Orbiter Screenshot Thread

[Stevodoran]

eh which star addon is that??

 

[Izack]

eh which star addon is that??

Photoshop. :thumbup:

 

[Stevodoran]

Photoshop. :thumbup:

awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.....................

testing the eagle 3:thumbup:
the rover seems fine

wow small compared to the eagle

waiting................

the landing pad loves me too much. It wont let me go!!

bye for now

nice cockpit don't ya think??

going for orbit

 

[HAL9001]

Here's an really beautiful picture of a reentering DGIV:

 

[gattispilot]

AlphaBuggy

AlphaBuggy ready for loading

AlphaBuggy loaded in aft section of Eagle

 

[Jer95]

Capt::facepalm:!
Uhh.. Houston the HKers has landed on mars first!

 

[JonnyBGoode]

Stevodoran: I do hope you release that lovely package soon!

I was testing BaseLand MFD. Works pretty spiffy! Pad landings have always been a pain for me. (Btw, anyone know if BaseLand MFD works on Mars?)

(This was part of a larger mission I was doing: there's a mother craft in lunar orbit (the James Cook) which is assembling a space station. The DG was going down for supplies and will rendezvous with the mother craft for the return trip to Earth.

 

[gattispilot]

Eagle3 on the crane in the A-PAd

 

[Keatah]

Personally I love being WAY out in the solar system and Neptune is probably my favorite planet. Looking back from there makes you feel so small as you try to place Earth next to the sun which looks like some distant bright star.

I gotta agree with that. The inner planets are basically boring rocks. Jupiter looks pissed off with that atmosphere. Saturn is neat, but drabby in color. Uranus is puke green. Neptune, well now.. that's a planet! The last planet in the solar system (according to IAU). I wonder what sort of life form could live in a diamond ocean? I'm sure something is down there!

As a matter of fact I think I'll go for an outer planet cruise this weekend! Maybe put on some Jonn Serrie ambient sounds. No screaming rock ballads. Just good space-cruising instrumentals. Get a little warmed red wine of a sorts. It's getting cold here now and below freezing is expected soon. So that just adds to the romantic isolation of the deep Solar System. Yeh, good times! High-class Orbiting no doubt:thumbup:

 

[HAL9001]

and another nice DGIV reentering screenshot

another nice one:

:hail:

 

[Stevodoran]

don't thank me thank gattispilot he made it i am just testing it......speaking of testing:thumbup:
heres some more pics

got colored suits

opening the doors

here come's the rover:hail:

outside the travel unit

inside the travel unit

the new pad

carrying a new module but their is plenty more:thumbup:

inside the module!!

''Cough..this helmet is really tight..''

who let the module go??

yes it does have action areas

THIS IS NO MINE IT IS MADE BY GATTISPILOT I AM ONLY TESTING IT

 

[HAL9001]

Have you tried to do a XR1 with the radiator open from takeoff to orbital insertation without losing the radiator?
EDIT: did another tries:
Attempt 2: Radiator failed at takeoff roll
Attempt 3: Radiator failed at ~8000 ft
Attempt 4:success! pics below

I did it with an DGIV. If you fly up to ca. 35km carefully the rest is easy in the low pressure.

 

[squeaky024]

I took these photos while preparing to dock the XR5 for construction.

Messing around with my station:

Using the XR5 to light up the dark side from afar. Orbital sunrise.

A look at the horizon, and a view of the station's layout.

Another picture...

And now for my first 3d image! Cross your eyes till the images merge. I know the angles aren't perfect but at least it works :tiphat:

 

[JonnyBGoode]

I like the stereo, cool!

I finally re-learned interplanetary travel. Started out with the Arrow in Earth orbit by the ISS, docked a DG in the bay and took off for Europa.

Entering the Jovian system, I got a nice fly-by of Io...

Finally made it to this iceball...

Disembarking to head down to Galileo base...

Finally landed on Europa, and parked in the hangar. Yay!

 

[squeaky024]

How's the ice fishing? :lol:

 

[JonnyBGoode]

Well it's good there's a crevasse there; it's really a pain cutting through several miles of rock to get at the Europan squidslugs.

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Picking up the glider coming back up from Europa...

On the way home, I made an even closer flyby of Io:

Nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.

 

[Jer95]

Shes DEAD!

 

[N_Molson]

Proton-Soyuz Joint Launch (an old dream made true !)

I used the Thorton's ProtonLV & ISSR + ProjectR7, and added an handy docking port to the block DM2 using the .cfg file.

I first launched a Proton-M with no payload (well, the payload was the Block DM-2). I managed to put in on a 180x410 km orbit without using the DM2 engine.

About one day later I launched a R7/Soyuz-TMA to a 190 x 210 orbit (using LaunchMFD). The rendez-vous manoeuvers took about 36 hours (something like 25 orbits).

That was a difficult docking, the module was spinning, and I didn't want to waste it's precious RCS fuel (that you need for the ullage burns). The encounter took place on the night side, so the headlight greatly helped me. :thumbup: Once docked, I was able to counter the spin motion with the SoyuzTMA RCS, without burning too much fuel.

Now that I'm there, I'm going to make some thrust experiments on LEO. The ultimate goal is the Moon, but I need to test the assembly before.

 

[Thorton]

Some thoughts about this flight:
1. Each ullage burn require about 37 kg of fuel and DM2 engine is able to ignite up to 4 times. Assuming this you have at least 52 kg for establishing orientation (if you use all four burns), which is enough from my point of view. I believe you should try to save Soyuz propellant as much as possible, because you don't know how much you will need for trajectory corrections.

2. I can't say for sure, because i don't remember, but there is a possibility that SA will burn in Earth's atmosphere during reentry from escape trajectory (or similar).

 

[N_Molson]

I kept the periapsis at 200km, and performed four burns.

After the second burn, I got a 200x19,000km orbit :

After the third burn, I was on a 200x390,000km orbit, which demonstrated that the stack had enough Dv to reach the Moon :

I had 2k propellant left, so I performed a fourth and final retrograde burn to lower the orbit to 100x38,000km. The DM2 ran out of fuel, so it was time to say goodbye :

I had put three cosmonauts in the capsule using UMMUFA, so I couldn't resist to perform an EVA 38,000 kms away from Earth :

BO separation at 2500 kms of altitude :

Then I aimed for a 60km periapsis, jettisoned the SM and the crew started to sing chants to ask the Probe to help the heat shield ! At 130km of altitude, the autopilot took the hand. It probably detected that the trajectory was off-nominal and choosed the ballistic reentry option ! At 90km, the heat shield began to heat significantly :

At 75km, the situation was almost hopeless :

A few seconds after, a few hundred meters below 70km, what should happen happened :

Oh, shooting stars !! Obviously Thorton was right Does that count as a new way to kill UmmUs ?

To sum up, a circumlunar flight is possible using a joint ProtonM-DM2 / SoyuzTMA launch & rendez-vous in LEO. What we need is a better (and heavier) heat shield for the Soyuz