Orbiter Screenshot Thread

[80mileshigh]

A closer look at the new Deepstar model in Orbiter 2016:

Note the inset RCS - this was a request from the development thread 8 years ago. I got completely stuck trying to implement it and gave up.

Last year I thought, 'hey, why not just rebuild the whole model?'

 

[DaveS]

Good morning Launch Complex 39:

 

[DaveS]

Here's one of the VAB/LCC east side showing the nice golden glow of sunrise as seen from the LC 39 Press Site.

 

[Pioneer]

A night takeoff from Mars, into sunrise.

 

[80mileshigh]

The trouble with modelling a 70s spaceplane concept is it's like a gateway drug and you have to do more - like build a 70s station concept to fly it to ...

 

[n72.75]

The trouble with modelling a 70s spaceplane concept is it's like a gateway drug and you have to do more - like build a 70s station concept to fly it to ...

Oh! I'm very interested. What is this based on?

 

[80mileshigh]

Oh! I'm very interested. What is this based on?

The Station is a McDonnell Douglas study from 1970. It would launch on a Saturn INT-21 then telescope out. It would be spun around its centre of gravity for rotational gravity up to 0.7g - although this was planned only as an initial experiment and it would spend most of its life as a zero-G station.

There's a nice write up of the initial presentation by McDonnell Douglas here:
https://www.wired.com/2012/06/mcdonnell-douglas-phase-b-12-man-space-station-1970/

The original presentation and other documents concerning the station are on NTRS. The abundance of descriptions and diagrams and artists impressions make it a great candidate for an Orbiter add-on.

The spaceplane is even more exotic - I'll post more about it at some point (there's a screenshot on the previous page).

 

[MarkWatney2015]

Pioneer 10 at Jupiter (Orbiter 2016)

 

[n72.75]

Throwback...Tuesday

 

[MarkWatney2015]

Pioneer 11 arriving at Saturn (Orbiter 2016)

 

[n72.75]

There's this thing too:

circa 2007 I think?

 

[jarmonik]

DeltaGlider Landed on Phobos.

 

[Lucy]

DeltaGlider Landed on Phobos.

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Beautiful!

 

[4throck]

Skylab B

 

[Tycho]

Testing new image posting...

Edit: easy!

 

[pappy2]

 

[Mojave]

Had to test the new Orbiter Sound. Never get tired of this view.

 

[4throck]

Apollo Cargo Vehicle (LM derived tug) and Apollo HAB (habitation module for long duration missions) separating from the upper stage.

 

[4throck]

Skylab B with the ATM B, HAB module and Apollo docked.


The Apollo Tug, HAB and ATM B modules are recreated for Orbiter 2016 using Vessel Builder, and will be launched using Multistage Saturns.
Skylab B remains as Spacecraft4 for the moment.

 

[MarkWatney2015]

Voyager 1 at Saturn (Orbiter 2016)

....and the beginning of its way to interstellar space