N1 rocket

[razgriz31m]

will the train transporter be modeled?

 

[MajorTom]

Thank you, Unussapiens, for working on N1. It's high on my list of "must haves."

I had been fiddling with McDope's work on my own. Some nice modeling in the upper stages, though the lower stages could use some work. I figured: hey, with multistage2, and a decent mesh tool, one could work in some improvements! Good to see you're working on it already.

Perhaps someday there could be a great big add-on rivaling AMSO or NASSP, but with Soviet characters... (I'm all about historical add-ons if you haven't guessed)

(Are we sure castorp and company aren't possibly doing a new N1? They've got some ambitious Soviet spacecraft work going on, for sure...)

MT

 

[unussapiens]

I also wonder whether or not Castorp and Co. are working on an N1, but as October Sky has been put on hold, I figure plenty of people will download it.

razgriz31m: If we end up with the launch complex, I'm sure we'll be able to make the train.

 

[razgriz31m]

Wow! the train!...we're all missin' it, heeey where's the screenie? =D

 

[razgriz31m]

BTW nick, pictures of the lunar crasher, the lunar soyuz, the train transpoter and the launch complex can be found here http://www.buran.ru/htm/gud 19.htm

also here: http://www.myspacemuseum.com/n1.htm
also here: http://www.russianspaceweb.com/n1.html (note the flames:no contrails, and looks like a flame on a candle on a windy day)
video here: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/239925/russian_moon_rocket_disaster/

Heya, I have an idea, what about coding it realistically, for example if you're going to launch it, the possibility of success will be 1 or 2 out of 10, so it's very great if you meet success, and thats where we can find thrill! haha..just my idea.

 

[ryan]

When will the first beta come out for this, i cant wait for it.

 

[razgriz31m]

For me, I'm not favourable of releasing beta''s maybe versions like 1.1 1.2 1.3 and so on will be better, because we can expect something new in each version. But with the beta's it will be spoiling us so if the real version comes, we are not interested anymore because we already played it. But again, it's just my opinion^_^

 

[ryan]

I agree they should do that.

 

[razgriz31m]

thanks

 

[unussapiens]

Thanks a lot for the links, those are some great pics. (I'd found the 3rd one before, but not the other ones).

As for release date, I think I can safely say it'll be released on Tuesday.

 

[razgriz31m]

whooww...that was fast! any teaser shots?

 

[unussapiens]

Apart from the first couple, not yet.

 

[ryan]

Will they contain landing scenarios?

 

[razgriz31m]

oh snap!

 

[ryan]

''oh snap''? i was just asking him.

 

[unussapiens]

There may be landing scenarios. It depends on how much info I can get on the planned orbits. If I can't get enough, I'll make some fictional ones.

 

[razgriz31m]

wahahah.you misunderstood me haha...i was replying to unssapiens last post@! XD

 

[razgriz31m]

There may be landing scenarios. It depends on how much info I can get on the planned orbits. If I can't get enough, I'll make some fictional ones.

ohh that's okay since n1 didn't really reached space, BTW is all paint schemes included?

 

[Graham2001]

There may be landing scenarios. It depends on how much info I can get on the planned orbits. If I can't get enough, I'll make some fictional ones.

Here is some information that might help, both in terms of scenario planning and spacecraft design:

1. How to compute the launch time of a lunar probe
http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/histind/N1target/zondlt.htm

2. Target of N-1 launches and nature of 7K-L1S spacecraft
http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/histind/N1target/n1target.htm

3. Mission profiles of 7K-L1 flights (Zond series of lunar test flights).
http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/histind/Zondmiss/Zondmiss.htm

4. Zond (7K-L1) cockpit layout.
http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/histind/Zondmiss/Zondcock.htm

 

[Urwumpe]

There may be landing scenarios. It depends on how much info I can get on the planned orbits. If I can't get enough, I'll make some fictional ones.

I remember some drawings about the proposed landing and the suggestion of using lunar surface rendezvous with a second unmanned landed LK for returning the astronaut.

I also remember a series of VERY good pencil drawings of a LOK/LK mission to the moon. No CGI rendering can cause so much emotion in you, than seeing those masterpieces of art, I really have to find the URL again.

The trajectory planning had been very similar to Apollo, but the maneuvers had been executed differently.

TLI was executed with the forth stage of the N-1, MCCs and lunar orbit insertion with the Block D of the LOK/LK stack.

After reaching stable lunar orbit, one astronaut did an EVA to transfer to a hatch behind the LOK, and enter the LK, which is still covered in a light fairing. Then, the LOK gets separated from the Block D and the fairing gets jettisoned. Now, the Block D lowers the perilune altitude to 14.5 km (like DOI) and finally does the first stage of the braking maneuver. In about 4 km altitude, the Block D runs dry of fuel and gets jettisoned (lunar crasher stage). Now the LK engines do the final descend and landing.

For liftoff, the LK leaves the landing gear behind and puts itself in a low orbit. I think now the LOK was the active craft for docking with the LK and maneuvered itself to docking. Somebody should check this. The astronaut again makes an EVA to return to the LOK and the LOK does the TEI burn. Rest is like Apollo...