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  1. Hlynkacg

    Launch News SpaceX Falcon 9 with NROL-76 - April 16, 2017

    Edit: wrong thread. are we not able to delete our posts anymore?
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    Launch News SpaceX's Historic First Reuse of a Falcon 9 First Stage with SES-10 - March 27, 2017

    Saying that the SRBs were "reused" stretches the term to it's breaking point. It would be more accurate to say that many parts of the SRBs were recycled.
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    Launch News SpaceX's Historic First Reuse of a Falcon 9 First Stage with SES-10 - March 27, 2017

    Fly that puppy again! ---------- Post added at 14:42 ---------- Previous post was at 14:41 ---------- Second stage has reached orbit, waiting on transfer window to GTO. Congrats to SpaceX on a successful launch and a historic milestone.
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    Launch News SpaceX's Historic First Reuse of a Falcon 9 First Stage with SES-10 - March 27, 2017

    Liftoff! ---------- Post added at 14:33 ---------- Previous post was at 14:29 ---------- Stage and Fairing separation, every things looking good.
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    Updates Blue Origin New Shepard News and Updates

    Take a look at the Apollo LM's interior arrangement some time. The only thing between the astronauts and the APS along with it's associated hypergolic propellant lines (aside from their space suits) is some canvas netting.
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    Launch News SpaceX to send privately crewed Dragon spacecraft around the Moon in 2018

    Not only this, but North American Rockwell engineers had also expressed concerns about recurring leaks in AS-204's cooling system and the potential for shorts but it was felt by NASA that the time required to solve the issue would present an unacceptable delay to a project that was already far...
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    Launch News SpaceX to send privately crewed Dragon spacecraft around the Moon in 2018

    In regards to Challenger I would append that to say "driven almost entirely schedule pressures" with a bit left over for "by rights the Shuttle shouldn't have been 'man rated' in the first place". Ditto Apollo 1, and arguably Columbia. Point being that NASA has a long history of allowing...
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    Launch News SpaceX to send privately crewed Dragon spacecraft around the Moon in 2018

    Well the first falcon heavy flight article has already been built and was scheduled to fly in the spring of 2017 before the AMOS-6 mishap. First flight of FH before the end of the year doesn't seem like all that much of a stretch. And frankly, given their history, I'd place more trust in...
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    Question Venus surface Lifeforms strategies/physiology

    ...and even then, Insectoids don't seem like a particularly efficient body type for a high-temp high-press environment, flying ones with the necessary greater surface area (wings) seem even less so. If there is life on Venus it is almost certainly some sort of airborne chemosynthetic "floater"...
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    Angle between vectors in a given plane

    Assuimg a shared origin point, you will need 3 vectors. the two vectors you're measuring "A" and "B" and the "H" which is the normal vector of the plane you want to project them on. Assuming H has a magnitude of 1. Get the dot product of A and H and then subtract H * dot product from A to get...
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    Question Virtual Reality

    Pretty sure the only practical way to do this would be as a custom graphics client.
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    Question Virtual Reality

    I experimented with rotating the spacecraft along with the camera to correct for off axis movements but it wrought havoc with things like docking-ports and touchdown points.
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    Question Virtual Reality

    I don't think a simple plugin module would cut it. As I said above, the API as written does not allow you to define camera rotations in anything other than the local X and Y axes. I've submitted "Ability to define camera rotation matrices" as a feature request but I suspect that it's a ways down...
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    Question Virtual Reality

    Unfortunately VR using the basic Orbiter API is impossible due to the fact that orbiter does not allow you to define camera rotation axes. As such, tilting your head would break the sim. If you did implement VR it would have to be through a dedicated graphics client that uses it's own camera...
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    SDK Question land.wav sound loops continually

    Ask dansteph for a patch.
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    Question Need help with US geography

    Assuming those are the Sierras running up the right hand side of the frame I think you're actually looking more north towards LA and Santa Barbara. Which would put San Diego at the very bottom of the frame. Another possibility is that or you're actually, somewhere over the Sea of Cortez and...
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    SDK Question Thruster index

    Yes they are. Likewise for propellant handles. I'm not sure what you mean by display in this context though. The answer will depend on precisely what you're trying to display and whether you're doing it from within the vessel's code or via an external module or MFD.
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    Launch News Atlas V to Launch GOES-R 5:42 p.m. EST (2242 GMT) Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016

    Disappointed that the mission patch isn't the Stay-puft Marshmallow Man.
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    General Question where is uranus and neptune on orbiter 2016?

    They're out there, though them may be out of view depending on sim time/date
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