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Director of Manned Spaceflight
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Size comparison to Apollo:
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Awesome, where on the Atlantic?Saying "hi" from vacations on the Atlantic Coast, I'll be back for Tuesday
*bumps*
I have to think a bit more on how the satellites are fixed to the dispenser. Maybe a system of rails ? :hmm: I have to position the satellites so that the dishes are pointing outwards, too. Maybe small wheels on the "corners" of the sats, and rails fixed on the dispenser. It could work.
Don't worry, I guessed. I've still a lot to do on the launcher anyway, when finished and the bugs tracked down it will be easier to focus on the CST-100.Sorry I haven't been here, school has single handedly taken over my life, havent had much time to do anything.
int myVessel::clbkConsumeBufferedKey (DWORD key, bool down, char *kstate)
{
if (!down) return 0; // only process keydown events
if (KEYMOD_SHIFT (kstate) || KEYMOD_CONTROL (kstate)) {
} else { // unmodified keys
switch (key) {
...
It looks like the Shift-O key (used for the orbit MFD) is intercepted and processed as an unmodified O key. This can be avoided by ignoring the Shift and Control keys:
The other comment is that the silver interstage ribbed mesh would probably look good enough with a smooth mesh and a texture from a few meters away. This would save some polys on the model and avoid the flickering effect when zooming out. This is certainly just a personal oppinion.
This just a little thing that I have noticed on the Centaur: You have the RCS hydrazine bottles covered in a blue fabric, while they're supposed to be black enclosed by a white net. Also notable is the thermal shield on the actual turbopumps of the RL-10.
Those blue things are just "Remove Before Flight" covers. The bottles have always been black. If you take a closer look, you can see a red streamer attached to cover which even says "REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT".Yeah actually this is a "problem" specific to the Centaur-DEC. As it never flew, I wasn't able to find any actual photograph or detailed 3D render of it. So my reference model was the Centaur III (I have a high res picture of it) :
AFAIK the blue spheres are Helium pressurization tanks. According to ULA manual, their number can vary depending of the number of restarts needed (mass savings). On my version the hydrazine tanks are supposed to be the white bottles, and also here you should be able to choose between one or two bottles in the final version, as ULA offers that possibility (I calculated the volume so that it matches with the figures). There is, inevitably, a part of speculation there. My idea is, since the Centaur III worked, a similar layout can't be bad.
The SEC version of the Centaur is still in quite early progress, but it will be as close as possible from the photographs.
The RCS hydrazine bottles have always been black.
I came across it during my research into the Shuttle/Centaur. Here's a photo of the New Horizons Centaur upper stage showing the bottles with no RBF covers on them:Where did you got that info ? That's the kind of things I've been unable to find.