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Dude, you are 1 message away from 3000 messages atm. ;)

Take a look at this beautiful picture of Io & Jupiter from the Delta glider IV Europa to Io rescue mission.

Wow, I never knew something like this existed but after reading the wikipedia article about it in detail, I feel I can relate most symptoms mentioned there with myself. While this is certainly not close to any of the 'really serious' personality disorders, but.....since I'm only in my early 20s...

lol, while it's true I don't have orbiter installed on my laptop but...... My entire custom orbiter installation is stored in a rar file in google drive which means it's just a 15 minute download away from me. It's less of a time problem & more of an addiction problem. You can't get this good...

The solution!!!!!! Alright, now that flytandem has flown his planned trajectory and completed this challenge successfully,(I received a pm from him) I'm posting the solution scenarios. Inside the zip file is also a word file which consists of some explanation regarding the solution. Scenarios...

My orbiter days are pretty much over by now but I had subscribed to this thread hoping that you might post in this thread some day, glad that you finally did. :) First of all, congratulations on coming up with the solution. While I'm not(or don't use) a computer program, I do believe there is...

Yes, you can, there is already an inbuilt Delta glider scenario in the Delta glider folder named Smack! which has 2 delta gliders setup such that they are about to dock. Alternatively, you can also use the scenario editor to dock to a vessel.

Two days ago, I downloaded the UCGO addon to fly the Arrow Freighter again after a really long while. I didn't remember too much about it from the last time I used it, so exploring the Arrow Freighter was almost like exploring a completely new ship. The first thing I did after loading the...

Actual correct parameters for Varuna. Taken from NASA's website & confirmed with some other astronomy apps. Epoch = 2016.57905544148 ; SemiMajorAxis = 6442950279469.6591797 ; meters Eccentricity = 0.05052422717173251 Inclination = 0.2997823783734367975 ; rad LongAscNode...

Quaoar's inclination is way off. It's inclination is like 90 degrees to the ecliptic. The dev input the values in degrees but orbiter needs it in radians. Changing the orbital parameters in Quaoar.cfg to Epoch = 2016.57905544148 ; SemiMajorAxis = 6498510480943.6728516 ; meters...

Yeah, I saw that, but I thought you may know some other source which has that information. I just want to be sure that the orbital parameters of quaoar & varuna are correct and I certainly don't have the ability to do that myself. :(

This seems right when compared to some other astronomy apps I have, please also find accurate orbital parameters for Quaoar & Varuna if your time permits that.

Yeah, I sorta told you about this so that you could edit your original post above with that value. :hello:

Yup, this is another website where I found the longitude of periapsis value to be 296.6. That website seems pretty reliable to me.

Just so you know, there is a huge difference in the author's Longitude of Perihelion value (245.85)which you converted into radians & wikipedia's value. (297.24) The Longitude of Perihelion values for Quaoar & Varuna when compared with wikipedia are nearly identical.

Ok, when I posted this challenge, I set the fuel amount & time limit based on some rough estimates. Today, I just flew this challenge and would like to share some information here. First of all, assuming you have the right plan, the fuel spent in MCCs will differ from person to person depending...

Try, I'm afraid I won't help you unless you've posted some detailed information here indicating that you've tried really hard.

True, changing the inclination & LAN to Epoch = 2016.57905544148 ; SemiMajorAxis = 6442950279469.6591797 ; meters Eccentricity = 0.05052422717173251 Inclination = 0.2997823783734367975 ; rad LongAscNode = 1.6982957103063498483 ; rad LongPerihelion =...

The amazing Relativistic Warp MFD is working with orbiter 2016. No matter who you are, I think you should try this addon once if you've never done it before. It's pure awesomeness. :10sign: Relativistic Warp MFD 1.5

Yes, when I started planning for this challenge in TransX, Quaoar & Varuna both looked almost 90 degrees inclined to the ecliptic, way more inclined than any other rock I had in orbiter. I looked at wikipedia for their ecliptic inclinations and found that they were around 8 & 17 degrees...