Recent content by Fabri91

Jebediah Kerman seems to have enjoyed his ride to space:

Speaking of modules - a new groundbreaking one has been announced by Italian developer IndiaFoxtEcho:

Apparently the shockwave of the Tonga volcano has been detected by a barometer at a nearby meteorological center:

The thing is actually in space and mostly deployed! :hailprobe:

It's a library for add-ons for various flight simulators, at avsim.com

Ya'll aren't going to ship one to the Russians. Right? 🧐 Also, jokes aside, part of the offer was the local final assembly of 2-3 examples.

Must have been a real code brown moment - link to press release.

For some reason volumetric clouds seem to be in the process of being implemented in a lot of sims/flying games recently - just MSFS2020, DCS and Star Citizen all within a year.

A colleague spent a day looking for a certain type of industrial main power switch (the rotating red-yellow thing seen on electrical cabinets) - this is the type of component that is normally really easily found. EDIT: I forgot to add - in the end no switch could be found and we ended up...

Be that as it may, the launch of JWST will be a nail-biter.

Barring feature recognition against a known map, I'm not sure what the options are. This both for position determination and attitude determination near the surface without using stars. This also means that no "cheap" quadcopter which relies on a magnetometer and GPS would be able to fly...

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one! :hailprobe:

Also, keep in mind that the actual silicon "active" part usually is much smaller than the external heatspreader used on most desktop CPUs. :)

The suggestion by @Pioneer to just use the current ISS model isn't bad, I think. Especially as a placeholder.