degrees inclination (equatorial?) The risk of collisions will be monstrous, looking at how many dozens of rockets the community launches every day. :lol:

3.2GHZ-quad, so 12.8GHZ at all, a good graphic card, etc...

It doesn't work that way. Frequencies don't just add up.

 

[Tex]

The problem with that is...how many space stations will be at 51.6 (ISS) or 7.9 (ideal from Wideawake) degrees inclination (equatorial?) The risk of collisions will be monstrous, looking at how many dozens of rockets the community launches every day. :lol:

:rofl: I didn't consider that! Too funny. Equatorial orbits get boring quick since you miss so much coverage over the planet. I'd only build a station there as a stepping stone to the Moon or interplanetary travel. It would be a small station too so I wouldn't have a ton of vessels in the same scenario I'm traveling the solar system in.

My next space station will be a small orbital outpost in lunar orbit, but getting the pieces there, some what realistically, is.. well... hard! :lol:

 

[FeLUX]

The problem with that is...how many space stations will be at 51.6 (ISS) or 7.9 (ideal from Wideawake) degrees inclination (equatorial?) The risk of collisions will be monstrous, looking at how many dozens of rockets the community launches every day. :lol:

The Altitudes and the Ascending Node make the difference.
And Speaking of myself my Station is at 55° inclination

 

[Wonderer]

If this project picks up then i'm soooooo building a station in a 51.6 inclination retrograde orbit :lol:

 

[n122vu]

I think that's true - but I think mine won't have problems with all these projects i think on my computer... 3.2GHZ-quad, so 12.8GHZ at all, a good graphic card, etc...
might make it to 10 FPS or more.

Slightly off topic for the thread, but I felt worth mentioning.

As Izack mentioned, the frequencies don't just add up with the full core speed values.

Now, granted, my knowledge is based on the way it used to work with machines that had multiple physical processors, but I believe the same holds true for multi-core machines. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the basic 'efficiency' you get from the subsequent processors is as follows:

1st core = 100% = 3.2Ghz
2nd core = 75% = 2.4Ghz
3rd core = 50% = 1.6Ghz
4th core = 25% = 0.8ghz

And then add together = 8Ghz (or roughly the equivalent of)

Again, based on my knowledge of multiple physical cores, and may not be entirely accurate, and may not apply to multiple cores on one die.


Back on topic:
XR2 on the runway, fueled & ready to go, on a resupply mission to the ISS launching from Wideawake.

 

[Izack]

Equatorial orbits get boring quick since you miss so much coverage over the planet. I'd only build a station there as a stepping stone to the Moon or interplanetary travel. It would be a small station too so I wouldn't have a ton of vessels in the same scenario I'm traveling the solar system in.

Exactly why my station is there. :tiphat:
Good luck in lunar orbit! Can I foresee lots of Energiya and Saturn launches? If you're going for semirealism, the Nova SSTO (part of Velcro) might be interesting, though a little easy. The only problem with it is how to fill up all that space inside the fairing. :rofl:

The Altitudes and the Ascending Node make the difference.

Altitude more than nodes. Being in the same inclination with different LAN (well, even different inclinations) still leaves you with an intersection every 20 minutes or so. Altitude is really the key, though spacecraft ascending to meet you still have to deal with lower stations/launch debris.

 

[Kyle]

The future..

 

[Columbia42]

The future..

Last weekend I went to CU Boulder where they are helping design the Dream Chaser and saw a mockup of the spacecraft exterior and cockpit. What addon are you using?

 

[Kyle]

Last weekend I went to CU Boulder where they are helping design the Dream Chaser and saw a mockup of the spacecraft exterior and cockpit. What addon are you using?

[ame="http://orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=1489"]A certain addon..[/ame]

 

[Scruce]

The future..

The far far future...

NOTE: Not my photo.

 

[Hlynkacg]

That would be great to have everyone's space station in orbit. We could make a grand tour of everyone's station.

I would love to see this project take off

Unfortunately, the down side to building your own space station is the sheer number of vessels in the scenario. The one I'm working on now will have 37 vessels in the scenario once completed, and that's not even counting the space shuttle, XR5, or any DG4's, XR2s, etc. you may by flying to the station.

If you can get the various author's permissions you could use the Blorbiter (Blender-Orbiter) plugin or something similar to merge multiple meshes into a single vessel.

and because this is a screen shot thread...

 

[Pipcard]

Hatsune Miku XR2

[ame="http://orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=5340"]http://orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=5340[/ame]

 

[IronRain]

Lift-off of Skylab-2, almost a week ago

Top view

Climbing to orbit

SL-2 is aligned and GO for docking

 

[Kyle]

Does this count as 'wishful thinking'?

DreamChaser, Manned Dragon & MPCV on a Delta IV Heavy all ready to go.

 

[clickypens]

That would be great to have everyone's space station in orbit. We could make a grand tour of everyone's station.

Unfortunately, the down side to building your own space station is the sheer number of vessels in the scenario. The one I'm working on now will have 37 vessels in the scenario once completed, and that's not even counting the space shuttle, XR5, or any DG4's, XR2s, etc. you may by flying to the station.

Would it be possible to grab the mesh of the station and make out a simple cfg for it? Isn't that what Universal Shipyard (what's it called again?) do, more or less?

 

[Chub777]

The Altitudes and the Ascending Node make the difference.
And Speaking of myself my Station is at 55° inclination

Mine is at 51.6° inclination. I propose the stations be undocked and all you have to do is align, sync and dock.

 

[Richy]

Don't worry, space is big. The chance of a direct hit is quite small, but there could be some interessting high-speed flybys.

 

[Tex]

Centauri Space Station - Flight #9 completed late last night. South America is on the left horizon and you can just see Antarctica on the right horizon.

It's amazing how much you can see and how much better things look up here at 500km. I surely won't be hitting ISS at least! :lol:

EDIT - Here's another angle and a night shot with the Moon in the background:

 

[Loru]

yet another test launch

 

[Chub777]

A manned Falcon 9 sits on the pad:

Max Q:

1st stage separation:

Fairing separation:

MECO:

The manned Dragon craft:

Deployed:

Nearing the station:

Closer:

Even more closer:

Hard dock:

EVA coverage later.:lol: