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Hi all, It's been ages since I played "Orditer" so I'm wondering what's currently in your opinion the best Earth-Mars near future manned mission addon? I'm thinking something that is a bit like AMSO was for the Apollo missions - but instead for near-future manned missions to Mars. Looking...

Hi All, I read today with great interest that it might one day be possible to colonize Venus with "Aerostats" - floating cloud cities similar in concept to the cloud city "Bespin" in Star Wars (see image). I was wondering, would it be possible to create a cloud city floating about 50km high...

Hi all, I recently installed the "DESCARTES DSV" and "DESCARTES Upgrades and Extras" addon by Greg Burch. I really love this ship but have a few questions. 1. In the scenario, "DESCARTES Christening", the DESCARTES begins docked to the "Celestium 3" LEO Space Station. If I undock from the...

Hi all, I have been dreaming for a while now about designing a board game to portray the future exploration of space from about the year 2020 to 2100. It would have a map of the solar system - or more likely several separate individual maps (inner planets, outer planets, Earth-Moon system...

Hi, Yesterday I installed NASSP 7 Beta as I was really interested in using the virtual ACG. I started the Apollo 7 virtual AGC launch scenario but discovered I was something like 3 hours from launch and was facing having to go through a massive checklist of operations to perform. Is there...

Re-installed orbiter, Shuttle Fleet and STS Expansion and now "ITEM 777" won't launch Hi all, I have completely reinstalled orbiter, then installed Shuttle Fleet 4.2.0 and the STS-Expansion Pack 4.2.0 (including all the extras listed in the setup document, in the correct order) and now when I...

Hi all, Does anyone know how to figure out future launch window dates for "KSC to Moon" trips? I read somewhere that KSC is lined up perfectly for a Moon shot every 28 days, but I don't know how to figure out which days these are. Any help would be much appreciated.

Hi all, I had some great fun today in Orbiter getting the Space Shuttle Atlantis (stock ship, not Fleet) to the Moon. I'd recently downloaded the IMFD manual from the Orbiter Hanger, which explained how to do a "Direct Ascent" to the Moon. This seemed the way to get there in the Shuttle rather...

Hi all, Re. STS-120 mission in Shuttle Fleet 4.1.9 In this mission you have to deliver the Harmony module to the ISS. I've got to the ISS but now I'm stuck trying to attach the module. Has anyone done this? Where are you supposed to attach the module? Also, any tips on how to do this...

Hi all, I note that the default setting for "Ambient Light" in Orbiter is 12 but that makes things really dark for me. Unless the sun is shining on a space ship such as one of the Shuttle Fleet they look almost black against a black sky and therefore pretty hard to see. Now I do understand the...

I've just done a fresh install of Orbiter (2006 P1) and installed "Shuttle Fleet 4.1.5" over it and am having some excellent fun with it now I know how to activate the launch autopilot (OPS 101, ITEM 777). However, I have a few questions: 1. Is it possible to get Shuttle Fleet 4.1.5 working in...

Hi all, Today I thought I'd try something I'd not tried before. Take off from KSC and fly to Venus, orbit Venus a few times, then fly back to Earth. At first this seems fairly straight forward. I checked the Cosmic Train Schedule site and it gave me a launch window of 2nd Aug 2010, so I booted...

Hi all, When I first got Orbiter I flew mainly missions in Earth or Luna orbit using ships like the DGIV, XR2 and XR5. These are all great Orbiter ships. Recently however, I've started flying missions in Jupiter orbit, taking off and landing at PreludeII bases on Callisto, Ganymede and Europa...

I've been doing a lot of flights taking off and landing on the moons of Jupiter (Callisto and Europa in particular) and the surfaces of these moons seem a lot bumpier than Luna for instance. It looks like they are using a lower polygon count - making them look like a giant polyhedral rather than...

Hi, I'm trying to create a scenario in which you perform a Hohmann transfer from Callisto to Europa (Ref: Jupiter). I'm using IMFD because I can never figure out how to use TransX. How do I work out the launch window such that when I arrive at Europa's orbit the moon is actually there?

Hi, I've been reading a lot lately about how Einstein's "field equations" enable the prediction of things that otherwise cannot be accounted for by Newton or Kepler. A nice example is the precession of Mercury's perihelion (see link): Kepler Problem This got me thinking, would it be possible...

Hi all, I've finally mastered manual reentry in the Delta Glider IV but have a question regarding the target surface bases for Earth. In my last flight I undocked the DGIV from the ISS, turned prograde and performed a deorbit burn with my retros, watching Aerobrake MFD the whole time to see...

Hi, I know there a several addons covering various aspects of NASA's new "Constellation Program" vehicles but I am having trouble working out which ones to install to simulate a near future "Return to the Moon" type scenario. Ideally I need an addon or collection of addons which would allow...

Hi, Having flown many trips to the Moon on the NASA Saturn V using AMSO, I'm now eager to simulate NASA's publicly announced plans for a manned mission to Mars. Has anyone done such an addon? Artists impression of Mars mission vehicle: If not, are there any other realistic Mars mission...

Hi, N.B. - Edited since posting as I've discovered the problem is more general (changes in red). I hope someone can help me. I've been playing Orbiter fine for several weeks but recently I've been having problems with the Autopilot in all Orbiter craft. Whenever it tries to throttle up or...