I'm a new user to Orbiter and so far have had only a little experience with, in particular, the Shuttle and some of its features.
I'm attempting to use Orbiter for an education demonstration to develop a scenario for space debris removal whereby a spacecraft could chase/approach some 'debris' or an inoperative craft, collect it and then de-orbit. This is to make a challenge for school/college students to attempt to understand how debris removal might work.
So far the easiest case would potentially use a robot arm to grapple to craft and collect it within a payload bay, for which something like the Shuttle and robot arm could be adapted relatively easily (the Hubble retrieve case is in the base Orbiter system, but I've no experience so far with Orbiter editor so don't know how easily this would be to manipulate into what I need). Alternative solutions could be to chase the debris and 'swallow' it using the jaws of the payload bay, or some sort of tractor beam to attract the debris into the bay.
Does anything like this exist on the Orbiter forums (I did some searching, but didn't come across anything), or similar scenarios that could be adapted?
I'm attempting to use Orbiter for an education demonstration to develop a scenario for space debris removal whereby a spacecraft could chase/approach some 'debris' or an inoperative craft, collect it and then de-orbit. This is to make a challenge for school/college students to attempt to understand how debris removal might work.
So far the easiest case would potentially use a robot arm to grapple to craft and collect it within a payload bay, for which something like the Shuttle and robot arm could be adapted relatively easily (the Hubble retrieve case is in the base Orbiter system, but I've no experience so far with Orbiter editor so don't know how easily this would be to manipulate into what I need). Alternative solutions could be to chase the debris and 'swallow' it using the jaws of the payload bay, or some sort of tractor beam to attract the debris into the bay.
Does anything like this exist on the Orbiter forums (I did some searching, but didn't come across anything), or similar scenarios that could be adapted?