Recent content by MajorTom

^^ What he said.

<< Catching up on my reading after having been away from the forum for months >> Yikes! If someone hasn't beaten me and streb2001 to it, methinks it's time to add some new scenarios and vehicles to the Chinese Manned Space Program add-on. Am contacting him now...

That was it, thanks! I actually tried to download 1.21 by typing it in manually but it wasn't there the other day. I must have visited at just the wrong time. However, today I was able to download 1.21. :cheers:

Hello ACSoft, I just tried to download AMSO 1.20 from your site, but the zipfile did not appear to be there. Did you take it down? Thank you- MT

Keep it up! As a proud user of Multistage, I know you can go surprisingly far with it, even simulating an escape tower. It's not a cop-out to use multistage2.dll. Keeps you focused on the rocket design, so you don't have to learn c++ coding alongside the meshing, texturing, scenario design...

Wonderful info and photos in this thread. Thanks all!

I can see your images. Here's a link to a lot more detail on various Soyuz panels: http://suzymchale.com/ruspace/soyconsole.html

Scenario for launch of Soyuz TMA-20, on December 15, 2010, 19:10 UT.  Hopefully the actual launch will go as scheduled.  It would be a very nice night launch. The scenario uses the TLE (orbital info) for the ISS for December 15. Required Add-Ons: Thorton's ISS v3.2 or higher...

Thank you. I do see the value of launching a bit before the target plane passes overhead, but not TOO long before, or you have to spend an unacceptably high amount of soyuz fuel in aligning the planes. The 19:09 launch time just seems less than optimal, if we assume the TLE gave the correct...

Foam core...do you mean foam core fiberglass? That's how many boats are made...

TLE Accuracy question Hi All, To design a scenario for Soyuz TMA 20 (sched launch time Dec 15, 2010, 19:09 GMT), I looked up the TLE for the ISS from this NASA site: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP/orbit/ISS/SVPOST.html The TLE for Dec 15, epoch...

Great photo...I'm sort of interested in doing a Soyuz simpit myself. I've been thinking lately of materials to use to build the "shell" of the SA. Perhaps Fiberglas over a wooden frame?? For the Russian instruments and such, figure out the cyrillic alphabet, then type in the Russian words into...

Thorton, I can't thank you and igel enough for your fabulous Soyuz/ISS series add ons. These are the add-ons I've been waiting for, for years. I'm a big Soyuz fan, and the more I use your add ons the more impressed I am. THANK YOU!!! :hailprobe:

Well then, I don't feel bad. I went all the way to Florida last week, arriving just as they announced they were moving the mission to Tuesday and maybe Wednesday--I had planned to return Wednesday. So I extended my return by one day. Scrubbed to Thursday. Heavy rains that morning as I left...

Very nice job, and timely, too: last I heard, there's a Delta IV heavy taking off this Monday from Cape Canaveral.