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It looks like aliens made a very successful Lunar impact mission, with an impactor at 99% lightspeed! :)

I have to confess, I am a bit lost now. 😢 How to reach the Moon, when all of the Lunar flight architecture is cancelled? While I fully understand the dire economic situation requires the termination of the most expensive programs, it would have been better to make this decision eight years ago...

Version 04 of the LEV. New commands: [M] Switch on Landing Lights [V] A very(!) experimental EVA

Shedding some light on the dark side of the Moon.

I read an article about an airship on Mars. It suggests to use Hydrogen as lifting gas on Mars. Hydrogen is not flammable in Mars atmospheric conditions. The density of the Hydrogen filling is much lower than on Earth, due to the lower ambient pressure. Still the airship would need to be pretty...

Thanks for the tutorial! I think I would need an even more basic one, on take-off, flying and landing. It is hard just to fly a traffic pattern around the airport. To make a turn, is it flown like an airplane, with banking and pulling on the yoke? Or is it like a ship, with constant rudder...

A very interesting concept! It gives a real feeling of the big mass - though weightless - that responds very slowly to steering inputs. The key controls are a bit complicated. I'd ask for a flight computer to simply the steering tasks. :giggle: Also, would it be possible not to intercept...

Hi, just asking how it is going with your project? Would be great to look for some Easter Eggs in Valles Marineris with an airship. 🥚 Also - as boogabooga said - I does not need to be perfect at the first shot. ;)

Thanks for the pictures! Indeed I have an astronaut figure in a SpaceX EVA suit, but it is in a weightless-posture, and I needed a guy standing up, so I grabbed what was available. Still, the cockpit and astronauts are in a very early stage. The landing lights are a good idea. Will have look how...

Thanks for opening a thread on addons in development! Here is a screenshot story on flying to the Moon with the Lunar Excursion Vehicle (LEV). The LEV is ready to launch on top of a FalconHeavy. Fairing separation over the Bahamas. Above the puffy clouds of Indonesia a CrewDragon is...

Attached is a new version of the Lunar Excursion Vehicle (LEV). It contains launching, docking and Moon-landing scenarios. This vessel can switch between tailsitter mode for deep space maneuvers, and hover mode for Lunar surface operations, using the [G] key. A HUD indicator shows the vessel...

Cheers to all polar bears in space and on the ground: Fram2 mission is live! If you want to fly the polar mission yourself in Orbiter 2024, and enjoy the polar lights, please set your graphics client to D3D7. Don't know why, but with D3D9 the Aurora textures would be black and white only. :unsure:

The problem with pressure-fed rocket engines is, that the combustion chamber pressure is limited by the tank pressure minus some dP required to inject the fuel into the combustion chamber. This may be feasible for smaller tanks like those used for reaction control thrusters, but not for big...

That looks absolutely cool! :cool: And it will open the way for airships on Mars, or steerable balloons in the stratosphere of Venus. (y)

I am also using the old Orbiter 2016 API, with Visual C++ 2008, and can compile 2024 addons. Try this: Initialize your variables in void myVessels::clbkSetClassCaps (FILEHANDLE cfg) Previously I initialized the variables in the constructor myVessel::myVessel (OBJHANDLE hObj, int fmodel) ...

I think to use oapi.register_exhausttexture you would need to re-compile the DeltaGlider code, is it? To simply try a different texture, you could replace the default "Exhaust.dds" with a texture of your liking. But please back-up the "Exhaust.dds" first, so you can change it back. Here are a...

That's a bit longer story, described in full here: Moon Direct - A purpose-driven plan to open the lunar frontier. Before the crewed mission, uncrewed mission(s) set up an automated base on the Lunar surface, with a refuelling depot. Then: LEV to parking orbit on a FalconHeavy. Crew of 2 to LEV...

High over the Sundarbans a Dragon capsule is delivering the crew to the Lunar excursion vehicle (LEV). The three-day flight to the Moon will be a bit cramped in the small cabin of the LEV. Note the FalconHeavy upper stage has a grey stripe to prevent the fuel from freezing while it was waiting...

Could you maybe post your sun texture? It may be interesting to compare the visuals. ☀️:cool: