Recent content by tfr001

Saw it! Well, we saw it (+ Shuttle) pass over about 7:45 EDT tonight. The Sun had just set, so it was very bright!

You can see many of those on YouTube, including one of the cameras looking down into the oxidizer(?) tank. According to the flight manuals, they had cameras all over the thing - I wonder where all the video went? Never recorded maybe?

If anyone's interested, I ocr'd one of the data tables out of the NASA trajectory report and put it in an Excel file. You get altitude, downrange distance, velocity and acceleration of the Saturn 5 from launch to injection into orbit, all 3 stages... this so I could compare it to some...

Thanks for the replies, all! No fancy graphics card either. The video comes off the back of the motherboard. So I guess I'll look into that... recommendations? (besides 64MB NVidea card - thanks Tommy!)

Computer is: 1.3 gig Celeron 40 gig harddrive 512 mb ram mouse & kb that's about it... not even a joystick!

Hi All, I found some of the video you guys have been producing with Orbiter over on Youtube, so I thought I'd check it out. I'll have to get it up on my computer at some point. Might have to upgrade the hardware, I'm not currently a gamer. What do you need to add to a basic PC? I'm...

This is maybe the best source of orbital equations I've found online, although it's in PDF format. You might have to do some work figuring out what all of their symbols stand for and how they relate to your particular problem. The part you want starts at page 125...

Saturn 5 IGM Actually, the Saturn 5 IGM was something like your #4, and only used on second and third stage burns. First stage *was* one of those simple tip-it-over-at-some-linear-rate things, designed to minimize aerodynamic forces. See...