Orbiter Screenshot Thread

[Nikogori]

Ceres flyby mission using Falcon9 + Chapman module

Launch



1st stage flyback was not available for this mission.





Ceres flyby (orbit insertion is hard!)





Hail probe!

 

[MarkWatney2015]

Ulysses approaching Jupiter (2016)....

 

[Kyle]

I've gone full Kerbal.

Boosters are two 5 segment SRBs, 4 GEM63XL boosters to help with TWR. 5 segment SRB as the center stage doesn't ignite until after the side boosters burn out. Second stage is famandy's second stage from the awesome Neptune launcher.

Total payload to LEO: 74,000 kg. More than FH.

 

[GLS]

I've gone full Kerbal.

Boosters are two 5 segment SRBs, 4 GEM60XL boosters to help with TWR. 5 segment SRB as the center stage doesn't ignite until after the side boosters burn out. Second stage is famandy's second stage from the awesome Neptune launcher.

Total payload to LEO: 74,000 kg. More than FH.

You get more if you use FWC segments instead of metal....

 

[Kyle]

Or I could just strap on some more boosters

 

[GLS]

Or I could just strap on some more boosters

But then it's just to much noise for the neighbours... ?

 

[Kyle]

Well, didn't add more boosters, just replaced them with the Orbital ATK Dark Knight conceptual ones.

Payload to LEO: 105,000 kg, a little less than the Saturn V.

I don't think anything that big would fit inside the payload fairing though! So maybe better suited for interplanetary missions.

 

[4throck]

D3D9 terrain flattening allows me to have back the detailed meshes for the Apollo 18 EVA's !
It's seamless when driving around, and not that bad on more distant views.
Very happy for being able to have detailed EVAs in Orbiter 2016. Looking forward to update the Apollo 18 addon

 

[MarkWatney2015]

Galileo bidding farewell to Earth for the final time in 1992....

 

[BEEP]

Hey! Wasn't this a space navigation and exploration simulator?
Yeah , and the best that there is.

 

[gattispilot]

New and improved LDEF

 

[Donamy]

John,
Did you fix all your RMS problems ?

 

[gattispilot]

I think so

 

[1987VCRProductions]

December 18, 1958, an Atlas-B soars into orbit for Project SCORE, becoming the first purpose built communications satellite and broadcasting the first human voice from space.

 

[80mileshigh]

Off the West Saharan coast:

 

[Pioneer]

An XR2 Takes off from Brighton at sunrise

 

[1987VCRProductions]

Pioneer 10 at Jupiter. This isn't the most recent Pioneer add-on but the original. Still working on updating the Old-Atlas-Series to Orbiter 2016. I've finished the Atlas Agena, the Atlas ICBMs, and the Atlas Able. I'm currently working on perfecting the Atlas Centaur which is most of the way complete.

I learned two new things actually: The solid fueled kick stage for Pioneer 10 and 11 was a Star 37E, rather than the standard Star 37, and those missions were flown on a direct ascent trajectory to Jupiter, skipping a parking orbit.

I was able to replicate the direct ascent on Pioneer 10 using Interplanetary MFD:

 

[1987VCRProductions]

Pioneer 11 at Saturn.

 

[1987VCRProductions]

A rough facsimile of Pioneer P-30 in orbit around the Moon, September 1960.

It was the closest an Atlas Able ever came to succeeding, so I thought it would make an interesting "what if" scenario if the U.S. had managed to put something in lunar orbit 6 years before the U.S.S.R. would do with Luna 10. The spacecraft specs are correct down to the fuel, engine isp, weight, and thrust, but I used the generic Velcro Luna 3 mesh as a placeholder since I don't have a proper mesh for that series of Pioneer spacecraft. The transit time from launch to the Moon was ~64 hours. Insertion into a 6,800km x 7,000km orbit on 90 newtons of thrust takes nearly 22 minutes.

 

[MarkWatney2015]

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A rough facsimile of Pioneer P-30 in orbit around the Moon, September 1960.

It was the closest an Atlas Able ever came to succeeding, so I thought it would make an interesting "what if" scenario if the U.S. had managed to put something in lunar orbit 6 years before the U.S.S.R. would do with Luna 10. The spacecraft specs are correct down to the fuel, engine isp, weight, and thrust, but I used the generic Velcro Luna 3 mesh as a placeholder since I don't have a proper mesh for that series of Pioneer spacecraft. The transit time from launch to the Moon was ~64 hours. Insertion into a 6,800km x 7,000km orbit on 90 newtons of thrust takes nearly 22 minutes.

If you want to create a mesh for Pioneer P-30, this image might help

I think Pioneer 5 is also built in the same model as P-30