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    Orbiter Screenshot Thread

    New VAB and LCC, complete with all four Firing Rooms and their electrically operated louvers:
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    Discussion Space Shuttle Vessel - Payload Development Thread

    This one: https://commons.erau.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2439&context=space-congress-proceedings
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    Discussion Space Shuttle Vessel - Payload Development Thread

    This is what I have on the SSP for the PAMs:
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    Project Space Shuttle Vessel

    @GLS: I think I can report some good news for a change! I think I have found the source of all my "unexplained CTDs". Turns out a C++ Runtime file had become corrupted, in this case ucrtbased.dll. I found this out while being fortunate enough to trap a CTD-up-loading in the VS debugger, which...
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    Project Space Shuttle Vessel

    The Cape terrain in Orbiter might look flat but absolutely isn't. It's riddled with uneven spots.
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    Discussion Space Shuttle Vessel - Payload Development Thread

    Got this old schematic which shows the keel pin of the PAM ASE being located slightly aft of the FWD trunnion pins:
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    Project Space Shuttle Vessel

    Should plain "J" key.
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    Project Space Shuttle Vessel

    How close are you longitudinally? You have to pretty much be spot on and the LDS only helps with the lateral alignment. This is why they have ground observers stationed in the baskets of the mounts, equipped with radios in direct contact with the driver.
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    Project Space Shuttle Vessel

    It happens sometimes when the ENGINE POWER switches are taken to the OFF position. Harmless, just means that the GPCs can't communicate with the Main Engine Controller on that particular engine anymore. Usually happens if the GPCs and MEC was talking when the MEC was powered down so the GPCs...
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    News European small launch vehicle start-up news

    Scrub for today to address a COPV leak:
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    News Gallery of add-ons in development

    Nothing to dock to. All they did was fly around it for a few hours, they did not dock to it. No docking hardware on Orion or the ICPS.
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    Humor Random Comments Thread

    This should answer it: https://www.orbiter-forum.com/members/urwumpe.115/
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    Discussion Space Shuttle Vessel - Payload Development Thread

    Well, there was only one MPLM that was going to support "active payloads" and that was FM-03, Donatello that never flew. It was going to use a version of the ROEU called the Remotely Operated Fluid Umbilical (ROFU). ROEU was only used to supply keep-alive power to certain payloads to keep things...
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    Project Space Shuttle Vessel

    Each daily launch window for STS-49 was a maximum of 53 minutes long with the shortest being 47 minutes long.
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    Discussion Spaceflight Video Thread

    Here's another one showing Atlantis undergoing Orbiter Maintenance Down Period(OMDP)-J1 in Palmdale, CA, between October 1992 and May 1994: Additions to the orbiter included the improved nosewheel steering system, improved APUs, the drag chute modification to the vertical stabilizer, lightweight...
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    Discussion Spaceflight Video Thread

    Rockwell Intl film showing STA-099(would later be converted into OV-099, Challenger) payload bay doors being attached to the midbody with a showing of OV-102 (Columbia) at the end, the least complete orbiter on the right: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/70180522
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    Project Space Shuttle Vessel

    Just a complete shot in the dark here, but do you have a plug-in called "Attachment Manager" active? If so, try disabling it.
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    Problem Unable to turn off monitor when not playing

    On the video tab where it's says Full Screen Mode, select Full Screen Window. True Full Screen doesn't support anything that makes Orbiter lose focus.
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    Project Space Shuttle Vessel

    AXM Model's Shuttle Reference: https://axmpaperspacescalemodels.com/index.php/shuttle-reference/
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    Project Space Shuttle Vessel

    It was all SWT until STS-6 which introduced the LWT, then back SWT for STS-7. SLWT was introduced on STS-91, the last Shuttle/Mir mission. STS-99 used a LWT as did STS-107. STS-87 was the first launch to do the Roll To Heads Up (RTHU) during the second stage launch.
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