Interstellar spaceflight

[astr]

Hi, guys!!

I'm having a lot of fun with a new version of orbiter sim! Right now, I'm now 58.59 AU or 8,765,064,000 kilometers away from the sun. I'm now travelling at the speed of 23,130 kilometers per second or 75,866,400 feet per second!! I'm using a Delta glider IV with unlimited fuel and a 4 year oxygen with one astronaut aboard. My desired velocity is about 160,000 kilometers per second or 100,000 miles per second or 528,000,000 feet per second or about 1/3 the speed of light. I got to tell you, on the previous version of orbiter sim I've gone about 3,000 AU or 448,800,000,000 kilometers away from the sun and I did not experience any problems with orbiter sim like losing accuracy:thumbup:

Cheers,
Vincent

 

[Goth]

Ehm... LOL?

Ok, I just can't post a message like this... how can I save my...
Oh, yes, I will post a related picture from Apollo 13 which seems to beat your achievements:

 

[Hielor]

Hi, guys!!

I'm having a lot of fun with a new version of orbiter sim! Right now, I'm now 58.59 AU or 8,765,064,000 kilometers away from the sun. I'm now travelling at the speed of 23,130 kilometers per second or 75,866,400 feet per second!! I'm using a Delta glider IV with unlimited fuel and a 4 year oxygen with one astronaut aboard. My desired velocity is about 160,000 kilometers per second or 100,000 miles per second or 528,000,000 feet per second or about 1/3 the speed of light. I got to tell you, on the previous version of orbiter sim I've gone about 3,000 AU or 448,800,000,000 kilometers away from the sun and I did not experience any problems with orbiter sim like losing accuracy:thumbup:

Cheers,
Vincent

You'll only notice the accuracy loss if you're attempting to perform close manuevers with a station or another craft. In any case, 3000 AU isn't really that far, numerically...

 

[astr]

interstellar spaceflight

Hi, Guys!!

Is there an add-on for orbiter sim 100830 to experience time slowing down(time dilation) effects when approaching the speed of light or will there be any time slowing down (time dilation) effects when approaching the speed of light in the next version of orbiter sim? Very interesting stuff!! Thanks!!

Cheers,
Vincent

 

[Wishbone]

Search for the Black Hole thread by Fizyk.

 

[astr]

instellar spaceflight

Hi, guys!

I'm now travelling at 42,000 kilometers per second or 22,672 nautical miles per second or 137,760,000 feet per second and I'm now about 191 AU or 28,573,600,000 kilometers away from the sun. Since the sun's gravity is very strong, I'm very curious about sun's gravity, do you guys know how far away from the sun you have to be in order for the sun's gravity no longer pulls you towards the sun or when the spacecraft be in uniform rest when the spacecraft is not moving? Thanks!!

Cheers,
Vincent

 

[martins]

do you guys know how far away from the sun you have to be in order for the sun's gravity no longer pulls you towards the sun or when the spacecraft be in uniform rest when the spacecraft is not moving? Thanks!!

I would guess about 5*10^9 light years. Beyond that, nobody even knows that the sun exists. Of course, if you are asking when the sun's gravity effect drops below the noise level from other gravity sources, that's a different story.

Edit: Of course, if you are talking about Orbiter, there be dragons long before that distance.

 

[garyw]

Orbiter doesn't simulate interstellar space therefore the suns influence is infinite.

 

[hribek]

Almost. Eventually you'll find a dragon with a firey breath, spewing rounding errors at you.

I wonder if the Orbiter Simulation core could implement special relativity by 2020.

 

[astr]

Hi, Guys!

Maybe, I can help you guys figure this out for you, I've flown to Jupiter before, in order to achieve stable orbit around Jupiter your velocity have to be at least 59 kilometers per second. I find out when I'm about 1.3 AU or about 200,000,000 kilometers from Jupiter, the Jupiter's gravity will no longer pull you towards Jupiter when the spacecraft is in uniform rest or not moving. Now for the sun, I've flown close to the sun before - about 9,900,000 kilomters from the sun's surface. To achieve stable orbit around the sun at an altitude of about 9,900,000 kilometers above the surface of the sun your velocity have to be at least 800 - 1,000 kilometers per second. I think when I'm about 6,000 AU or 897,600,000,000 kilometers away from the sun, the sun's gravity will no longer pull you towards the sun when the spacecraft is in uniform rest or not moving.

Cheers,
Vincent

 

[Linguofreak]

I would guess about 5*10^9 light years.

Well, without noise from other sources, it would be infinite. You'd just have to be travelling slowly and wait a long time to notice the effects.

 

[astr]

Hi, guys!

You might find this very interesting!!I found out more about the sun's gravity on the internet. You have to be at least 2 light years or 126,480 AU or 18,921,408,000,000 kilomters away from the sun before the sun's gravity no longer pulls you towards it when the spacecraft is in uniform rest or not moving at all. Quite a while ago, I used time acceleration just to experiment to see what happens to orbiter sim when travelling very long distances and the farthest distance I've reached in orbiter sim is I think about 2 parsecs or 6.52 light years or 412,324 AU or 61,683,670,400,000 kilometers away from the sun and I still didn't experience any problems with orbiter sim whatsoever!!:thumbup:

Cheers,
Vincent

 

[DarkEnergy]

Well, without noise from other sources, it would be infinite. You'd just have to be travelling slowly and wait a long time to notice the effects.

It really depends on whether gravity propagates at the speed of light or not. If it does, as relativity says it does, then its influence would indeed only be 5*10^9 light years. If it's instantaneous then the influence would be infinite. I don't know what the latest is for which they think it is...

 

[astr]

Hi, guys!!

My interstellar spaceflight is doing well so far!! I'm now 396 AU or 59,241,600,000 kilometers away from the sun and travelling at the speed of 60,560 kilometers per second or 198,636,800 feet per second or about 32,692 nautical miles per second!!

Cheers,
Vincent

 

[Mister Mxyzptlk]

Let's hope you don't hit a micrometeorite..................................................

 

[astr]

Hi, guys!!

My interstellar spaceflight is going well so far!! I'm now travelling at 77,440 kilometers per second or 254,003,200 feet per second or about 41,804 nautical miles per second and the distance of 646 AU or 96,641,600,000 kilometers away from the sun!!

Cheers,
Vincent

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Hi, guys!!

I forgot to tell you on my last post, at the speed what I'm travelling at right now which is 41,804 nautical miles per second is are you ready to hear this!! Is roughly 2 trips around the earth in 1 second!!!!!!!!!

Cheers,
Vincent

 

[Izack]

Is roughly 2 trips around the earth in 1 second!!!!!!!!!

I can't begin to imagine the centripetal force required to keep you going in a circle around the Earth...

I wonder if that's fast enough to turn back time, à la Superman? :rofl:

 

[jangofett287]

Just a note: Orbiter doesn't simulate the galactic speed limit, so it is theoretically possible to accelerate to infinite speed with limited fuel unchecked, but you will probably run into a previously undiscovered bug, or a rounding error or similar well before you reach the sort of speeds that allow inter-galactic travel.

 

[Bloodworth]

Actually, if you use the flamberge, you can quite easily exceed the speed of light in very short order at full thrust, and not come anywhere NEAR using all her fuel.

 

[astr]

Hi, guys!!

I'm now travelling at 99,100 kilometers per second or 325,048,000 feet per second or 53,497 nautical miles per second and I'm now 1,006 AU or 150,497,600,000 kilometers away from the sun!!! Orbiter sim is still running smoothly!!

Cheers,
Vincent