Recent content by Adelanthal

Simple answer: Jupiter. More complex answer: Jupiter has a mind-boggling huge mass, which means that it's gravity, and hence its tidal forces, have a major effect on a huge area of space. To form a larger body, an aggregate of material must have a greater gravitational attraction to itself...

4k bad sectors is a REALLY bad sign; back your data to another storage device ASAP. If read / write operations start failing, an odd but actually effective solution is to remove the Hard Drive (HDD) from the computer and pop it in the freezer for an hour or so. For some reason, this allows for...

Another consideration, Sky Captain, is not so much the mass as the physical area needed to pass. An evacuation system sufficient for 125 people may be jammed to immobility by 200 people, simply due to people getting into one another's way.

Obviously a little hard to tell from the video, but it appears that you're putting the glide slope indicator right at the desired point of touchdown. Try putting it about one indicator diameter before the point of touchdown and start your flare at ~50-60 m at 140 m/s indicated airspeed. All in...

Fabri91, that's a modified combat takeoff, designed for minimizing exposure to shoulder-launched Surface-to-Air Missiles. Kind of exciting to see a C-5 pull one of those.

It appears in the video that you're not being kicked back far enough on the undock; that is to say that when you thrust forward, you're "behind" the docking port already. Have you tried backing off to, say, 100m and trying to close in?

Part of the problem is that the ShuttlePB has an absolutely massive drag to weight ratio, so much so that you almost have to force it to descend from high atmosphere. Try with the default Delta-Glider or perhaps DanSteph's DeltaGlider IV.

If you don't mind some math, here's a procedure to get the proper heading (azimuth): Abbreviations used: LL : Launch Latitude - Get this from Surface MFD, if your latitude is south of the equator, use the negative of your latitude (20S = -20) DOI : Desired Orbital Inclination - Get this from...

A bit off topic, but the USN naming scheme is as follows: Battleships - historically states. This has been taken over by ballistic-missile submarines (boomers) Carriers - Admirals or Presidents Cruisers - famous battles Destroyers and Frigates - famous naval personnel Attack Submarines - fish...

Brilliant Pebbles was originally meant to be lofted by a Delta platform. Upon launch, they then closed with their target, generally using IR, using their absurdly over-sized RCS thrusters and attempted a kinetic kill. The energies involved were .... impressive.

Sorry, the latter; I really should proofread before dashing off to something else...

You were travelling at ~5.5x10^13 m/s. Even thrusting at 100 m/s, it'd take roughly 4 years of constant thrust to tick the decimal even once...

A way that I found works is to set your perihelion fairly low, usually just below ground level, ~5 or 6 degrees before where you're trying to land. Get your altitude between 15 and 20 km from the ground and use pitch and bank to hold it there. If you've aimed and flown right, you'll be...

Oddly enough, I use just the OrbitMFD and do plane change burns as part of MCCs. Not as fuel efficient as it could be, but a LOT cheaper than trying to plane change later.

As posited in "Slow Train to Arcturus", why bother with planets? Every star will have a habitable zone, and every Population I star has sufficient material to create more spacehabs of, given technological limitations, essentially unlimited size. No having to worry about atmospheres, alien...