OHM X-37 and The Prince of Darkness 02

[francisdrake]

francisdrake submitted a new addon:

X-37 and The Prince of Darkness - The X-37 space plane and missions to a near-Earth asteroid

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The Prince of Darkness is coming! The comet ‘Anduru’ came from deep space into the Solar system. After shedding speed in swing-by maneuvers around the major planets, it ended up in a highly elliptical orbit around Earth. An X-37 space plane is sent to investigate the suspicious comet.

The story is based on the book...

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[francisdrake]

Key Commands​

B … Airbrake
C … Clear bullets (within an Orbiter session)
E … Camera view cycle
G … Gear
J … Jettison payload
Ctrl-J … Jettison service module
K … Open / close payload bay doors
S … Deploy / retract solar panels
U … Deploy / retract gun
Space … Fire gun

 

[BrianJ]

"Rendezvous at T plus two hours..and.....just what is that??"

 

[francisdrake]

Two hours is a pretty good time for a rendezvous!
The Prince of Darkness is awaiting you ...

 

[Boxx]

"Rendezvous at T plus two hours..and.....just what is that??"

spoiler alert

 

[francisdrake]

A screenshot story:




Fairing separation.


Approaching comet Anduru.


Close investigation.


Return to Earth, flying inverted into the sunrise.


On final into Edwards AFB.


Touchdown!

 

[francisdrake]

francisdrake updated X-37 and The Prince of Darkness with a new update entry:

Orbiter 2024 compatible

Modified the spring stiffness and damping of the touchdown points, to make it Orbiter 2024 compatible.

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[gamer19]

thank you
however, since I try to implement in both 2016 and 2024 version - my 2016 version should be ok since I have all the Falcons and all the additional files this mod may need
but in 2024 they can't be in there since it's just a pure vanilla game version
I don't see it's written somewhere mod requirements ?
if they are somewhere I sincerely apologize

edit:
- in 2024 only two are working (no surprise since there's no Falcon 9 etc)
X-37 3-Finals on KSC and X-37 Finals on Edwards

- in 2016 also only two works (this is a bit of surprise since I believe I have it all)
X-37 3-Finals on KSC and X-37 Payload Test - strangely Edwards scenario crashes here, with this error code:

000000.000: Module Earth.dll ............. [Build 160828, API 160828]
000000.000: Module EarthAtmJ71G.dll ...... [Build 160828, API 160828]
VSOP87(B) Earth: Precision 1e-008, Terms 2564/2564
============================ ERROR: ===========================
Parse error from base definition file for Cape Canaveral: Block: TEXn: expected 3 values (*char, scalar, scalar)
[BaseObject:: ParseError | .\Baseobj.cpp | 184]
===============================================================
============================ ERROR: ===========================
Parse error from base definition file for Cape Canaveral: Block: TEXn: expected 3 values (*char, scalar, scalar)
[BaseObject:: ParseError | .\Baseobj.cpp | 184]
===============================================================
000000.000: BaseObject: Parse error 2
000000.000: Module Moon.dll .............. [Build 160828, API 160828]
ELP82: Precision 1e-005, Terms 116/829

 

[francisdrake]

Hi, for the launch scenarios the FalconHeavy is required.
I mentioned that in the doc and the scenario descriptions, but maybe should state that more prominent.

On the parse error of the Cape Canaveral base I cannot say much, sorry.

 

[Voyager_VI]

It was the Falcon Heavy LC 39 pad throwing error, installed BrianJ update and works perfect.

Cool mission!