Orbiter Screenshot Thread

[IronRain]

Today, at 17:51:39 UTC, a Long March 2F rocket blasted of to start the Skylab-6 mission. 3 taikonauts will man Skylab-II for a month. They will assist during the relocation of Neesys and they will berth the first unmanned resupply craft, SpaceX's Dragon, to the station. They will also prepare the station for the arrival of the Skylab-7 mission, which will be performed by the Russians with their Buran spacecraft.

T-1 minute, 30 seconds

Lift-off!

Leaving china below and behind us

Booster separation

Good staging

Fairing separation

First sun rise of the mission, at T+6 minutes

SECO!

Spacecraft separation!

Solarpanel deployed and tracking the sun

And a picture of the other side

The solar panels on the orbital/docking module are not being used when it's still attached to the Shenzhou spacecraft. If the module would fly on its own, the solar panel are deployed so it can charge its batteries.

(not sure why the images are resized..)

 

[donatelo200]

Well I'm back from Dc. Also how does this look for a base on a lunar like body?

Gliese 581 titanium mine.

Viewing Gl 581 D from D I.

I think i'm gonna go for it and make an alien-like city with stock textures on Gl 581 G. What do you people think of this?

 

[Yoda]

Hey Ironrain, how did you get the docking version ??
Would love to have that one !
:thumbup:

 

[IronRain]

Hey Ironrain, how did you get the docking version ??
Would love to have that one !
:thumbup:

PM'd you

Leaving the earth-moon system. Those 2 planets are not the earth and the moon, but the moon and Jupiter

 

[N_Molson]

Delta Glider Rendered in Blender Cycles

Wow. It definitively proves you don't need a super-high-poly mesh to get very nice pictures :thumbup:

 

[Hlynkacg]

Anachronism Stew

View image in gallery​

It took all of my Ascent Engine and 86% of my RCS's propellant but I was able to safely launch my Lunar Module from Brighton Beach and rendevous with LUNA OB-1. :thumbup:

 

[Scav]

:facepalm:



The . . . uh . . . object circled in yellow was my external tank.

Subsequent to a SRB failure just a minute after liftoff, a return to launch site abort was performed. After the SRB's separated, it was a fight to keep the hdot zeroed out whilst burning in the reciprocal direction; pitch was at 60-70 degrees up for most of the way back.

Was able to keep the orbiter in the upper atmosphere, using the three good SSME's and a lengthy OMS assist until about 40 miles out. With most of the fuel in the tank expended, the decision was made to jettison the ET within sight of the shoreline.

At first . . . the haphazard hope was that the orbiter was going to remain aerodynamically viable to join the HAC and return to base.

The external tank . . . was a secondary thought -- though of still nagging importance. At first, it looked like the tank was going to sail right over central Florida at mach 2, and impact somewhere west of Tampa in the Gulf.

Nope. At 35,000 feet, aerodynamic drag got the best of the tank, and it PLUMMETED.

Here it is, about to herald my imminent arrival with a massive conflaguration southeast of the runway.

At least it's not in a human-inhabited area . . .

 

[mojoey]

Some poor bastard probably parked his car there...

 

[NovaSilisko]

I'll just leave this here...

 

[IronRain]

Today was the launch of the Italians on their mission to the moon. They will prepare Pangea base for upcoming Italian moon missions.

Lift-off!

Cleared the pad

Staging

Second stage ignition, LES and fairing separation

Staging of the 2 - 3 stage

Coasting to TLI

TLI

3 hours later, CSM separation

Turning around

Approaching for docking

Docking and extraction!

And a quick look back at yesterday, Skylab 6 docked with the Skylab-II Space Station!

 

[Mikeol1987]

been messing around with space odyssey today, made some landings:

aries landing, southwest of Neander Crater, 22 June 2012 (looking northeast)

southwest of Neander Crater (looking southwest)

 

[Pipcard]

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[liber]

 

[Donamy]

Firebreathing Dragon.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

Taking a Soyuz out for a spin around the ISS....

 

[liber]

WIP

 

[Mojave]

I don't think I quite added enough "Lens Flare"

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Going for the Michael Bay effect?

 

[Mojave]

Going for the Michael Bay effect?

Perhaps.

 

[Mattyv]

Going for the Michael Bay effect?

I believe it's the JJ Abrams effect. Micheal Bay is explosions, hot chicks, giant fighting robots, and explosions.