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Hello Orbinauts, I had little free time for Orbiter this last year because I was busy on a commercial project. The game is Space Station Designer, the main developer and coder is Ignacio Liverotti, and the studio is Polar Motion (we worked on BASPM too). https://polar-motion.com/devblog/...

Looks very much like a rocket stage (upper stage ?) to me, like a tank bulkhead. Now identifying the launcher is the funny part. They say '2.5 meters diameter'. Is there something that fits in the Chinese inventory ? Their southern launch corridor goes in the general direction of Australia...

I'm posting this because while the topic already has been discussed, I think a dedicated thread could be useful. So how to configure a HOTAS for Orbiter 2016 ? So far, the best answer I could find is there : https://www.orbiter-forum.com/threads/hi-there-been-5-years.40643/ (thanks @MaxQ !)...

Most of people over there are hardcore flight (but also naval, rail, road...) simulation fans so having a "recommended" configuration could help many of us. Of course some products or more or less available all around the planet but nothing's perfect. It could also be interesting to suggest...

Let's share a rather disappointing experience with new hardware, who knows, it could be useful to someone over there. I was looking for new headphones as my current ones are quite worn. So I went to the local tech shop and decided to give a try to the Trust IRONN GXT 430 "Gaming headphones"...

A small project to get better with surface tiles and understanding how it works, use that knowledge in other bigger projects and hopefully to be useful to others. Auch/Gers (formerly Auch/Lamothe) is an airfield straight north of the Auch city, west of Toulouse. It features a 1900x30 meters...

https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20220529-passanger-plane-goes-missing-with-22-on-board-in-nepal

Guys, this is not good, not at all... Alarming heat waves hit Arctic and Antarctica at the same time By Harry Baker Temperatures peaked at least 50 degrees higher than average in both polar regions. Simultaneous heatwaves have hit both polar regions and caused temperatures to rise by at...

Do you think that hardware prices will go down in a foreseeable future ? Any advice on that welcome. ?

So here we go, the 2022 Winter Olympic Games are now open ! China is hosting the games, and the political context behind those games is a bit stormy : in December 2021, USA and some allies have announced a diplomatic boycott of those games. Let's also notice that Russia is still under a ban...

Hello, The good thing with working full-time is that I'm getting paid. Not that much, but hey I have no big expenses either. So, it is more than time I say "goodbye" to my "MS Sidewinder 2" bought in the early 2000s... It served (very) well, but 20 years later the dead zone is a bad joke. So...

So I'm trying to code a landing leg animation so that the 2 "front legs" and the third "back leg" rotate at the same time. To be more specific, I want the end of the third leg to be at the base of the "foot" during the whole animation. So I coded a child translation animation so that the "back...

I'm trying to get orientation vectors from a Blender object so that I can use them for animations in Orbiter. The problem is : how to get "absolute" orientation values in Blender ? What the "Rotation" gizmo shows makes little sense. Is there a script to download or something ? :unsure:

I was curious if the order in which you define the touchdown vertexes for a vessel matters or not for Orbiter to decide the shape of the ground collision box. Say I want to model some kind of capsule that looks more or less like that, very much a cone but with an angle on the slope : So am I...

Hello, Still on the Tianwen Mars project, I'm trying to spawn the parts jettisoned by the lander during the descent (shell and parachute, heatshield...). So I searched for a code sample doing this and I came with the below piece of code. It sort of works, but it seems it isn't accurate enough...

Just a thought I had... Given there is no stable magnetic field on Mars, our old-fashioned compasses would do no good there. Also, given there is no GPS (or MPS) network there, it isn't an option. So, what kind of technology stuff like rovers can use to keep track of what is North, East, etc...

Stumbled on this, seems that the USS THRESHER nuclear submarine didn't implode instantly as it was believed, but that some of the crew (using the mainframe sonar) still was able to receive and transmit 24 hours later ! Also they heard "metal on metal banging" even later... Also implies USN just...

This is from my system, I wonder why the processor is displayed 8 times. I'd understand 4 times, because it has 4 cores, but 8 ? It has 8 threads, is Windows 10 displaying those ?

Chinese Long March 6 rocket delivers nine small satellites to space April 30, 2021 by Stephen Clark for Spaceflight Now Nine small Chinese satellites, including a technology experiment to test out ways to capture space debris, rode a Long March 6 rocket into orbit April 27 on a rideshare...

VEGA COMPLETES 18TH SUCCESSFUL FLIGHT ORBITS PLEIADES NEO 3, NORSAT-3 AND FOUR CUBESATS April 29, 2021 from CNES press site (ENG) Press Officer Pascale Bresson On the night of 28 to 29 April, Vega accomplished a flawless launch from Europe’s spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre (CSG)...