An interesting course about hypersonic flight I found by accident.

From engines to aerodynamics.

Course's homepage here.

Youtube videos here.

In response to a growing space market, Apexset is to undergo a major organisational restructure to compete more effectively in this newly promising field, including the adoption of the latest modelling software and a new corporate identity - Eclipse Systems.

A new slate of projects has also been announced, including the Pyrios booster for NASA's Space Launch System, and development of the Sea Dragon big dumb booster (BDB) for potential manned flights to Mars; the first prototype is...

Okay, I've corrected the problems of reflections and textures. I had a problem to tell to Orbiter where are the touchdown points, because I don´t knew the mesh coordinates, and I did not knew how to find them.
Thanks to SolarLiner who told me how to find them using the 3D axes feature in Orbiter visual helpers.

Some time ago I wrote a story about spaceships, and others topics. But due to I'm not a good writer, in 2009 I decided to start drawing the ships that I imagined in 3D, and I learned to draw in Google SketchUp.

This is how it looks currently the 7z folder where I store useless junk my models (407MB).
When I found Orbiter 2010, I decided to create my ships for Orbiter, but also found a lot of impossibilities...

Hi everyone,

This will be the first of many upcoming biweekly blog posts. Realistically speaking, there may be times where I post weekly, but I will refrain from appearing inactive or passive by not posting for longer than two weeks. Anyway, hopefully this initial article will shed some light on any unanswered questions.

Suggestions, requests, or propositions for the project can be made here: http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=32936

Alternatively,...