Orbiter Screenshot Thread

[N_Molson]

LES test successful. Ignition :

Blasting away from the pad :

Separation :

And the boilerplate crashes "safely" into the Atlantic (tough it would be safer with a parachute !), after climbing to 3500 meters.

 

[Fabri91]

Hold up,what are those two Capsules docked to the station?One of them looks like the CST-100.....:hmm:

Seems to be ESA's CTV! (not "real" I'm afraid)

 

[diogom]

Seems to be ESA's CTV! (not "real" I'm afraid)

They are, you can see the solar panels. :tiphat:

 

[ky]

Oh I didnt see the solar panels:facepalm:.I still need help with texturing.

 

[Ark]

This is the space station I've been working on for a while. With crew/resupply flights I've flown around 25 missions, and I don't think I'm finished building yet. I started out just trying to use commercial vehicles, but then it turned into a NASA/ESA/CCCP mashup. Core modules boosted with upgraded Saturn Vs, Energia for some ESA stuff, Shuttle for the smaller modules, Proton for the Russian segment. Crew and cargo flights include Antares, CTV, ETS, Shuttle, ATV, and soon Soyuz and Progress. I used Greg Burch's spaceplanes a few times, but stopped because they were too easy.

Before you ask, yes the Shuttle can dock to that Quasar module without hitting anything.

Every two or three missions the layout of the station gets changed up due to docking requirements or clearance issues. Didn't start with a clear plan and don't intend to have one! :lol:

 

[Relayer91]

Next mission - STS-106! Yes, I'm flying every ISS shuttle mission I can, I'd have posted images from STS-88, but I had to format my hard drive since then, so no screenies from that one.

Another bog-standard ISS resupply mission with nothing tricky about it.

Atlantis on the pad


Liftoff!


SRB Sep - looking back at KSC


RV with the ISS


Dr. Lu connecting cables between Zarya and Zvesda


Cruising above the Earth


Undocking, goodbye ISS!


Approaching the HAC, and a nice landing.

 

[SandroSalgueiro]

Waiting for plane alignment burn and then de-orbit.

 

[Scav]

Tex,

Where, oh where did you get that cargo bay texture? Me likey.

 

[Chub777]

Falcon 9 carrying a Dragon spacecraft (cargo version) sitting on the pad:

Launch:

Max Q:

The Falcon 9's (spent) 1st stage about to splashdown:

Dragon-C1 separates from stage 2:

The sun shining down on the Dragon craft:

Space station Independence is closing in (first person to guess why I chose that name can get a cookie ) :

The station's cross design:

 

[Wonderer]

Falcon 9 carrying a Dragon spacecraft (cargo version) sitting on the pad:

Launch:

Max Q:

The Falcon 9's (spent) 1st stage about to splashdown:

Dragon-C1 separates from stage 2:

The sun shining down on the Dragon craft:

Space station Independence is closing in (first person to guess why I chose that name can get a cookie ) :

The station's cross design:

You started building the station on the 4-th of July?

 

[Chub777]

You started building the station on the 4-th of July?

Nope. I'll give you a clue:Armageddon

 

[SandroSalgueiro]

Well, Independence is the name of a crashed shuttle in the Armageddon film. At first I thought the name was translating the possibility of going to space autonomously (not by NASA).

 

[Arthur Dent]

A mothership from Independence day? A just see a giant black patch of nothingness on the space station Independence pictures.

 

[Chub777]

Well, Independence is the name of a crashed shuttle in the Armageddon film. At first I thought the name was translating the possibility of going to space autonomously (not by NASA).

*ding ding ding* Your prize is:

I didn't want to name it Freedom since there's already [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Station_Freedom"]one of the same name[/ame]. So I named it Independence.

 

[Stevodoran]

 

[C3PO]

A just see a giant black patch of nothingness on the space station Independence pictures.

With a little tinkering with false colours:

 

[SandroSalgueiro]

Oh, I loved the added blur!

 

[Tex]

Tex,

Where, oh where did you get that cargo bay texture? Me likey.

[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=4984"]XR5 Cargo bay v2 Light[/ame]

I love his stuff! Check out all of his skins as well. :thumbup:

 

[Spacethingy]

We need a little Rod Stewart here...
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"We are scramming, we are scramming,
Home again, cross the sea,
We are scramming, after dodgy reentries,
To reach WIN, to be free."

 

[Izack]

Upcoming space station:

It's taken quite some behind-the-scns (pun intended, go ahead and hate me ) magic so far to get Piper's modules working satisfactorily...