Hello from Turkey

[tsp]

Hello. I'm not new to Orbiter. Our meeting was years ago. But unfortunately I couldn't understand that it was not a computer game in space but a realistic simulator at that time and I gave up after lots of failures.

But now things have changed except my enthusiasm for space and Orbiter. Now I can take Delta-glider from Earth and dock to ISS. I understand basic concepts of space flight. Right now I'm trying for reentry. Then a moon flight and after a Mars mission is planned in long term :thumbup:.

I appreciate experienced orbinauts help in this forum to accomplish those long term plans. Thank you.

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Welcome to the forums! :hello:

Glad to hear that you stuck with it and learned the ropes. If youre working on learning reentry, the basic technique is quite simple, just burn retrograde until your orbit intersects the ground. That being said, many reentries of that type would subject a real crew to fatal G-forces (deacceleration forces), so I would highly reccomend learning this tutorial http://www.eharm.net/shop/freeware/orbiter/tutorials/orbiter_instrument/decend.html
by a real NASA employee (or so they say).

Doing a (non-fatal) lunar landing all in all is quite challenging, but there are a few good tutorials available which I can link to if you like. My suggestion would be just to try a lunar flyby mission first, but its always your choice.

 

[Codz]

Welcome to the forum, and congratulations for being able to push past the initial difficulty curve!

 

[Ripley]

 

[tsp]

Welcome to the forums! :hello:

Glad to hear that you stuck with it and learned the ropes. If youre working on learning reentry, the basic technique is quite simple, just burn retrograde until your orbit intersects the ground. That being said, many reentries of that type would subject a real crew to fatal G-forces (deacceleration forces), so I would highly reccomend learning this tutorial http://www.eharm.net/shop/freeware/orbiter/tutorials/orbiter_instrument/decend.html
by a real NASA employee (or so they say).

Doing a (non-fatal) lunar landing all in all is quite challenging, but there are a few good tutorials available which I can link to if you like. My suggestion would be just to try a lunar flyby mission first, but its always your choice.

Thank you very much Bruce, nice to meet you .

I had a lot of tutorials for reentry but not that one. Thanks for the link. Before a lunar mission I should accomplish this first, because right now I am sliding through the atmosphere like a stone sliding on the water :lol: and it's quite a challenge. I know my velocity is not low enough but experience comes after such efforts. Sooner or later I will land to a base.

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Thank you Codz and thank you Ripley. Nice to meet you .

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Thank you very much Bruce, nice to meet you .

I had a lot of tutorials for reentry but not that one. Thanks for the link. Before a lunar mission I should accomplish this first, because right now I am sliding through the atmosphere like a stone sliding on the water :lol: and it's quite a challenge. I know my velocity is not low enough but experience comes after such efforts. Sooner or later I will land to a base.

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Thank you Codz and thank you Ripley. Nice to meet you .

Yeah, targeted reentry is really difficult without a pre-made flight-plan. As I understand it, the space shuttle uses high speed S-turns through the upper atmosphere at varying widths of swing (ie width of the S) in order to keep a particular landing point right on target. If I interpret your problem right (very visual description), you probably are skipping off the atmosphere, so youll need to reduce your velocity even more when you deorbit. Good luck with that :thumbup:

 

[tsp]

Yeah, targeted reentry is really difficult without a pre-made flight-plan. As I understand it, the space shuttle uses high speed S-turns through the upper atmosphere at varying widths of swing (ie width of the S) in order to keep a particular landing point right on target. If I interpret your problem right (very visual description), you probably are skipping off the atmosphere, so youll need to reduce your velocity even more when you deorbit. Good luck with that :thumbup:

After countless of tries I couldn't manage manual reentry. So I used Aerobrake MFD to do the right calculations and let the AP control the AoA. Result was a total success except crashing to the spaceport instead of landing :lol:. Again after countless crashes I managed to land clearly to the spaceport (with a little bit missing runway but now I improved that too :thumbup. That's me in Wideawake Int:



Now what should I do before interplanetary missions to make things more exciting? I saw some videos that crew evacuated to space. People orbiting their satelittes. How can I do these? Do I need additional add-ons? (Currently Aerobrake, Basesync, DGIV, Wideawake loaded)

 

[dgatsoulis]

Hey neighbour, welcome to the forums!

Congrats on the successful reentry, those are tricky and you can never have too much practise.

Now what should I do before interplanetary missions to make things more exciting? I saw some videos that crew evacuated to space. People orbiting their satelittes. How can I do these? Do I need additional add-ons? (Currently Aerobrake, Basesync, DGIV, Wideawake loaded)

There are many exciting things to do in Orbiter with just the addons you have.
You can try and get the DGIV's MKTS sattelitte to a geostationary orbit and then return back to your base. If you want to add a little bit more difficulty, try to place the sattelitte over a specific longitude.

Or try a station-hopping mission (ISS-Mir) to learn some things about plane change maneuvers.

I highly suggest to start learning TransX and/or IMFD. They will help you a lot as you try and tackle even greater challenges in Orbiter.

Have fun, happy orbitting.

 

[Loru]

Hello tsp.

welcome to the forums.

 

[tsp]

Hey neighbour, welcome to the forums!

Congrats on the successful reentry, those are tricky and you can never have too much practise.



There are many exciting things to do in Orbiter with just the addons you have.
You can try and get the DGIV's MKTS sattelitte to a geostationary orbit and then return back to your base. If you want to add a little bit more difficulty, try to place the sattelitte over a specific longitude.

Or try a station-hopping mission (ISS-Mir) to learn some things about plane change maneuvers.

I highly suggest to start learning TransX and/or IMFD. They will help you a lot as you try and tackle even greater challenges in Orbiter.

Have fun, happy orbitting.

Thank you neighbour, good to see someone nearby here

I know that there are cargo packs of DGIV but I didn't even realize there is a satelitte among them :facepalm:. Now I found after you mentioned, thank you very much. Now orbiting it will be very exciting :thumbup:.

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Hello tsp.

welcome to the forums.

Hello Loru, nice to meet you :tiphat:

 

[DBD]

Hi from Ohio

Hi. I'm Dave. I am excited to learn Orbiter and use it. I love the math and am looking forward to learning how to maneuver in space.

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Hi. I'm Dave. I am excited to learn Orbiter and use it. I love the math and am looking forward to learning how to maneuver in space.

Nice to hear and welcome :hello:.

Usually people can start their own threads to avoid :threadjacked:, but I think its okay this time. If you have any questions feel free to ask :thumbup: