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Ships from Literature

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The spaceship 'Galileo' gets its shuttle ready to explore a habitable moon of a gas giant of a distant star.

The 'Galileo' is featured in Allen Steele's novel Spindrift. This is a simplified model of the websites cover shot, using a standard DeltaGlider as shuttle and Donatelo's Upsilon Andromedae as star system.

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The EASS Galileo is using its fusion drive just above the atmosphere of a gas giant, slowing down its speed to rendevous with a potentially habitable moon. The large ring is not a centrifuge, but part of the futuristic 'diametric drive' which allowed the Galileo to travel with a significant fraction of the speed of light between solar systems.

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The EASS Galileo low above Phobos. The ship's shadow is visible on the ground below.
 
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Who wants ISS-CREAM !!!
 

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Some of my pics !

Hey, I want to post some pictures too ! :)
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And I did that two weeks ago, I dont know why.
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EDIT : En route to my first interplanetary voyage, in direction of Saturn ! :O
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Look at the size of this thing!

XR-2 dwarfed by XR-5 in LEO





 

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Arrow Freighter class Gaia MK2 made it to Saturn !

Wow I forgot how big the XR5 was ! Good pics. :thumbup:

By the way, I MADE IT ! :woohoo:

Thank you Holy Probe ! :hailprobe:

Gaia MK2, the Arrow Freighter build by Spacetech for the Agence Spatiale Francophone finally arrived to Saturn after 5 years of voyage ! :)

And it is my first successful interplanetary voyage with IMFD, the other one was with a DGIV to Jupiter with the vanilla Transfer MFD.

Here is some pics !
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I am so happy right now. :lol:

EDIT : Skin now available to download here : http://francophone.dansteph.com/?page=addon&id=243&language=english
 
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I seem to remember the XR5 being affectionately referred to in the past as a space whale or something like that. It's the inspiration for one of the 3 spacecraft ideas I've been tossing around in my head recently called the Orca. Going to need to get some sort of CFD package working before that one becomes a reality though.
 
A small flight for you, a milestone for this noob ;)

Nothing to write home about, but here are some pictures of my first close-encounter with Mars, flying the XR2.

Taught me a lot about TransX, much more than what I thought I had understood doing Earth-Moon runs.

Proper Mars landings are still a challenge though :rofl:

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I seem to remember the XR5 being affectionately referred to in the past as a space whale or something like that. It's the inspiration for one of the 3 spacecraft ideas I've been tossing around in my head recently called the Orca. Going to need to get some sort of CFD package working before that one becomes a reality though.
Were the Delta-glider (stock, XR1, DGIV), XR2, and XR5 even simulated in CFD?
 
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Haumea

Haumea with ring, according to latest discovery.
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I used anim8tor ring script,set the length to zero so the texture is uniform.The transparent texture is not recognized in orbiter so use some emissive then copy/paste ring then flip normals.:thumbup:
 
Another shot from STS-88
Zarya in russian means "sunrise" and here we are: this shot has been taken at orbital sunrise on December 7th 1998 at 02:45 UTC and the Shuttle RMS has just ungrappled Zarya after berthing her to Unity. This is somehow the birth of the ISS

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