if u guys give me some kind of idea of the lander i can make the mesh
From the wiki page that everyone should have read by now:
Orbiter Wiki said:
OSHV (Orbital and Surface habitation vessel)
- Proposed vehicles ( pending )
This module is the primary vessel where the crew will live and work during the entire mission. This module needs to be able to aerobrake and land on Mars. Support several crew for at least 2 years (with the help of service modules ext)
Design options:
- Environmental Control and Life Support Subsystem (ECLSS)
- Electrical Power Subsystem
- Power generation
- Power storage
- Landing system
- Integrated landing system
- External landing system
- Skycrane
- With inflatable heat shield
- with rigid heat shield
In other words, no concrete design has been reached yet, but there is a general overview.
Remember, form follows function here. The vessel will be designed based on what it has to do. It's open to propositions, so feel free to post your ideas on the matter. Meshes will come once there is a concrete design to base them on.
If we build a ship before we have its purposes ironed out, we'll end up with an Orion. In other words, an complete failure.
Columbia42 said:
1) If someone knows where to find the source code (and has the knowledge to edit it) for the LM from NASSP or AMSO, we could fairly easily turn that into a good mars lander. (I know it would be a somewhat large project but the lander is an important part of the mission and I for one would like to see some accurate systems simulation so that it can be flown more realistically.
The Apollo LM is nowhere near large enough to be the OSHV. Furthermore, it's built of half-century-old technology. I wouldn't mind if the finalised OSHV design drew from LM concepts or even the Altair concept, though. I remember an old von Braun concept that struck my fancy, but I can't seem to find it.
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[...] and two; the entire vehicle would collapse under its own weight under martian gravity. The Apollo LM was an EXTREMELY fragile vessel that was only meant to be able to support its own weight under LUNAR gravity.
Well, it was built on Earth and didn't collapse there.