Orbiter Screenshot Thread

[1987VCRProductions]

Been awhile since I posted screenshots here. I recently found the NORAD tracking data for Mir and since then I've been having a ball simulating historic flights to the station.

The images from top to bottom are from STS-71, 74, 86, and 89.









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Soyuz TM-2 and TM-3 at Mir.



I rotated the forward docking port for added realism, this required me having to do the same for Kristall (the model with one folded up array and the other one on Kvant-1) and the docking port on the side of the station that Kristall ends up docked to.

[gattispilot]

SLC 6 for 2016

[1987VCRProductions]

I have some more screenshots that I took in the course of flying shuttle missions. I like to use them as desktop wallpapers.

Discovery poised to deploy Magnum-1 on STS-51-C:



Challenger coming in to land on Rogers Dry Lake at the end of STS-61-A:



Atlantis with a fully constructed ACCESS structure on mission STS-61-B:



An SDS-2 satellite in its final Molniya orbit, deployed by Columbia on STS-28:

[Wolf]

Progressing with SSU OV-102 Hi Res Textures.













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[IronRain]

MSA launched Albatros II today. Albatros II is the brother of Albatros I, the first interplanetary mission tried by MSA, but lost a couple of months before arrival at Mars.

This is the second interplanetary mission done by MSA. It will validate landing sites for future manned missions, hopefully during the next window.

[hutchison66]

Some views of interiors for Donamy's ISS A2Z I'm working on

[gattispilot]

So more of the shuttles for 2016 I've been working on.


Zeneithstar

[DaveS]

STS-111 entry:

[IronRain]

Nice!

[1987VCRProductions]

I've been getting into flying the classic interplanetary flights of the Mariners, Pioneers, and Voyagers. I had modded the old config and ini files to spacecraft3 and Multistage2015 to function correctly with Orbiter 2010.

Voyager-1 at Titan and Saturn:


Voyager-2 at Uranus:


Voyager-2 at Neptune:


Pioneer-11 dwarfed by Saturn's rings:


Mariner-9 in orbit around Mars:


I've also managed to fly a successful Mariner-10 with a Venus sling and 3 flybys of Mercury (all historically accurate and within hours of when they actually happened). The end-game for me is to accomplish a successful Galileo or Cassini type mission.

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A sunset over Neptune:

[gattispilot]

sts 1 on pad:




sts 1 launch 2016

In flight using ms2015:


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Challenger:


Lit Shuttlebay:

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Europa Clipper:

[1987VCRProductions]

After an Odyssey involving gentle pushes from Venus and Earth, we've finally made it:

[gattispilot]

Europa clipper:

[ljetibo]

The graphics in this game have gone so far that sometimes it's just nice to look at the Moon.



Next up Mars! I hope I don't miss it.

[1987VCRProductions]

Of all the gravity assists needed to get Galileo to Jupiter, the first Earth flyby was my favorite, with a pass over the North American continent at night: