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Here's some more pics on the new nozzle/throat design. I found this great PVC fitting, a bushing, that would be for connecting 1.5" PVC with 1/2" PVC pipe. The hole in the bushing is about 7/8" wide. By gluing and placing 2 washers in to form the throat, and using hydraulic cement to form...

A new motor! That's next to a 1 liter soda bottle. 38mm PVC (1.5") 3 KNO3-Sucrose-Sorbitol grains Will test fire this weekend...

If this was the case, i'd go to space alot more often. The Challenger accident happened in 1986 when I was 5. Apollo was obviously before my time. I vaguely remember seeing videos of the capsules landing in the ocean and thinking that the capsule parachuted the whole way back from the...

YouTube - Rocket Skateboard II Rear View FMI: http://orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=1286

T+0.000 First flame seen from nozzle end of motor T+0.384 Flame seen from top of motor T+1.752 End Plug ejected from top of motor, end of forward momentum, start reverse motion T+4.472 Loss of Supersonic flow, motor burning out T+9.410 Burnout I believe I made an unintentional Aerospike motor...

New Grain size

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A work in progress. This remote application will connect to an orbiter simulator across the network to provide External MFDs and Remote Vessel Controls. Some functionality will be slightly limited. This is an experiment in do-ability. So far, I have the Parent Window with Menu Bar and...

I remember my first flight lessons too... I also had a problem when I told the instructor I already had logged 1,200 IFR hours in the simulator. The rest of training was a breeze. I was able to pretty much skip any type of ground school and progress to solo time pretty quickly.

Maintain at 104KM Alt +100m/s vertical speed approaching MECO, MECO when PeA = 42km. This will land your ET in a safe spot everytime. It's good to be space junk friendly even in the simulator :-)

How to say "My pants are filled with cheese." In 12 languages... 我的裤子用乳酪被填装。 Mijn broek wordt gevuld met kaas. Mon pantalon est rempli du fromage. Meine Hosen werden mit Käse gefüllt. Τα εσώρουχά μου γεμίζουν με το τυρί. I miei pantaloni sono riempiti di formaggio. 私のズボンはチーズで満ちている。 나의 바지는 치즈에...

lets just bring the moon down for a couple orbits in LEO... that should take care of it.

My Bad...

You know you've been playing too much orbiter when you fall off a barstool and bounce into orbit around the sun.

The problem here is that the free version of the C++ compiler does not come with MFC which is required to compile vessels that have a custom panel. Anything with a .rc or Resource file won't work here, you need the full version for this.

That's debatable. In 2000, Al Gore actually won the popular vote, but because of the semantics of our electoral system, and a vote recount in Florida that was questionable at best, Bush got to be president. In the 2004 election, he didn't have any real competition. He should have been beaten...

I just asked the accountant at our office. He's never seen the use of the word off in this context...

This won't return the same value displayed on ACC on the surface MFD. ACC only shows horizontal acceleration. Enjo's forumla will show acceleration provided by the thrusters, but doesn't account for deceleration from drag, and does not show strictly the horizontal acceleration. I don't...

I wouldn't approach it this way, I would lift a rocket with the cannon on top. The rocket+cannon would accelerate to close to orbital velocity, say 1/2, or 3/4ths. Then wait for apogee. The firing of the projectile would be the final orbital insertion itself.

I'm not sure about the feasibility of a balloon start from extremely high altitude. Even by avoiding the thick lower atmosphere, the task still remains to get the required ~7.7km/s velocity for orbital insertion. This is still going to require a massive rocket, which would mean a balloon...