Orbiter Screenshot Thread

[N_Molson]

Go for TLI !



Thorton's patched Proton LV allows you to launch it's excellent Soyuz-TMA ! :thumbup:

And yes with the block DM2 and the Soyuz propellant you have enough Dv for a free return trajectory. But really no more, it's pushing the spacecraft to it's limits !!

Next I'll will try the Zond-config : launching the Soyuz without the BO. That should give some Dv margin.

 

[Izack]

Thanks Woo for the pointer. Don't know what I was thinking...

Anyway, here I am, hangin' out with my PSA by the ISS...in a purple radio sky! :thumbup:

 

[Keatah]

Painting with Orbiter -- is like Photoshop with Orbital Mechanics!

 

[Chub777]

Established a temporary base on Europa, ready to commence drilling operations.

What's the drill add-on?

 

[dgatsoulis]

What's the drill add-on?

Something i'm working on, not an addon yet.

 

[Chub777]

Something i'm working on, not an addon yet.

I see. Well, good luck on it.:tiphat:

EDIT: I have established a lunar base to mine out lunar soil. After completing the 2 day mission, the Arrow lifted off (the XR2 will join later in LLO):

Ascending:

Main engines turned on to get into LLO (the XR2 is now inside, thanks to Scenario Editor):

After getting into LLO and Warp-driving to Earth, I started tumbling for some reason (overloaded Arrow?):

After panicking, I opened the bay doors and got ready to fall to Earth in the XR2:

Because I docked the XR2 with the Editor, 1) There was no pilot in it 2) The XR2 overheated and 3) it won't let me transfer crew (even with the Editor). I ended up burning up:

While the crew burned up, I remembered I had some ISRUs in the payload bay.

With a final shine of hope, the non-burned crew pressed the "Deploy Crew Elevator" button, hoping to bail out. Instead the whole thing came crashing down near KSC:

The impact was so strong, it disconnected the XR2 and made it burn up without moving (I'm that good).

REMEMBER: Always have a pilot in a docked craft.

 

[Wolfer]

Astronauts leave a lunar base after a 4 months stay.

 

[Istochnikov]

An Aeroflot Russian Airlines charter taking off from the Cape on return flight to Moscow and Saint Petersburg

 

[Rocketman527]

My first asteroid rendezvous! 400mx400m orbit around Apophis. The rendezvous burn wasn't as accurate as I would've liked and I ended up "stopping" about 5 km from perapsis, but I cant complain!

 

[Chub777]

Re-entry and landing at WIN:

Probably my first accurate landing.

 

[N_Molson]

Nice one, congrats ! :thumbup:

Looks like you were a little off-axis with the runway, though

 

[mc_]

Looks good for the first time. But IMHO you dont need to deploy landing gear so high and far from landing site.

 

[Star Voyager]

Here is Space Shuttle Investigator, something I made in honor of the abandoned Arctic research ship that was found. I used moe's Shuttle no name add-on as a starting point (thank you :tiphat:!):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100729/ap_on_re_ca/cn_canada_franklin_ship_found

[ame="http://orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3357"]Shuttle replacement textures (no name)[/ame]

 

[PhantomCruiser]

I just read that story myself. Good thinking! (as long as she doens't meet the same fate as her namesake)

 

[silent_protagonist]

DSV Evenstar performing a very long insertion burn over Enceladus, on her way to setting up a permanent base.

 

[Star Voyager]

Another "what if" STS scenario, what if Challenger were with us today:

 

[KiwiBiggles]

A quick experiment ...

IRAS image projected on the celestial sphere. I got the image from here:

http://www.chromoscope.net/

The site has other wavelengths as well. I'll try them all. :thumbup:
If it works ok, I'll add support for background textures as an option to the next beta.

Wow! That is really cool. I'd love to be able to play Orbiter with a background image of the galactic plane - what an awesome way to appreciate mankinds's place in the cosmos...

Can I put in a vote for the recent stunner from Planck?

Edit: I checked out Chromoscope.net and see they have it already!

I'm just new here, but thanx so much Martin for an amazing program, I'm really enjoying it. It should be in every physics teacher's classroom too, IMHO!

All the best
KiwiBiggles

 

[fireballs619]

I was messing with GIMP filters to try to get realistic looking screen shots, but got something kinda cool. It isn't much, but it's something.

 

[N_Molson]

Looks like a lifing body prototype in the 50's :thumbup:

 

[Star Voyager]

I was thinking along the lines of an infrared image of the XR-2.

EDIT: Come to think of it, it actually looks like it's being filmed on an early 1960's TV camera.