Orbiter Screenshot Thread

[Tex]

Also, our other tester PeterRoss took an IMS vessel beyond the confines of the solar system for the first time:

That's a good shot! Pretty cool looking planet atmosphere too.

 

[TMac3000]

I'm sure is MiG-21. :lol:

That keypad makes it look American, but the blue cockpit makes it look Russian. Now I'm confused

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Okay, definitely F/A-18

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Ack, never mind, it is MiG-21-2000, which is why I didn't recognize it:facepalm:

 

[Loru]

More jet mode testing...

 

[sitha241]

Orbiter on galaxy s plus

I have instaled remote desktop on my android phone and used it to play orbiter..it lags a bit but it is playable

 

[Alfastar]

Trassa 10L launch from CSSC (Carl Sagan Space Center) LC-02.

 

[Kyle]

COTS-2+ docked to the International Space Station, view from Cupola. May 25th, 2012.

 

[Pablo49]

Monxcleyr Aerospace XR-2 doing flybys over CSSC because they do what they want. Also pretty sure they blew out every window on the island, sorry Loru.

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

The Carl Sagan Space Center has now officially opened with the successful launch of it's first launch campaign. A Zenit-2 rocket lifted-off from pad 2 at 18:56 UTC on March 13, 2013 (6:56 am local) and steered south at sunrise. In just 30 minutes, the two stage rocket and a Star-37 solid upper stage delivered ESA's Envisat-2 into a 780 km Sun-synchronous orbit.

The satellite is a replacement of the original Envisat, which failed after functioning as ESA's flagship Earth observation satellite for 10 years. Carrying a large suite of instruments from institutions around the globe, it will continue to serve scientists with senses of our own Earth.

This is the first launch from CSST, a major milestone for this Pacific spaceport. CSST has already attracted RSSC Energia and SpaceX to set up launch operations there (of the Falcon 9, the Falcon Heavy, the Zenit 2/3 and the Energia rockets). The next flight is scheduled in late March, when an Energia SHLV will deliver the Deep Space Communications Satellite to Mars.

 

[jedidia]

A somewhat megalomanical contest broke out among IMS testers as they're seeing who can get the biggest ship to Alpha Centauri.

Peter Ross' "Sid Meyer":

and Nexiss' "Liberator":

Luckily there's no damage model yet, otherwise I think we'd be in for a major Titanic moment somewhere down the line :shifty:

 

[Pipcard]

an Energia SHLV will deliver the Deep Space Communications Satellite to Mars.

Don't you think that the Energia is too big for that? That satellite is only about 1.5 mT.

The Energia has a payload capacity of about 100 mT to LEO.

The gross mass of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is about 2.2 mT.

The Atlas V 401 used to launch it has a capacity of about 9.05 mT to LEO. (and the upper stage went to a simple Hohmann transfer orbit to Mars, no slingshots)

 

[IronRain]

Don't you think that the Energia is too big for that? That satellite is only about 1.5 mT.

The Energia has a payload capacity of about 100 mT to LEO.

The gross mass of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is about 2.2 mT.

The Atlas V 401 used to launch it has a capacity of about 9.05 mT to LEO. (and the upper stage went to a simple Hohmann transfer orbit to Mars, no slingshots)

It's orbiter, so why not

 

[N_Molson]

Well, he can always send a fleet of communication satellites in one launch, to build a network around Mars

 

[Loru]

Ground crew needed. Fast. Requirements: BRAIN

 

[mojoey]

Ground crew needed. Fast. Requirements: BRAIN

So...hiring the SpaceX guys was a bad idea?

 

[Donamy]

Ground crew needed. Fast. Requirements: BRAIN

note to self: pointy end up !

 

[N_Molson]

Its a new revolutionary way to use rockets. Instead of sending stuff into space, they are now used for mining purposes. The fairing is replaced by a fast-rotating screw. :lol:

 

[mojoey]

I believe they call it the 'Bruce Willis' of rockets

 

[Donamy]

Working on a graple for Dragon.

 

[C3PO]

note to self: pointy end up !

Even the pros do it.

 

[TMac3000]

I believe they call it the 'Bruce Willis' of rockets

Yippie ky-yay motha