Recent content by DaveS

When is improvements to GNC and APU/hydraulic systems planned for? Would like to have a fully working ADI and given that the APU/hydraulic system is by far the oldest system in SSV (it dates back to the original Space Shuttle Deluxe in 2007) I think it needs some attention.

Plenty of those ideas through out the 80's and 90's. Only real success was McDonnell Douglas's DC-X:

Maybe profit was never the reason, but the same schedule pressure was certainly there. Apollo 1, STS-51L and STS-107, they all had serious schedule pressure pushing them. Apollo 1 had the political pressure of beating the Soviets and landing on the Moon before the end of the decade. STS-51L was...

Noted major issue with these textures: They remove the high resolution tiles around the Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center area. Screenshot provided.

Better quality and a second vantage point:

Customer, Amazon. Amazon LEO is Amazon's answer to SpaceX's Starlink satellite service.

Video courtesy of Spaceflightnow.com:

Well, New Glenn exploded on the pad tonight during the planned hot fire test. After an aborted attempt 2 hours earlier, the 7 BE-4 engines of the first stage (GS-1) ignited at 9 pm EDT (0100 UTC May 29) which was followed by the vehicle exploding, seeming taking its Transporter/Erector with it.

While on the subject of payloads: How are you planning to to handle Spacelab? I just wonder because the Spacelab tunnel used its own custom bridge rail panels for the trunnion pins. Currently there's no way to specify this.

Looks real nice, here's ISS over central Europe, having just experienced an orbital sunrise:

You can adjust the brightness of the nightlights on the Options tab. Default is 0.5 with a range between 0 and 1.

No, just use the switch below the Digital Readout (DRO) to switch between MET and GMT.

I don't think there is as the checklists are very good at calling out when to expect MA's as part of the procedure (see MPS ISOL and APU/HYD SHUTDN in the Ascent checklist). And none of the R4 switches are implemented at all.

So no Post-Insertion CONFIG GPCs FOR OPS 2?

For on-orbit burns, you want the procedures outlined in the generic Orbit Ops checklist, page 9-2, ON-ORBIT OMS BURN. The Ascent checklist will tell you when it is time to head over to the mission's Post-Insertion checklist. Once the PI checklist is complete, all operations is governed by their...