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Hello everybody, I have a small question regarding Hardware and Orbiter. I do not play Orbiter that often since my work is taking so much time but I like to use the software when I travel and have some free time in hotels or at home. My laptop is mainly used for browsing and doing productivity...

Hi, I have been trying to build a kid of near future world, with private space stations around the Earth and Moon using SSBB2 and HLV - lunar base modules for a realistic moon bases. I played a lot with Orbiter using DG IV, XR vessels and the Arrow. Now, I wanted to use only ''realistic...

Hi everyone, I am trying to understand what to do when addons ask for spacecraft3 and multistage2. I am trying to make work on my huge Orbiter installation the building blocks, the Descartes and other addons from 2006 to 2010. I tried to go on vinkas internet site but it seems that it has not...

Hello everyone. I put an Azure rover (the stock one from UCGO) into the cargo bay of an XR5 using universal cargo deck/payload manager. I am planning to bring it to my Longshot in orbit and leave to Jupiter's moons. The problem is that the docking alarm of the XR 5 (''warning, docking port...

Good day all, Since they are many people with very deep PC knowledge here, I tought I would ask for your help to buy a new laptop. I want to buy a laptop to use itunes (musics and movies), use it with MS Office for work and play Orbiter. I also want to be able to connect it to my HD tv to play...

Hi all, This is a tool I have been using to plan my launch window for interplanetary flight. It's basically an excell spreadsheet very easy to use. http://www.clowder.net/hop/railroad/sched.html Click on the link Hohmann.xls to get it at the middle of that page. They is probably other...

Ok, so I am back from a long school session in which I had to stop playing with Orbiter! Now I want to get back to where I left my small private universe and come back from Venus to Earth with my Arrow. I had during the summer an excell spreadsheet that was used to calculate hoffman obit...

I have a simple question of users of the UCGO Arrow and the DGIV (or any ships that fit in the bay of the Arrow): -I can dock any ship to any station in Orbiter, thanks to hours of reading tutorials and playing with the simulator. I realized that on the final approach whil trying to dock to...

Ok, so I manage to do my first Earth-Moon trip with a fully crewed and loaded XR5 to prepare my Arrow freighter for a deep solar system exploration! I barely made it to a stable moon orbit before realizing that I did not have enough fuel to land! -I wanted to use one of the 20s fuel UCGO in...

Hi people, I was wondering if there is a way to have the pilot of a DGIV being put in sleep mode present outside the ship like a normal UMMU. It seems to juste disappear after the ship enters the sleeping mode and comes back when I reactivate the ship. Can we manage to keep the pilot and make...

Hi everyone, I am getting a very strange crash down in a very specific situation. - First, I load a scenario (I use almost only recommended addons from this forum) like a resupply mission to ISS with the DG IV with Ummu and UCGO. I complete my mission and I then I quick save my game. I then...

Ok, probably an easy question for advanced players. I managed to do my first Earth to Mars trip using TransX! It was probably not a sexy flight, but I did reach Mars Orbit alive. The problem is that the trip took like a whole year... -I then realized that I did not took in consideration the...

I have a technical question for people who understand how files work in Orbiter better than me. -I just downloaded Mars L11 on http://downloadorbitersim.com/. ON opening the zip files, I put everything on the textures2 folders and I assumed that I also had to be sure that the...

I have some questions regarding the recommended addons on the forum section: In the planet texture part, we can install the Outer planet Base + Patch + Hires1 + hires2 from escapetomsfate . -Wich one goes first in order to not mess up with orbiter in general? -Also, are they all real...

After a few weeks of getting the basics in Orbiter with the DeltaGlider, I want to get to serious things with either the DG IV, or any XR. But is there a difference between Dan Steph DG IV and the XR1 except that the first one has UCGO also?

For more advanced players than me, I have a question about earth rentry with spaceship like Gemini, SpaceX Dragon, Orion, etc... I am new to Orbiter but can now easily reach Orbit with those ships, aligned my plane, dock, but I am not sure if my reentry procedures are realistic or accurate...

Hello everyone, I am playing with the dragons and Space X Falcon1 and Falcon9 add ons but the ocean around the launch pad 40-41 is black... I am not a pro at programming so I did not even dare to mess around with the code. Also, I just can't seem to be able to open the solar panel. If I...

Does anyone know a realistic Mars mission that does not required 100 other add ons or that is not easy like with a DG? I know it's a lot to ask, bu I like realistic stuff! Thank you.