Orbiter Screenshot Thread

[IronRain]

 

[Keatah]

MarsPlanes

I have a few screenshots of x-plane (back in the day when it was a new simulator) that show several planes for flight on mars. In most cases, the runways are long, and the approach speeds really high, 300-400 knots.

2 of them are sci-fi.
1 is a realistic nasa study
1 is rocket powered

The thrust vectoring rocket powered learjet is quite the ****kicker alright! Loads of fun to manually regulate the lifters' power and direction while transitioning to aerodynamic flight.. and back again for a hover landing. It's quite the sight to fly an airliner-style approach tail-first at high speed using full thrust for braking. Then pivoting around 180 to land normally somewhere near the threshold.

I'll have to find these ancient screenshots. Perhaps they can seed some ideas.

 

[Spacethingy]

In Space, No-one Can Hear You... um... do cheesy movie score impersonations?

 

[Donamy]

Cygnus being berthed to Harmony nadir.

 

[4throck]

XR2 in TAP colors lifts off from Beja!

 

[Pablo49]

Greetings. May I present to you the newest virtual space agency in town: VSA Space Agency.

VSA Space Agency has acquired one (1) Themis-A for testing purposes. This first Themis-A has been christened MaiWaifu-I. Here you can see MARSROVER atop MaiWaifu-I on the pad ready for launch.

fig. 1. MaiWaifu-I at launch complex

Godspeed, MaiWaifu. Godspeed.

 

[IronRain]

Greetings. May I present to you the newest virtual space agency in town: VSA Space Agency.

VSA Space Agency has acquired one (1) Themis-A for testing purposes. This first Themis-A has been christened MaiWaifu-I. Here you can see MARSROVER atop MaiWaifu-I on the pad ready for launch.

fig. 1. MaiWaifu-I at launch complex

Godspeed, MaiWaifu. Godspeed.

Virtual space agency space agency?
Everything seems a little.. Blue?

Good luck though!


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[Pipcard]

This first Themis-A has been christened MaiWaifu-I. Here you can see MARSROVER atop MaiWaifu-I on the pad ready for launch.

fig. 1. MaiWaifu-I at launch complex

Godspeed, MaiWaifu. Godspeed.

I like the color.

 

[N_Molson]

Cygnus being berthed to Harmony nadir.

Wow. Those kind of ISS pics are fantastic to get an "instant view" of the station configuration. :thumbup:

 

[Pablo49]

Virtual space agency space agency?

Of course!

I like the color.

For future reference, the color is VSA Cyan (copyright VSA Space Agency 2031) (patents pending)

MaiWaifu-I launches from VSA launch Complex

Max Q

so purdy doe

Have fun on Mars, rover!

Mission success!

 

[Izack]

An Arrow over Delhi.

 

[4throck]

Coming soon, the ATM B LEM derived observatory.
Can fly autonomous unmanned or dock to Skylab B. Both stages have telescopes and simple VCs.

 

[james12]

wow, nice pics over there. Thanks for sharing...:thumbup:

 

[Qapla]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30471778/moon_LROC_L11.zip

Id love to get my hands on that, dead link for me, cant find it anywhere now.

edit: ok found it ignore this

 

[Scav]

Constitution cleared for flight.
Monday, 10 May 2021 15:43 UTC



Orbiter Vehicle Constitution was declared provisionally flight-worthy today, pursuant to a brief ceremony at Kennedy Space Center's Orbiter Processing Facility #4. NASA's crew transfer and materials-handling orbiter was towed the short distance from KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility last month prior to the completion of eight of twelve Major Systems Checkups. She remained berthed in OPF#4 while completion of the remaining checkups proceeded.

The orbiter, having completed a ten month Orbiter Maintenance Down Period (OMDP) following the successful completion of SEP-010, has been the subject of intense scrutiny and review. The entire spaceframe had been disassembled completely and inspected in detail, and the reconstruction of the vessel lasted two months beginning in January of this year.

To date, no plans for flying Constitution have been announced, but officials and management are talking about the possibility of flying her this year to begin her full recertification trials. Enterprise remains grounded at Edwards Air Force Base pursuant to her own ongoing OMDP which is close to completion.

 

[Cras]

Good catch from lunar orbit . Xr-2 vessel

May I ask what kind of edits you did to your Earth? It looks...way too dark there.

 

[mojoey]

Constitution cleared for flight.



To date, no plans for flying Constitution have been announced, but officials and management are talking about the possibility of flying her this year to begin her full recertification trials. Enterprise remains grounded at Edwards Air Force Base pursuant to her own ongoing OMDP which is close to completion.

Oh goodie Does this mean we get to follow the gang on their wacky hijinks in space?

 

[Qapla]

Funniest photobomb ive ever seen that.

 

[Koloss]

Blixel,

I hope you don't mind that I'll take you with me to Mars as my Engineer.
I learned so much by watching all your videos - so for all technical issues I thought that you would be the perfect crewmember!

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While trying to eastablish a stable orbit around Europa I catched this nice view.

 

[Ripley]

My name is not Ellen!!! :rofl: