Recent content by boogabooga

Had another idea: Perhaps allow the ballonet to over-pressurize the envelope a bit past 500 bar to allow an easier descent. That would be useful when flying with positive buoyancy.

Also, Helium would not work on Jupiter/Saturn, but Hydrogen would to an extent because the atmospheres are a He/H mix and thus slightly denser than pure hydrogen. But the lifting power would not be very good. Don't ask me how to get an airship into the atmosphere of Jupiter, though. :LOL...

What lifting gas is being used? It would be cool if the user could choose between hydrogen, helium, etc. or even vacuum, if your model supports it. Vacuum airships might work on Mars, assuming that the envelope shape could be maintained by rigid support, since the surface pressure is only...

Let's make sure that we don't make perfect the enemy of excellent. I would suggest that you release as it is under Orbiter 2016 compatibility and upgrade later.

GravityAssistMFD in post 42 was looking to be a very powerful tool, and yet it's another case of being buried in a nearly decade-old thread instead of the download section where it belongs. The github link still works, and the module is working fine for me in Orbiter 2010 (I haven't tried it yet...

Feel free to include any of my spreadsheets, if that helps anyone.

Hi.

This is a very cool add-on that deserves to be in the addon section, not lost in this obscure six year old thread.

Question: What is the resolution of the textures that actually come with with Orbiter2024/2016 and what resolution comes in the high-res texture packs?

Crazy universe that we both came back at the exact same time... Seems like most of the 2010s regulars are gone now. I suspect that the ratio of work-to-fun has-by necessity- gone up for everybody in the last few years.

Greetings. It's been a few years. Came to check out Orbiter2024 and realized that I was one post away from 3000. ;) Honestly, I have little time to play Orbiter these days, and less so to talk about it with people on the internet. I wish everyone well, though. -boog

So, it's July 2020 and this has recently launched. I didn't see it mentioned elsewhere on OF. Here is some commentary:

Just poke around this website: https://celestrak.com/ It should be a lot of help.

Ok, so the Horizons solution comes out to MPC Database Asteroid Viewer solution (within about 1400 km), only when the Epoch correction is applied as I suggest above. So heads up that there is an error that needs to be corrected. I'm okay with the 1400 km error, given that this program is only...

So, I was using this program to try to simulate tomorrow's "close" pass of NEA 2002 NN4 in Orbiter 2010 and Celestia. In Celestia everything seemed to come out okay, but in Orbiter the asteroid was nowhere near where it was supposed to be. So, I think that I traced the problem as follows: I'm...