Orbiter Screenshot Thread

[Scruce]

The Buran Shuttle:

 

[AmBaIbA]

These are some of my best ones

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Nice sepia effect!

 

[n122vu]

A Maintfury operator inspects the new and improved, shinier shield panels on the EAS Cortez.




Specular reflections added to some of the materials in the mesh of the Cortez. Will update on OH soon, after a few other tweaks.

Work on the Maintfury also continues, thought at a gradual pace.

 

[Scav]

Left to right: Ganymede, Jupiter, and Io.

 

[IronRain]

My return to flight mission since my whole orbiter partition was deleted: IapetusOrbiter. IapetusOrbiter will orbit Iapetus and gather data for a manned expedition to this moon..

F35B taxiing to inspect JSC

F35B taking a look at the Themis launch vehicle

A shot from a patrol boat with Themis and the F35B in the background

Launch will occur tomorrow.

 

[Scav]

It's so hot, it's white-hot:



Peak heating during a 65km PeA aerobraking pass from TEI for 45 seconds. Velocity in was 11.6 km/sec; velocity out was 10.2 km/sec.

Also broke a record (and an XR5) during the reentry phase after I FUBARed the translation burn. This was at 52 km up, at Mach 18.2.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Pyromaniac605's new USCG XR2 skin.

 

[mojoey]

It's so hot, it's white-hot:

View attachment 8763

Peak heating during a 65km PeA aerobraking pass from TEI for 45 seconds. Velocity in was 11.6 km/sec; velocity out was 10.2 km/sec.

Also broke a record (and an XR5) during the reentry phase after I FUBARed the translation burn. This was at 52 km up, at Mach 18.2.

View attachment 8764

you certainly blazed that record
Ive never been too lucky with aerobraking (dont ask about my mars encounter with an XR-5)

 

[Aeadar]

Leaving WIN for Krayniy Airport:

 

[IronRain]

Launch photo's of IapetusOrbiter (IPO)

Themis on the launchpad, ready for launch

Lift-off!

Ascending to orbit

Booster separation

Fairing separation

MECO, standing by for staging

Good staging

TSI

Spacecraft separation

All instruments deployed. IPO is on her way to Iapetus!

 

[Scruce]

Luna-Apparat I (N1-L3) with Alexei Leonov, Vladimir Shatalov and Pyotr Klimuk launch toward the Moon. This will mark the first Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon since the previous mission (Luna-Orbita XII with Vladimir Komarov and Aleksandr Serebrov orbited the Moon).

Leonov will become the third man (after Apollo XI) and the first Soviet on the Moon, Klimuk will join him on the surface in the Lunniy Korabl (LK) while Shatalov will remain in the Lunniy Orbitalny Korabl (LOK).

The launch date is on the 25th October 1969 on the anniversary of the October Revolution, it will take four days for the L3 stack to reach the Moon. Landing is planned at the 100 hour mark, which should be on the 29th October.

It's a great day for launch; The N1 rocket takes off from a specially designed pad:

Tower clear!

Orbit insertion burn:

On the way to the Moon:

Entering Earth eclipse area, Moon is in sight:

...to be continued!

 

[Aeadar]

Plasma! Ex style:

 

[Star Voyager]

Luna-Apparat I (N1-L3) with Alexei Leonov, Vladimir Shatalov and Pyotr Klimuk launch toward the Moon. This will mark the first Soviet cosmonaut on the Moon since the previous mission (Luna-Orbita XII with Vladimir Komarov and Aleksandr Serebrov orbited the Moon).

Leonov will become the third man (after Apollo XI) and the first Soviet on the Moon, Klimuk will join him on the surface in the Lunniy Korabl (LK) while Shatalov will remain in the Lunniy Orbitalny Korabl (LOK).

The launch date is on the 25th October 1969 on the anniversary of the October Revolution, it will take four days for the L3 stack to reach the Moon. Landing is planned at the 100 hour mark, which should be on the 29th October.

It's a great day for launch; The N1 rocket takes off from a specially designed pad:

Tower clear!

Orbit insertion burn:

On the way to the Moon:

Entering Earth eclipse area, Moon is in sight:

...to be continued!

What ever happened to Apollo 19?

 

[mojoey]

yeah, we want to know!!!

*hands out pitchforks and torches*

 

[Scruce]

What ever happened to Apollo 19?

They interlink, please allow me time to draw out the story.

 

[mojoey]

Well hurry up darnit!

 

[Star Voyager]

They interlink, please allow me time to draw out the story.

Okay, thanks :thumbup:! I just wasn't sure if you were continuing or not.

 

[PeriapsisPrograde]

A runway? In space?

Maybe.

 

[Pipcard]

A runway? In space?

Maybe.

On an airbace?