OHM Falcon9R

[Pipcard]

Your programming is really good: the autopilot is very smooth and works perfectly, even in x10 time acceleration and external view (although it kind of jitters in x10 internal view, but that's not really a problem).

 

[BrianJ]

EDIT: Updated for Tuesday launch attempt.

A scenario for Tuesday's launch of CRS-6. Begins at 20:00 UTC, launch at 20:10:40 UTC. ISS state vectors from JPL Horizons.

BEGIN_DESC
Launch CRS6 from KSC at 20:10:40 UTC, 14 Apr 2015

Press [V] for ascent autopilot at T-10.

200km x 360km orbit at 51.65deg inc.

1st stage flyback to ASDS.
END_DESC

BEGIN_ENVIRONMENT
  System Sol
  Date MJD  57126.8333333302
END_ENVIRONMENT

BEGIN_FOCUS
  Ship Falcon9
END_FOCUS

BEGIN_CAMERA
  TARGET Falcon9
  MODE Extern
  POS 3.97 60.23 33.32
  TRACKMODE Ground Earth
  GROUNDLOCATION -80.57961 28.56080 48.66
  FOV 40.00
END_CAMERA

BEGIN_HUD
  TYPE Surface
END_HUD

BEGIN_MFD Left
  TYPE Orbit
  PROJ Frame
  FRAME Equator
  ALT
  REF Earth
  TARGET ISS
END_MFD

BEGIN_MFD Right
  TYPE Map
  REF Earth
  OTARGET ISS
  ZOOM 8
  POS -1.41 0.50
  DISP 1711
END_MFD

BEGIN_SHIPS
ISS:ProjectAlpha_ISS
  STATUS Orbiting Earth
  RPOS -4365076.49755492  838021.492415995 -5115529.21550747
  RVEL  4380.39009050604 -4439.81141850461 -4470.19100303621
  AROT -131.68 -34.38 -130.00
  VROT -0.0601 -0.0000 0.0000
  AFCMODE 7
  PRPLEVEL 0:1.000000
  IDS 0:588 10 1:586 10 2:584 10 3:582 10 4:580 10
  NAVFREQ 0 0
  XPDR 466
END
SLC40:Falcon9R/slc40r
  STATUS Landed Earth
  POS -80.5771995 28.5619578
  HEADING 10.00
  AFCMODE 7
  PRPLEVEL 0:1.000000 1:1.000000
  NAVFREQ 0 0
  PST 0.00 0.00
  TOWER 3 0.00
END
DragonCapsule:Falcon9R\dragon
  STATUS Landed Earth
  POS 0.0049239 0.0049239
  HEADING 0.00
  AROT 126.498 -7.541 -29.258
  ATTACHED 3:0,Falcon9
  AFCMODE 7
  PRPLEVEL 0:0.999245
  NAVFREQ 94 481
  RCS 1
  CTRL_SURFACE 1
  CONFIGURATION 0
  CURRENT_PAYLOAD 0
  SEQ 0 -2 0.000000
  SEQ 1 -2 0.000000
END
Dragontrunk:spacecraft\spacecraft3
  STATUS Landed Earth
  POS 0.0049239 0.0049239
  HEADING 0.00
  ATTACHED 0:0,DragonCapsule
  AFCMODE 7
  NAVFREQ 0 0
  RCS 1
  CTRL_SURFACE 1
  CONFIGURATION 1
  CURRENT_PAYLOAD 0
  SEQ 0 -2 0.000000
END
Sun_joint:Falcon9R\pv34_joint
  STATUS Landed Earth
  POS 0.0049239 0.0049239
  HEADING 0.00
  ATTACHED 0:0,Dragontrunk
  AFCMODE 7
  NAVFREQ 0 0
  TRACKING 0
  CURR_ANG 0.000000
  TGT_ANG 0.000000
  ROT_SPEED 1.052360
END
dragonpanels:Spacecraft\Spacecraft3
  STATUS Landed Earth
  POS 0.0000000 0.0000000
  HEADING 0.00
  ATTACHED 0:0,Sun_joint
  AFCMODE 7
  NAVFREQ 0 0
  RCS 1
  CTRL_SURFACE 1
  CONFIGURATION 1
  CURRENT_PAYLOAD 0
  SEQ 0 2 0.999909
END
Falcon9:Falcon9R\f9_drg
  STATUS Landed Earth
  POS -80.5771995 28.5619578
  HEADING 10.00
  ATTACHED 0:0,SLC40
  AFCMODE 7
  PRPLEVEL 0:1.000000 1:1.000000 2:1.000000
  NAVFREQ 0 0
  FAIRS 1
  SOST 0 0 0 0 1
  SOPR 0.9015 200000.0 360000.0 35000.0 150000.0 ASDS
END
ASDS:Falcon9R/barge
  STATUS Landed Earth
  POS -78.7760000 30.0000000
  HEADING 90.00
  NAVFREQ 0 0
END
END_SHIPS

BEGIN_ExtMFD
END

Cheers,
Brian

 

[SCEtoAUX]

@BrianJ

Is there a reason why the perigee of the CRS-6 mission is so low ?
An issue with the launcher or it was planned ?

 

[BrianJ]

@BrianJ

Is there a reason why the perigee of the CRS-6 mission is so low ?
An issue with the launcher or it was planned ?

I'm sure if there was an issue with the launcher, we would have heard plenty about it!
But I'm not sure why the low perigee - I think I got the figures from the pre-launch press conference or maybe spaceflightnow.
Maybe they needed a lower orbit for Dragon to catch up to ISS quicker?(just guessing).
Cheers,
Brian

 

[Donamy]

A couple shots of a WIP.

 

[BrianJ]

Just noticed a bug where payload mass is not added if payload is attached "in-sim".
Now fixed and updated on OH.

 

[Wolf]

Just noticed a bug where payload mass is not added if payload is attached "in-sim".
Now fixed and updated on OH.

Can we simply install this update over the older revision?

 

[BrianJ]

Can we simply install this update over the older revision?

Yes, just overwrite everything. Or unzip to your desktop or wherever and just copy over the Modules/Falcon9R/f9.dll .

 

[Pipcard]

I seem to recall reading an interview with Elon Musk where he said the Falcon9 could actually lift 17T to LEO - but I certainly can't find the reference now. Maybe my Falcon9 is a trifle overpowered - I used the most reliable sources I could find on the web for the specs.

I found this, though:

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell says Falcon 9's reusability is already designed into the rocket's first stage, including the weight of the landing legs that would otherwise detract from the rocket's performance. She also said Falcon 9 retains 30% performance margin over the company's advertised mass-to-orbit capability of 4,850 kg to GTO

4850 kg to GTO corresponds with 13150 kg to LEO on their website, so the full expendable capacity would be about 17000 kg with a 30% increase if that's the case. Or almost 19000 kg if 13150 is 70% of full capacity.

 

[Marg]

I did not know where to post this, so BrianJ can read... I just realized that the only working local light source in Orbiter BETA+d3d9 is on the launch pad 40 where Falcon 9H (for new Orbiter BETA) resides and launches. May I ask BrianJ to update spotlight for Orbiter BETA (when there is spare time)?
Because in Orbiter BETA + inline client spotlights (spotlight2 in shuttle's payload bay) work, but there seems some FPS problem (maybe), I noticed that Orbiter closes very slowly, upon exiting. So there is some kind of a problem.

 

[BrianJ]

Hi Marg,
I'll see if I can update my OrbiterBeta to the latest release version and compile a spotlight2 with the Beta SDK later today