Orbiter Screenshot Thread

Passing over New Zealand shortly after launch.

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After several burns made it on station flying over my home country Holland

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A foray into 2D panel design:

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Yes, it looks awful, but it's a start. :shifty:

Depends how you look at it.

If you're an expert addon developer, then it looks <words>...

If you're like me, and has no idea how to make a 2D panel, you're a god.

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Heh. Thank you, but 'expert' is a title best left for other, more qualified folks. This one is only trundling through tutorials and samples, with only a budding grasp of programming. :tiphat:
 
A little space sunrise for you, brought to you by Discovery:
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(yes, I love lens flares, what's wrong with that ? :lol: )
 
I just finished the STS-61 mission where Space Shuttle Endeavour goes up to correct Hubble's vision.

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Launch!

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After a successful launch, Endeavour is in orbit, waiting for the Hubble Space Telescope to catch up with it.

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After more than two days, HST is lined up with the Shuttle, grappled and ready to be moved down to the cargo bay for reparations.

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Two astronauts performing a complex EVA for repair of the telescope. They have to replace solar panels, gyroscopes, corrected optics, etc.

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After the EVA, Hubble is reboosted to a higher altitude (614 km x 614 km orbit).

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Hubble is repaired and go for release!

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"I'm the king of the world!" An fictitious EVA for inspection of the vessel before the reentry.

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After deorbit and reentry, the Shuttle glides home at supersonic velocities.

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A fully manual reentry (with the help of Glideslope 2) with G loads mostly below 1.5 G's ends with the most successful landing I've ever had! A fantastic end to a spectacular mission!

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Hubble Space Telescope is alone in orbit, ready for some great pictures revealing the secrets of the universe.

A huge "thank you" to [ame="http://orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=5484"]Brian J[/ame], David413, Jarmonik and Dr. Martin Schweiger!:hail:
 
Continuing to tweak the Earth Alliance Maintfury/Forklift Fury (Spacecraft3 version).

Simple UMMU test utilizing a single attachment point located in the cockpit. Attached, in reverse, to the child attachment point located on the front of the UMMU itself. Claws opened almost to full extension (claws operated independently, but not associated with their respective attachment points due to SC3 limitations).
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Initial release within 1-2 weeks if all goes to plan
 
A foray into 2D panel design:

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Yes, it looks awful, but it's a start. :shifty:

I think it looks great :thumbup:

Another update on the voyage of the Altair, between the moons of UPS andromedae D.

After a week or two orbiting UPS And D II at 120 km or so, the Altairs crew prepped for an inspection EVA of the vessel before the trip home.



A relatively major ASTG meltdown pushed the EVA back by a few minutes, but otherwise the flight has been normal lately (this design seems very prone to overheating while in low orbit of a planet, probably the shadow issue I mentioned earlier.











After surveying the craft amidships, moving down toward the NTR engines.



Lookin fine it seems (okay, if they were cracked that would be a cause for much bigger concern :lol:)







Ingress of the Altair. A short EVA as usual.



A few days later, the Altair's return course was plotted for the voyage home









Farewell to UPS D II, for now...

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Where'd you get that terrain? I tried the one from the 'hangar, but never could get the surface tiles to line up right.
 
Hi PhantomCruiser. It's just Slat's LC-39-EAFB High-Res with some high res RWY texture, that I don't recall just now. That and the clouds turned off. (I cheated at scenario start copying the state vectors of Enterprise to the T38 to get on their wing , but the rest I flew.:lol:)

Found it, I think. It's called Edwards Runway but I couldn't find it at OHM?
 
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What a coincidence, Its my runway texture. I took it off yesterday as It was old and I didn,t think anyone wanted it now. :facepalm:
If you have it, you can put it back up yourself by all means.
 
Lunar Repair, Refueling, and Construction Station IOC

Here are some screen captures of various angles of my Lunar Repair, Refueling, and Construction Station at Initial Occupational Capability (IOC). It was built using the R2.3 version of the IMS system.

This was built in low lunar orbit (~100km) with a total of 50 XR5 missions from Brighton Beach, each one bringing up a full payload bay worth of modules. Figuring out how to fill up the entire XR5 payload bay for each flight was half the fun! If you look closely, you'll see my XR5 in orbit near the station to give you some idea of the size of the station so far.

Your eyes are not fooling you. There are so many habitation modules on that centrifuge ring that this station can house 96 people at IOC and can feed/oxygenate/water up to 112 (see the screen captures of the station stats).

Eventually this station will have 2 docking areas (with multiple types of docking ports in each one) with repair and refueling facilities capable of handling 2 Arrow Freighters at the same time. It will also have a 2nd Habitation ring to make it symmetric and bring it's total occupancy in the gravity zones to 192. There may be zero-gravity habitation modules as well bringing the total occupancy to somewhere near 225.

I have flown each of the 50 missions to this station, and installed each module using the URMS and the XR5 EVA crew (there are 18 people on each XR5 flight, I figure at least 6 of them should be EVA at any given time during assembly). Sadly, I had to remove the URMS when I integrated the space station and didn't put it back before I took the screen captures.

There is currently over 1 MW of solar array power, and 8 MW of nuclear power. There are still 2.5 trusses of solar arrays yet to build and there may be something like 15MW of nuclear power when it's all done. We'll see how it turns out.

I'm designing this station as I go. I plan out 8-10 missions, then fly them, then plan out the next batch of missions and so on. This is the job I dreamed I would have when I grew up, so I'm having a blast getting to live it out.

I'll post more pictures at Initial Repair, Refuel, and Construction Capability (IRRCC) and finally when I get it Initial Construction Complete (ICC). I have ideas about possibly adding 4 more habitation wheels and even more docking areas (for a total of 6 docking areas) before this thing is done... but then that's probably months in the future if not years.

Although the Elapsed Mission time on the XR5 says only ~22 days have elapsed since my first launch, it's taken me nearly 30 days to fly all the missions. Of course, I'm not doing all the EVAs manually so that saves a lot of time. And reloading at Brighton Beach is also pretty quick.

And now for the screen captures....
 

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Oh my... :OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

You've changed the meaning of monster-sizes. The Mighty Probe must feel uncomfortable with such neighbours

If I could estimate the stress those trusses are suffering I'd go mad :thumbup:
 
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