Precession MFD (Sep.8, 2011, build 27) by wishbone
CHANGES: fixed the vector axis swapping bug, added instant burn optimization.
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Would you like to arrive to the rendezvous with another vessel more accurately than with TransX and at a given range along the R-bar?
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Have you ever wanted to set up a perfect Sun-synchronous orbit, or a Molniya-type HEO that would not suffer from perigee rotation?
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Do you plan to sail away on solar pressure?
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Have you wondered how to handle a craft with center-of-gravity shift or a stack of vessels?
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Do you want to program attitude changes days and weeks in advance?
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Are you going to dock "by the numbers"?
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Do you want to know what surface features are within reach from your chosen landing site?
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Are you interested in Earth's magnetic field or the heat loads of your craft?
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Do you want to see aerodynamic coefficients of a vessel?
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Are you planning to take a nap and would like to be woken up by the MCC in time for the next burn?
If yes, this is the MFD for you.
Acknowledgements:Martin Schweiger for something (Orbiter) to plug this MFD in. http://www.orbiter-forum.com dwellers for suggestions.BrianJ for SolarSailEx add-on, frame conversion routine, and bits and pieces of code I have not yet mastered.NASA World Wind team for quaternion handling code.Ajaja for the code of Lagrangian Points MFD (yet to be integrated properly), and introducing to the world of SPICE. SPICE team at CalTech and JPL.Orb for helping out with the stars.Chris Knestrick for code from Attitude MFD 3.2 (maintained and updated by Tim Blaxland).
Kepler Orbital Simulation Toolkit 0.75 authors (C J Plooy and Tim Blaxland).Sergey Bochkanov for the AlgLib maths library.jedidia for EPP from Orbiter Galaxy far far away.Michel Berkelaar, Jeroen Dirks, Kjell Eikland and Peter Notebaert for the lpSolve 5.5 library.Roy Vegard Ovesen, Dr.Michael E.Lisano, II, G.Vulpetti, Peter H. Zipfel, Ken Shoemake,Susan McMillan, Ronald J. Boain, James R. Wertz, Andreas Hörstemeier and Jan Meeus, igel, Kenneth Sutton, R.A. Graves, M.E.Tauber, JAT team, SSU developers.All errors are mine. The code (insofar as it is written by me and not anybody else) is public, see notes attached to code snippets for extra limitations. This is work in progress, so some things may not always go as planned. Formulas are common knowledgeâ¦