Recent content by Rossco

THANKS! 4th Rock, I know ive done good when someone builds and add-on for my add-on! thanks muchly. :hello: Sorry the vehicle only points upwards. I cant rightly remember the reason but basically i tried to make them with a hover only but I had problems getting them to stack properly with...

Mandella, a TailSitter is not really defined, but in the LOLA code different routes are taken depending on different attributes of the craft. If a craft has a MAIN engine but not a HOVER engine, its effectively a tail sitter. If a craft has a HOVER engine (irrespective of if it also has a MAIN...

This is a minor update to the 2010 version of LOLAMFD. I believe it fixes the TAIL SITTER bug where tail sitters could not land or do other manouvers. I have this marked it as BETA and ask other Orbinauts familiar with LOLA to please test it on TAIL SITTERS and other hover craft. Please provide...

I think i have a fix for Lola. I have to do a bit more testing and code cleanup and figure out the project dependency dll's but so far I can get my 25 ton tail sitter down on the moon ok, whereas with the current Lola 2010 version it does the "abort" trick straight after entering approach phase...

Now if you want something BIG on your Saturn V This is the one i'd like to do, http://www.thespacereview.com/article/175/1 100 Megatons on a Saturn V and all in a good cause :thumbup:... why couldn't my uni classes be as interesting as these guys!!! Here's a field trip to cape canaveral...

Mandella, saw you have the c++ code for your LOLA add-on version as part of the zip. By any chance could you tell me which version of Visual Studio you made this under and also do you have a Visual Studio project file or something for this dev project? My new Beyond Apollo relies heavily on LOLA...

What if Apollo didnt end in 1972? What if Apollo had put a base on the moon as originally planned in the mid to late 60s? With around the same cost as the development of the Space Shuttle and a second Saturn V production run NASA could have put an early lunar base and and advanced base in place...

cslevine good to hear. You should get the super 8 converted to digital of some sort and post on youtube for the record. There are some fantasic holiday movies from coca beach of a family who went there in 1971 and it has actual film of the apollo 15 launch from an interesting perspective.

Well actually it did. The space race basically ran from Sputnik in 1957 till the early 70s. The success of Apollo and the failure of the N1 pretty much sealed the conclusion. The Soviets had successes at the start, the Americans had runaway success at the end. Post 72 there was still a minor...

ASTP -Apollo Soyuz Test Project 1975 The first international mission that marked the end of the space race and the end of the Apollo Program. A docking module was carried into orbit on the Saturn 1B and used by an Apollo CSM to dock with a Soyuz 19. A triumph of superpower cooperation it...

Thanks guys but need a velcro soyuz. Im building the entire ASTP (Apollo Soyuz 75) missions for Amso. I have built the docking adaptor mesh (my first mesh im very proud of it, even if the docking aim points arnt perfect). On the soyuz side i have built another mesh to strap to the front of soyuz...

Folks, before i loose anymore hair looking, is there a Velcro Soyuz launcher out there? Ive looked high and low in orbiter hangar and cant find one. I need a Soyuz Launcher that is velcro based so i can do some wierd stuff with payloads (i.e. use PAYATCH). If it can fit in with the LC1 pad as...

Notebook.... I think the following is the Woomera 6C silo! 31° 4'58.31"S 136°26'37.19"E If you compare to the picture at : http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/Notebook_04/Blue%20Streak/File0002-1.jpg this seems to line up. The google earth image shows the round hole (rotate GE so that...

Thanks for the feedback guys! WOAH - never knew about a site 6C silo at woomera. 6A and 6B were the over the cliff ELDO launch sites. B was never completed but was fairly advanced, A was finished and used quite a few times for ELDO and the british orbital shots. 6C i will have to research. Im...

Cape York Space Port Cape York Space Port was a space base that was a possible candidate for development in the late 80s and 90s. It went through many iterations but in the end, nothing came of it. It was situated in north easter australia and offered both polar and equatorial launches, close...