Orbiter Screenshot Thread

[K_Jameson]

 

[Snax]

Hi guys, it's been a while.
i had bit of a free time and seriously started to learn the AGC and the capsule layout for NASSP.
And I finally managed to launch a Saturn V rocket (here Apollo 7) with the 4 hours long pre-flight preparations and MCC.

I start to enjoy its complexity, even if I still don't fully understand what I'm clicking in the capsule (pressurisation, voltage, bus stuff etc).

Fly safe !

 

[DaveS]

Endeavour ready to grapple the HST for the first Service Mission in December 1993:

 

[DaveS]

Endeavour ready to grapple the HST for the first Service Mission in December 1993:

And here's the obligatory follow up showing HST firmly grappled by the RMS as seen from the "D" payload bay camera:

 

[1987VCRProductions]

Decided to mess around more with old add ons and Multistage2015 and Spacecraft4. I discovered the joy of the Surveyor missions.

Often what I have to do with these is go in and overhaul the old .ini files, as the parameters are sometimes wrong and require the correct ones to be substituted. In the case of Surveyor, some of the vehicle masses were off and the thrusts of the lander engines and the retro rocket were reversed.

 

[1987VCRProductions]

Zond 5, September 1968.

This is the first time I've flown this particular mission, I had to re-adapt this add on to use version 2.2 of Thorton's Proton Launcher in order to launch it. It's a shame that Zond never carried a human crew, though the hardware to pull off such a mission still exists (the Proton launch vehicle is still operational as of this post and the Zond was just a modified Soyuz).

 

[clipper]

Getting into LEO with USS Debauchery.

 

[N_Molson]

This is the first time I've flown this particular mission, I had to re-adapt this add on to use version 2.2 of Thorton's Proton Launcher in order to launch it. It's a shame that Zond never carried a human crew, though the hardware to pull off such a mission still exists (the Proton launch vehicle is still operational as of this post and the Zond was just a modified Soyuz).

If you have the money, you can fund such mission (and have a seat of course). Apply here :

https://spaceadventures.com/experiences/circumlunar-mission/

 

[clipper]

Speaking of the moon, I decided to try a polar orbit recently. I wasn't disappointed with the view to say the least.

 

[K_Jameson]

An early depiction of the Galileo spacecraft with the Centaur G-Prime stage, and my Galileo II in a similar fashion with the HES-5 stage.

 

[fred18]

An early depiction of the Galileo spacecraft with the Centaur G-Prime stage, and my Galileo II in a similar fashion with the HES-5 stage.

the probe looks extraordinary!!!

 

[K_Jameson]

:tiphat:

 

[K_Jameson]

From my archives, the Starfighter, the second Sagitta-class automatic spaceplane. The military one, complete with a new vehicle patch and the NATO flag.

 

[clipper]

A different kind of Earthrise

 

[4throck]

Decided to mess around more with old add ons and Multistage2015 and Spacecraft4....

Great! Please think about sharing the updated configs someday.

 

[K_Jameson]

A Jarvis M rocket climbs into the sky.

 

[Snax]

Still learning the beast, Apollo 7 is dumping the LOX

 

[dgatsoulis]

Big day at Mojave Spaceport today.

Big Pete is getting ready to tow the G42-200 Starliner for her maiden voyage.

Getting to the runway.

Lined up with the runway.

Checking control surfaces.

View from cockpit

Full thrust!

Gear up, turning to launch heading.

Altitude 10 km, vehicle is supersonic. Canards retracted, visor extended.

Mach 2.0 at 20 km alt. RAMCASTER ignition, main engines shut down.

Mach 5 at 35 km alt. Wings at "waverider" position". RAMCASTER setting "HI".

Riding the RAMCASTER "wave" all the way to T3.

T3. RAMCASTER shutdown and doors closed. Switched to rocket engines.

Welcome to LEO. Visor retracted to enjoy the view.

Flying the G42 in Orbiter 2016 was the most fun Orbiter experience I've had in a while.

Stay tuned for instructions to port the G42 in Orbiter 2016.

-----------------EDIT----------------
Instructions to get the G42-200 in Orbiter2016 posted here.

 

[4throck]

Some of the stuff I'm working on (with others - Apollo Collaborative) .

Apollo 18

Skylab B

 

[DaveS]

Columbia on-orbit showing off the Spacelab Double Module as configured for the United States Microgravity Laboratory-2(USML-2) mission. Note the half-open left PLBD, it was left in this configuration for the duration of the mission to provide MMOD protection as it was facing the ram direction in this gravity gradient attitude.