Recent content by DaveS

If you could explain this, please do.

No, that would be these: https://www.orbiter-forum.com/threads/new-global-textures-and-night-lights-level-11-version.43597/ And for the Cape textures, it would be Map 1.

Seems like a tile or two didn't get masked off properly for transparency. It's just off the coast, east of Launch Complex 39B.

IIRC from way back, it was a hack, more of trial run thay never worked properly and messed with the flight models in a non realistic way. This is similar to another removed feature that Orbiter used have back in the day, which was actual lens glare whenever tje Sun was in the FOV. It was...

Currently the atmospheric winds implementation is very flawed and doesn't work right. If there's no desire to implement a proper simulation of them, then they along with the checkbox for them in the Launchpad should be removed entirely. GitHub ticket link...

Seeing as that you're part of the flight crew in SSV, you wouldn't be able to hear the PAO loop as it is transmitted on its own frequency, separate from KSC OIS (Operational Intercommunications System) channel 212 and the A/Gs that the crew is tied into. Same reason why we as the audience...

This is a thread to discuss the implementation of new and more improved joystick/gamepad support in Orbiter as the current one is old and doesn't support newer and more advanced units such as the X-52 HOTAS. GitHub ticket link: https://github.com/orbitersim/orbiter/issues/541

When is improvements to GNC and APU/hydraulic systems planned for? Would like to have a fully working ADI and given that the APU/hydraulic system is by far the oldest system in SSV (it dates back to the original Space Shuttle Deluxe in 2007) I think it needs some attention.

Plenty of those ideas through out the 80's and 90's. Only real success was McDonnell Douglas's DC-X:

Maybe profit was never the reason, but the same schedule pressure was certainly there. Apollo 1, STS-51L and STS-107, they all had serious schedule pressure pushing them. Apollo 1 had the political pressure of beating the Soviets and landing on the Moon before the end of the decade. STS-51L was...

Noted major issue with these textures: They remove the high resolution tiles around the Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center area. Screenshot provided.

Better quality and a second vantage point:

Customer, Amazon. Amazon LEO is Amazon's answer to SpaceX's Starlink satellite service.

Video courtesy of Spaceflightnow.com:

Well, New Glenn exploded on the pad tonight during the planned hot fire test. After an aborted attempt 2 hours earlier, the 7 BE-4 engines of the first stage (GS-1) ignited at 9 pm EDT (0100 UTC May 29) which was followed by the vehicle exploding, seeming taking its Transporter/Erector with it.