Recent content by Pithecanthropu

I'm having the same issue, currently using Ken Lanzel's "ACME Rocketship" add-on. I started the included scenario with ACME in orbit around Io. I escaped Io orbit and am now in a highly eccentric orbit around Jupiter, apoapsis at Io's distance, periapsis less than a planet diameter. I'm now...

Thanks to all who posted. I've got it working now even if it will take me some practice to get good at "driving". I tried the RCS motors and they didn't work too well. But when there's a considerable amount of distance to be covered, like changing from one end of the runway to the other...

I'm trying something different. Starting from Saturn Single Stage To Orbit scenario, I'm adding a DG and switching focus to that. What I want to do is fly the Delta Glider, but take advantage of the SASSTO's Fuel Station for my first rendezvous and docking attempt. This is considerably...

DeltaGlider is stuck in a holding or loading area at KSC. I can't figure out how to maneuver to the runway.

OK, I think I get it. The lateral burn changes the orbit plane as intended, but this causes the direction of thrust to drift from true lateral. Consequently a small component of the effective vector of thrust is now prograde or retrograde. At least altitude is fairly easy to correct.

The planar adjustment was four degrees or so. ---------- Post added at 08:59 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:41 PM ---------- The vessel is a Saturn SSTO, essentially a Gemini spacecraft bolted to the third stage of a Saturn V. Here's the link: SASSTO v1.0 Zatnikitelman, I'm not sure...

From reading Orbiter.doc, I gathered that the purpose of Linear Mode is to allow you to apply small amounts of thrust from the RCS engines linearly, which you would want to do in close range maneuvers such as docking. Clearly the main engines are far too powerful for this purpose. Also...

I've downloaded it, but I honestly can't make head or tail of it from the doc. What do they mean by LAN? It's an acronym that just seems to be introduced on page 2 without prior explanation, and it seems to be important. I'm trying it with the DG now, but it doesn't seem to be any more...

Some time ago I downloaded KB9LAD's Acme Rocketship, something of a tribute to the pointy-ended, bullet-shaped spacecraft of early science fiction, with a liberal dash of humor in the spirit of Bugs Bunny and the Road Runner. However, here, as with all vertical launches, I have the same...

Turns out the orbit was a little more eccentric than I thought. Apoapsis appeared to be around 250km, and yes, I know that a perfectly circular orbit at 75km would not be maintainable. I'm approaching periapsis now and will see if I can use the atmospheric drag to even out the orbit at the...

I mean, without having to crash back into the atmosphere once or twice, and without ending up with an extremely eccentric orbit that needed a lot of correction. Whoo hoo! For the first time, by flying aerodynamically to about 20km, engaging the scramjet at 3500 m/s, and keeping the AOA low I...

I did ignore MSVCIRT and MSVCRT, if you meant those two...I forgot to mention that. Without doing that, I can't get it to build. The compile and build do work; this happens at runtime.

Unfortunately I can't undo what I did, because I uninstalled that copy of Orbiter. But I can at least recount what I did. Using a reasonably fresh working copy of Orbiter, I opened up the Delta Glider sample project--the DWS file--that comes in OrbiterSDK Samples. This was using VC++ 2008...

Also, just in case you happen to be working from a notebook, yes you can run Orbiter on a notebook. There should be a subset of keys that stand in for the numeric keypad-- fn+f11 should shift the keys to numeric fn+<some_key> gives you the numeric keypad value for <some_key> on an ad hoc...