Vessel CST-100 addon?

[Kyle]

Now that the shuttle program is on its last leg, commercial seems to be the only way to ISS by USA for the next few years. I was wondering, if anyone had the time or was already considering creating a addon for CST-100, the Boeing Orion-like proposal that launches using a Atlas V, Delta IV, or Falcon 9.

I would obviously, do it myself if I my computer wasn't such crap (just had a nasty virus) that and I have no experience at making orbiter addons. However, I would love to fly a CST-100 addon to the ISS on orbiter.

 

[ky]

I'll try but I can't guarntee anything.I don't think my computer can do it but i'll try it.

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My computer can't handle it.

 

[Izack]

My computer can't handle it.

Can't handle what? :huh:

 

[ky]

Making the add-on.I tried making the mesh in sketchup(what I would usually use to make add-ons for orbiter,easier tha the other programs)but it crashed.

 

[Zatnikitelman]

I'm sort of working on something of very similar shape using the CST-100 as only a very rough guide, but it'll be a while before I get close to a release.

 

[Tacolev]

I'm sure anyone serious about a CST-100 add-on would have found these but here's some better visual media of the thing courtesy of boeing:

http://boeing.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=13&cat=23

The nice part about it from an add-on perspective is minimal animations. Also there are quality add-ons for all the rockets it's proposed for and the design would be at home atop other rockets too, say the zenit, H-IIb, or GSLV.

Which brings up another point: With this new crop of commerical LEO capsules and spaceplanes, it becomes less and less likely they'll be tied to operations with just their manufacturer or nasa. Add-on developers making add-ons of these might think about making them skinnable so we can have a "SpaceTourism4Less Co." dragons or Ukrainian Space Agency CST-100s, for example.

 

[Kyle]

Tacolev, those are excellent pictures!

 

[Capt_hensley]

I requested a CST-100 long ago, but got no bites. Google images has several good images to work from, and I found some PDFs at Boeing, great reference material, but no one seemed interested.

There are several other items that need to be made as well:
Interorbital Neptune Family(I started a Nep 1000 mesh but got stuck on the nose cone) pieces)
Space Dev, Dream Chaser
NASA CRV, (I bought a mesh from Turbo Squid and modified it, but this needs to be free)
OSC, Cygnus ( I made a mesh from scratch, but it's only 85% accurate)

My machine can handle the job, Too bad I cant draw complex items.

 

[Kyle]

There's a great looking Taurus II/Cygnus out there, but not released. And obviously, there's also a Dragon on orbithangar that's good.

 

[Capt_hensley]

Got the Dragon/Falcon family, I also made meshes for the extended family: F9H, FX, FXH, FXX, I also corrected the decals on the F9, F9H, I have no Idea how to make the add-on from my meshes, and they still need some work because I'm a rank amateur, I hacked what I could into place. They are High-res, and not optimized. But I was able to get the renders for my thesis, and that's all I really needed at the time.

Someday I might actually learn how to fly these things in the sim.

 

[ky]

I requested a CST-100 long ago, but got no bites. Google images has several good images to work from, and I found some PDFs at Boeing, great reference material, but no one seemed interested.

Can you find the thread if possible and show them to me?this is what I have right now.

 

[Capt_hensley]

http://www.aiaa.org/pdf/industry/presentations/Keith_Reiley.pdf
http://boeing.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=1323
http://www.aiaa.org/pdf/industry/presentations/Lindenmoyer_C3PO.pdf Page 6

Google Images search, CST-100
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CST-100

The following threads are applicable
http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?p=280540&highlight=cst-100#post280540
http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?p=258387&highlight=cst-100#post258387
Request submitted by "2252"
http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=16720&highlight=cst-100

One of my comments
http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?p=259523&postcount=37

That should get you rolling along

 

[ky]

Im going to use spacecraft3 for this,but I need someone to help me with that part of it.

 

[Capt_hensley]

I'm Clueless, I looked through all the DLL parts in the SDK the other day, Holy cow!!!
I'm sure there is a developer out there that can help.

 

[Kyle]

I'm pretty sure someone like Donamy or someone on the SSU team could help you with that.

 

[Tacolev]

Here's a question: Anyone got dry and wet masses for this thing? What kind of fuels used? Which engines and what kind of thrust?

 

[Capt_hensley]

^Just what's in the reference links I provided earlier. That's as far as my searchs came up! But I suspect there might be more. I'll have a look in SpaceFlightNow to see what I can come up with.

 

[ky]

I'll contact Boeing if possible.

 

[diogom]

Im going to use spacecraft3 for this,but I need someone to help me with that part of it.

I have a bit of experience in SC3 from the 7k project, but I can't do animations.

 

[Capt_hensley]

IMHO animations can be added to later releases. Lets get the base add-on started, and deal with the nice things as we can. Maybe an animation guru will chime in. Please.