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    General Question Auto Takeoff to orbit

    That was only a feature of DanSteph's DeltaGlider-IV, not a generic feature. With most vessels, you have to manually pilot the vessel into the desired orbit.
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    News NASA's Future: The News and Updates Thread

    Well, this idea is not a product of Trump, but rather the two Senators of Texas, Greg Abbot and Ted Cruz. They're the ones that introduced this additional legislative text into the original FY26 budget text. And AFAIK, no one else in either chamber is willing to slugging it out if it comes to a...
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    Project N1 Lunar

    On the list: https://github.com/orbitersim/orbiter/issues/381
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    Discussion ChatGPT Can help writing Code for Orbiter

    Anyone remember when MS tested their "AI" on Twitter? Didn't take long for it to lose any sanity it might have had at the beginning. Lead to MS having to pull it entirely.
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    Discussion Space Shuttle Vessel - Payload Development Thread

    I've been thinking about this and I think the best way would be to externalize all systems stuff, VC elements included. Currently, everything is internal to the main SSV DLL module, which I think unnecessarily complicates things as things much exist both internally and externally at the same...
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    Request Update Earth night light texture to latest NASA Black Marble version

    This is what I could find on the subject of Earth texture sources
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    Request Update Earth night light texture to latest NASA Black Marble version

    In that case, I think it can skipped then and focus could be on the night light texture.
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    Request Update Earth night light texture to latest NASA Black Marble version

    No, unfortunately any planetary textures created before Orbiter 2016 are completely incompatible with later versions as the entire system was changed then. Orbiter 2016 was the version that introduced the current tree system for planetary textures, before it was all baked into a single *.tex...
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    Request Update Earth night light texture to latest NASA Black Marble version

    I originally posted this on the Orbiter Github issues page(issue#592), but to give it a bit of a wider exposure, I have also decided to post it here, as an add-on request: "This is a request to update the current Earth nightlight texture with a more accurate and recent one based on the NASA...
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    Installation Strange colours in DG

    Try deleting Config\GC\DeltaGlider.cfg and DG-S.cfg and see if that makes a difference.
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    Discussion Space Shuttle Vessel - Payload Development Thread

    When at the Starboard Work Station, press Ctrl-Alt-Up arrow to access panel R14.
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    Discussion Space Shuttle Vessel - Payload Development Thread

    Have you pushed in the circuit breakers for the RMS CCTV on panel R14? There's three of them, row E, RMS CAMR. Then on panel A7U, under CAMERA POWER, RMS to ON. Use the PORT RMS CAMERA switch on the same panel to switch between the elbow camera and the end effector camera.
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    Updates Juno Mission News and Updates

    No, it can't. Juno doesn't have the delta-v to do it, no operational spacecraft does. It's just one of Avi Loeb's crazy ideas and he doesn't know the Juno spacecraft (main engine offline since February 2017 when helium valves in the propulsion system malfunctioned preventing anymore main engine...
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    Scenario ISS actual position

    Yes and 2024. Just pause and make sure Ref. equator (fixed) is selected in the Frame field.
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    Discussion Orbiter User Requirements and Post-2024 Development

    Could a 4B be added to the list: Build user friendly development tools for bases?
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    Project NASA Viking

    All Mars landers until MSL in 2012 relied on simple open-loop guidance. MSL was the first to use Terrain Relative Navigation (TRN, pronounced "terrain") that allowed it to target a precise landing spot. Until TRN was demonstrated, the actual landing site was unknown until one of the orbiters...
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    Discussion Orbiter User Requirements and Post-2024 Development

    That's because everything that has to do Orbiter with is ancient! D3D9Client is still compatible with the default graphics client (using DirectX 7, first released in December 1999) written by Martin back in 1999/2000, which predates the first flight of the so called "glass cockpit" of the Space...
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    Request New Shepard vehicle and tower

    No, that was BrianJ.
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    Discussion Spaceflight Video Thread

    STS-1 Post-mission technical debriefing with John Young and Robert Crippen:
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    Discussion Spaceflight Video Thread

    Just so that this crazy event(STS-117 hail storm on the eve of the Flight Readiness Review) doesn't get forgotten:
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