Recent content by laukejas

Thank you. Sorry for late reply, I was away from internet connection for a while, couldn't write back sooner. Thank you for extensive information. I'll try my luck in jpl website, but please send that spk, just in case.

Arrowstar, you wrote this program? Then maybe you can help me out, please? First of all, I can't find Sedna spice files anywhere on NASA ftp. Where are they?

Sorry, but could you be a little more helpful? I know how to do that - but this tool can't even find the Grand Tour route of Voyagers. Also, it doesn't have a lot of planets, like Sedna (and they aren't available for download in links provided by help reference)

I have this one - how do you use it for slingshots?

Hi all, I'm over my head again. I want to plan some slingshots and perform them in Orbiter, but apart from using already known launch trajectories (those that NASA performed), I can't wrap my mind around the method to find possible routes. I just watched BBC documentary on Voyager trips, and it...

I have a better idea. What if reel would spin up BEFORE shooting the harpoon, leaving some considerable amount of "loose" tether, then harpoon shoots, using up that tether, and reel still accelerates, so by the time harpoon digs into asteroid, reel is spinning at the needed velocity to tighten...

Alright. But the forces depend on the size of the reel, right? At first, I thought of an internal reel. That limits its size. How about an external reel, which can be made much larger? This is crude illustration of what I have in mind. Reel is surround the probe, fixed on several beams which...

Hello all, The most crazy idea popped into my mind as I was reading on various proposed NASA methods to send probes to asteroids and comets with very different orbits than Earth, making these kind of journeys extremely dV expensive, if probe were to match it's orbit with the target asteroid...

Extremely helpful, thank you. Would have never thought of that myself.

Yes, I do use it! How to fix this bug until it is fixed in the Orbiter Sound by developer?

Hello all, I recently began having this problem: when I open scenario - any scenario where focus is on orbiting vessel, I get very low fps, everything lags, and so on. But if I change focus to some ground object on Earth - or simply to some base camera - fps rises again. Then I can switch focus...

Hi, Sorry for digging out the old thread, but I wanted to make a contribution - maybe someone else might need that joystick emulator. I tried several back in the days when I needed to control FS2004 with mouse, and the only one which worked well was PPMouse. Here is download link...

I have no Orulex, sir. Too laggy for my system, too bugged also. Here goes the log: **** Orbiter.log Build Aug 30 2010 [v.100830] Timer precision: 4.66611e-007 sec Found 1 joystick(s) Devices enumerated: 6 Devices accepted: 5 ==> RGB Emulation ==> Direct3D HAL ==> Direct3D T&L HAL ==> Direct3D...

I was trying out the Deep Space Communications Satellite from Orbiter Hangar. It was time acceleration, not date edit.

No. Everything moves, planets rotate and orbit, EVERYTHING moves except the vessel - it freezes in one place, just like I would press "pause". Planet is rotating below, orbiting around the sun - and the vessel just stays in one spot, until I lower time acceleration - then it starts orbiting...