Orbiter Screenshot Thread

[Castor]

A clichéd image, nevertheless it was a challenge to pause at the right moment:

I think was coming on a bit right...

STS-121 Discovery

 

[IronRain]

Busy times aboard the Polar Earth Observatory. The first Next-Gen Apollo docked this morning to start a 2 week mission aboard the station.

 

[Castor]

Just for fun...

 

[Yurik]

Static for now

Work still on progress. Only recently determined the structure of the base.

 

[SolarLiner]

Welcome the Canberra International Airport, part of the Canberra DSCC add-on I'm about to release:

By the fact the surface tiles are shared by woth the Canberra DSCC and the airport, I needed a third "base" that would contain all the tiles. Because the airport CFG is named "Canberra_Airport" and the tiles base "Canberra_Tiles", the tiles gets rendered after the runway, but D3D9 lights are still there. So the runway exists, it is just behind the tiles. Which is cool, too

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

Apparently this thing below was launched several hours ago, which means that I finally got to cover every single nation on this world that can launch something into orbit.

Report coming soon.... :tiphat:

 

[Pipcard]

Launch of STS-157

 

[Castor]

A big thanks to Piper for his Chariklo addon! :thumbup:

 

[IronRain]

A big thanks to Piper for his Chariklo addon! :thumbup:

Cool! Still planning my mission to it:thumbup:

 

[paddy2]

Delta glider monitors callsign "CargoOne", a ShuttleA as it docks into The Wheel "HotelOne" prior to dropping off supplies to Luna2 Base

 

[Piper]

A big thanks to Piper for his Chariklo addon! :thumbup:

Nice! What trajectory did you use to get out to Chariklo?

 

[Castor]

Nice! What trajectory did you use to get out to Chariklo?

Used a Earth-Venus-Earth-Jupiter sling to get there. The sling at Earth was powered, about 100-120 m/s. Not the most efficient route, but I managed to get there. And all thanks to Piper's Trajectory Planner, which I think is the only program of its sort which allows custom bodies to be defined.

 

[boogabooga]

Arrowstar's does as well.

 

[Dantassii]

I just finished Lunar Station assembly mission 136 and I'm wondering if there are any folks out there who would like to see some new pictures of it under construction? I last posted some screen captures after mission 108 a few months back and there's been a LOT of new stuff added since then although I'm still looking at another 20-30 missions before I reach about the half way point of the main assembly sequence.

If there's any interest, I'll post some updated screen captures this weekend.

Dantassii
HUMONGOUS IMS shipbuilder

 

[Castor]

Arrowstar's does as well.

Yes, but it requires the download of SPICE files. On the other hand, Trajectory Planner allows entry of the orbital elements directly from the config file.

 

[dgatsoulis]

A big thanks to Piper for his Chariklo addon! :thumbup:

Nice! Rendezvous or flyby?

 

[Castor]

Nice! Rendezvous or flyby?

Flyby, though I had the fuel to do a rendezvous. Closest approach: 20 km

 

[dgatsoulis]

Flyby, though I had the fuel to do a rendezvous. Closest approach: 20 km

Nicely done. At 23.41° wrt to the ecliptic, Chariklo can be a tricky target. IIRC the Chapman probe has a dV budget of ~3 km/s, correct?

 

[Castor]

Nicely done. At 23.41° wrt to the ecliptic, Chariklo can be a tricky target.

Though I managed to bring down my approach to about 20 km, the orbital inclination was way off. In the end, I had something like a polar orbit, perpendicular to the rings.

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Liftoff of the Zarya module in November, 1998 :

 

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Space Hotel