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  1. statickid

    Orbiter becoming a procedural universe..

    personally I would be happy with procedural surface micro-details like next-gen Orulex. By that I mean having the excellent and accurate stock 3-D terrain from 2016 then augment it <1km details like small craters on the moon or boulder fields and things like that. :hmm:
  2. statickid

    News NASA’s Long Dead ‘IMAGE’ Satellite is Alive!

    :blink: Edit: It's a system-failure failure :lol:
  3. statickid

    Launch News SpaceX Falcon Heavy Demo Mission (1330-1630 EST 6th Feb. 2018)

    I don't have a link for info but apparently word on the street is the suit is included as part of its human flight rating. I don't know if it's pressurized or has sensors but it's supposedly fulfilling some NASA testing requirement.
  4. statickid

    Launch News SpaceX Falcon Heavy Demo Mission (1330-1630 EST 6th Feb. 2018)

    I actually pondered the possibility it was an elaborately concealed space burial and there's some wealthy patron in there who "donated" their estate to spacex :hmm:
  5. statickid

    Launch News SpaceX Falcon Heavy Demo Mission (1330-1630 EST 6th Feb. 2018)

    I was wondering how the tires will look in 5 years :lol:
  6. statickid

    Hello from the North West coast of England

    WELCOME!!! May your path be with the way of the probe :probe::salute:
  7. statickid

    News Small local Tsunami after Mag 7.9 earthquake offshore Alaska

    https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000cmy3#moment-tensor Looks like it was more or less strike-slip. **************************** I was able to access the data and all related NOAA/USGS monitoring networks just fine this morning :hmm: The only difference was that a note at...
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    General Question How is Kerbal more famous than Orbiter.

    All the while I am mainly offering speculations as to why KSP is more popular as in my original thought I found it interesting that it is popular maybe for some of the same reasons I'm not very interested in it.
  9. statickid

    General Question How is Kerbal more famous than Orbiter.

    Even if it is possible to mod KSP to be more realistic, that isn't really how KSP is marketed or even it's original concept. Some of these things look like big improvements over vanilla KSP for sure. Even things like the trajectories drawn in space bug me though. I'm sure there's some mod to...
  10. statickid

    General Question How is Kerbal more famous than Orbiter.

    :2cents: Never played Kerbal and probably never will- not even interested! I play orbiter to learn about spaceflight and explore the solar system. Now that Orbiter has a 3-D Earth, I also use it to explore earth. Building silly, half-baked spaceships to fly in a fictional cartoon planetary...
  11. statickid

    General Question Prograde / Retrograde

    I originally posted this on some other thread but it seems relevant here
  12. statickid

    Launch News Zuma: SpaceX Top Secret Mission (8 p.m. ET, Sunday, Jan 7, 2018)

    Not just responsibility but property. It doesn't matter if I have a junk car in my back 40 I can still tackle someone trying to steal the side mirrors then have them arrested for trespassing and theft.
  13. statickid

    Launch News Zuma: SpaceX Top Secret Mission (8 p.m. ET, Sunday, Jan 7, 2018)

    As I understand it they could absolutely complain. I thought any spacecraft functioning or not, and even space debris remain the exclusive property of the nation that launched it.
  14. statickid

    Launch News Zuma: SpaceX Top Secret Mission (8 p.m. ET, Sunday, Jan 7, 2018)

    Yeah I'm not personally weirded out by this. Mostly I'm just jealous because I never see any cool spacecraft activity where I live!!! I need to move lol
  15. statickid

    Launch News Zuma: SpaceX Top Secret Mission (8 p.m. ET, Sunday, Jan 7, 2018)

    Neat!! https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.space.com/39338-spacex-zuma-rocket-sky-spiral-photos.html Also: https://twitter.com/Marco_Langbroek/status/950509102970621957 https://twitter.com/Samcornwell/status/950499540666331136
  16. statickid

    LEO targeting - a numerical tool for orbital maneuvering planning

    Here's a surface that closely resembles your ion transfer- its a plot of eccentricities from a given point starting with a circle (the intersecting plane). Just thought you might like it.
  17. Eccentricity Based surface

    Eccentricity Based surface

  18. statickid

    Humor Random Comments Thread

    From Facebook :facepalm:
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