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I assume the same would hold true for trying to observe a lunar eclipse from the Moon? (I'll be sleeping through the actual one in a couple hours, but it got me thinkin...)

That seems to be coming from Orbiter if I save the .scn in-sim. Popped up in another .scn too, but doesn't seem to be causing any trouble there. Rotation still not right here. Tried 1 & -1 in both the first & second positions of the last 3 digits, it just rotates the dome around the vertical...

Thank you, that worked nicely. Sigh. Just when I think I'm getting it figured out. I'm trying to get that "Dome1" to sit "flat" on the stage, just rotate it 90* about the Z axis, and the trig has me stymied again. Lil' help please? :hailprobe: Dome1:BCP01 STATUS Orbiting Earth RPOS...

OK, nevermind about the fairings, figured out how to get it to work like I wanted, disgustingly easy too with how I had it set up. :facepalm: So my last problem, if you please, is that the autopilot seems to have a mind of its own now. No matter what I set the launch azimuth to, whether in the...

I'm trying that now, but not sure how to make it work right. My payloads are strapped to both sides of the Energia core. So I need pairs of fairing to jettison in the same direction. ie, two to the "left," two to the "right," as opposed to "left, right, up and down" like a normal 4-part...

What's the proper syntax for the PRPLEVEL call? If I set up fairings as "stages," parallel burn to the Energia-M, JETT_ON_EMPTy 0, will they then separate along with it?

Thank youuuu! Sorry, math was never one of my strong points... if you need literary analysys & copy editing of a manual, or mechanical work on an actualrocket,that I can help you with.:blush: Almost finished here... now that the boosters are in the right place, I'd like to get them to...

Never did take trig :facepalm: So, if the first booster is in the right place at 4 0 1, what should it's rotation #'s be, and what should be the #'s of the next booster?

OK... making slow progress, bear with me here.. (no one told me there was algebra involved in this! I want my money back!) So the first string of 3 digits is the position, and the second string of 3 in the same line is the rotation, yes? How does the rotation part of it work? I tried setting...

Ah so. I thot it was a little fishy that 2/3rds of a Proton could put a fully fueled 2nd stage in orbit. Like the man said, I think I'm gonna need a bigger rocket :rofl: Which brings me to my next question :hail: Below is a short snippit of .scn I'm trying to figure out how to make a nice...

Yup sure did. Just tried a couple more times, can't even get half way to orbital speed. Used to make it with fuel to spare. The "transstage" is nothing but a Proton second stage with a docking port & bigger RCS thursters. BEGIN_DESC END_DESC BEGIN_ENVIRONMENT System Sol Date MJD...

Well I did a quick test with the Transstage stack, and the docking port works (more or less :blink:), but something's not right, cuz now it can't even get close to orbit, whereas before it got there with fuel to spate?

Drat, Ok thanx. Actually I was going for the opposite effect, I wanted UCGO capability but not UMMU :facepalm:

Hi, I'm trying to get this to work with a Velco Proton 3rd stage, and I get nothing. Could it be related to this fellow's question?

GETDOCKINGPORTS not workin' Hi all, first time post here, hope this is the right thread to drop this one... Was really hoping I could figure this out without the old "Post on a new forum & wait for someone smarter than myself to come along" routine, but so be it. Having a bugger of a time...