Recent content by pandadude

I did my first trip to Mars about 6 months after I installed Orbiter. That's just because I was doing other stuff first, involving LEO's and Moon landings. The first time I tried going to Mars I got there successfully and actually found it quite easy using the Go Play In Space tutorial for...

There is a button on the lower panel to move fuel from main engines to RCS. Also if you landed on the runway, how would RCS fuel help you land at a lower vertical speed? Doesn't RCS work less at lower altitudes and elevon work more effectively?

I agree. It is interesting to look at all the inaccuracies, but at the end of the day, they obviously didn't set out to create a realistic movie, and that's a good thing IMO. Armageddon isn't the type of film that would have benefitted from being ultra-realistic. It probably wouldn't have been...

And also double the price of the game if you're planning on buying it in Australia!

Download Go Play In Space It isn't a video, but it is a very useful tutorial with pictures. Go to the chapter Dancing in the Dark and follow the instructions.

Ah OK my mistake. I shall have to make the necessary changes to my scenarios!

Ah OK. I thought I was missing something simple, and I was!

Yea I changed my ISS orbit to 51.6. That way, when I launch on a 90degree heading from KSC, I'm pretty much perfectly aligned with the ISS. I didn't do that to make it easier, I just wanted it to be more realistic. I can rendezvous with pretty much anything in orbit by now (I think, although the...

I've read a few times that one of the hazards of space flight and EVA's is collision with space debris. Things that I have read say it is dangerous due to the high speeds required for orbital velocity. I don't understand why it is such a danger though. If you're in orbit, aren't you also...

I don't know about how it's done in real life, but in my Orbiter, if I launch to the ISS and launch on a heading of 90degrees, RInc is pretty much zero when I reach orbit. I think I may have changed the ISS' inclination for all my scenarios though....what is the ISS' inclination by default...

Basically, take off on a 90degree heading when the ISS' orbit is over you. Once you have achieved oribt, use Align MFD to align your plane with that of the ISS and to reduce relative inclination to zero. Once you've done this, sync your orbits so that in a few orbits time, you and the ISS are at...

Sorry to interrupt here but this just ocurred to me. Can you change the Sol config file to edit the Sun's mass? Does that affect how things work in Orbiter? As in, will it really start pulling the planets towards the Sun? Is Orbiter that advanced!? I have to try this :D P.S. Has anyone else done...

Use map MFD. When the ISS' orbit goes over your launch site, that's when you launch. You could also open up Align MFD, target the ISS and wait until Relative Inclination is at a minimum. Alternatively, you could use the launch heading MFD (is that its name, I can't remember?).

Yes Earth to Moon is relatively easy. Transfer MFD is very simple to use and you basically just burn retrogade when near the Moon to enter into a Lunar Orbit. Once there, landing it fairly easy, but I find it quite difficult balancing my rate of decent and slowing down at the same time. It's...

I say charge all the media reports with murder! That's why she killed herself, because the media told her there was a high chance of dying. I still don't see her logic though...suicide she was guaranteed death, LHC (if she believed the media), she MAY have died. Surely as scared as she was, she...