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Really glad to see so many "first time I've commented in years" post. Hopefully, Orbiter going open source can attract more people to the best space sim once again!

This rendezvous feels pretty "Kerbal" compared to other rendezvous we've seen.

Yes, that's a very good idea. Something like CKAN for KSP. That being said, I still feel sound should be included with the base package. dbeachy1's suggestion with XR2Sound 2.0 is a good one.

I agree that it is difficult to quantify what is essential and what's not. I feel like sound is probably the one thing most of us can agree on is pretty essential. But I can understand the issue regarding licensing.

Suggestion from a pure user perspective: It can be pretty difficult to recommend Orbiter to newbies when a lot of the essential addons (Orbiter Sound, InterplanetaryMFD, SpaceX addons) are not included in the base package. Maybe, once the developers are able to update the addons to Orbiter...

I doubt it. The kerbal team seems more interested in just focusing on Kerbal. I messaged the KSP subreddit for permission to post about Orbiter being open source and they told me to basically to kick rocks.

Wow. This is huge news. Thank you!!

USSR technology doing USSR spacecraft shenanigans.

The situation looks much less grim than it did 12 hours ago. Looking hopeful they'll be able to get this to the ISS.

This is turning into a nightmare. The most stressful rendezvous I've ever seen.

:confused::confused::confused: Details are behind a Russian paywall and the author is being tight lipped on Twitter.

Seeing MLM finally launch feels surreal.

Who knows? I wouldn't lay out $28 million for a 15-minute spaceflight in the first place. Orbit, on the other hand...

Hello, Please post your log so that I may diagnose the problem.

Thanks Dave, That looks good to me as well. Looks like enough fuel to do the disposal burn that was mentioned as part of the flight plan too.

Definitely not a dumb question, as an off-plane intercept would have a significant dV penalty. I did check and I was a little off-plane for that scenario. I now have the dV down to about 2737 m/s. Given we don't know the date or time Artemis 1 is planning to launch, I'm going with a Nov. 1...

Alright, good values. I was starting from a circular 200 kilometer orbit. Makes sense to have the SLS do a little bit more work than that. I changed the post-SECO orbit to those values, and I have a total dV requirement of about ~3200 m/s for a burn time of 1,193 seconds for a TLI burn, so I'm...

Yeah, annoying how that was the only easily accessible figures I could find on the ICPS. I did these values from SpaceFlightInsider 3490 kg empty mass, 28576 kg fuel mass. However, this still falls far short of the needed fuel for a TLI. I have to entirely deplete Orion's fuel to get into the...

That solves the mystery then. Looking at the ini files, the values for empty mass and fuel mass are for the 5m DCSS. EmptyMass=3488.125 FuelMass=27220.000 Thrust=111010.000 BurnTime=1125.000 ignite_delay=10.000 NASA documents also list this (empty mass ~4,000 kg, fuel mass ~27,000 kg)...

SLS does - specifically, the ICPS is unable to reach the necessary dV for a TLI. The Burn Time parameter is the one that is publicly available for the RL-10 and ICPS. This number should be valid. Could be the public numbers are inaccurate? I remember reading that the ICPS is slightly...