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Yes, you have to (as jedidia expresses it) sensitively build your craft. This part is heavier than the other one? Better place it in line with the CoG & center of thrust. Those two parts are balanced? Good, place them laterally to decrease the length of your interplanetary stack. And yes, you...

There is great necessity in humour when dealing with unavoidable voids in space travel...

Here is my newest concept for interplanetary exploration. Due to severe lack of budget and at the same time an urge for a prestige project, this interplanetary ship can only house 1 crew member for a lifetime, with only basic life support and no entertainment at all. A volunteer, if no one...

Thank you for making clear the dependence on the reference concerning pro- and retrograde, I am sorry I brought this up so quickly. This is indeed a great add-on, and its perspective on Orbiter is as different as a new sim is. It gives great an insight into the harsh and unforgiving economy of...

Thank you both, I tried it today before work and it didn't work - had engines in group 1, will try to integrate them as group 2. One thing - is it possible in the IMS "flight" subdisplay that you've mixed prograde and retrograde?

I think it's about 3km/s, but I need to check again. It most probably will need a "tug" vessel to maneuver it around, but it goes into an orbit from Enceladus' surface with negligible fuel... It's 6.13km/s! Let's say I removed the main engines and only left it with hover engines, how would...

Hehehe! Well, with my small lander (currently rather a tailsitting space tug but great for delta-v data collection) I managed a Kerbal-like injection and landing on Enceladus today. The Novara class mothership had enough delta-v left for a possible circularization of its Saturn orbit after...

Hehehe, I had hoped that in the community forum of a Newtonian spaceflight sim Star Wars references were scarce... but now that you guys say it, it's quite obvious to me, too! Should I have better information about occurences of the docking port relocation matter, I'll post more data! Thanks...

I've found out some glitch(?) of the DADG docking adapters, but maybe it has to do with the Deltaglider rather than IMS? It seems to me that DOCKPORTs should use the datum coordinates rather than relative to the center of mass... the funny thing is that this doesn't reproduce all the time...

Thank you, jedidia and Peter Ross, I've managed to adjust the CONTROL_AI module to something working fine for my purposes! It now has storage for a month of supplies to sustain two crew members. I've modified the curved radiators to cool the ASTG array with a similar radiator to the one cooling...

Thank you for the comprehensive answer. I've found the parameters necessary to store food/oxygen/water, to accomodate 2 crew in the "control ai" module, but I'm not sure how I could add a generator to it. Maybe I should add an ASTG module like your lander has? ...

Very much, jedidia, very much. It adds the perfect balance to the farther future vehicles I used to explore the solar system with. And I fully understand you. I used to do skinning for Rise Of Flight, modelling aircraft for X-Plane and play in a small band, but all it takes is a small change in...

Thanks, I've edited the efficiency of the sidemount engines. This is exactly the kind of add-on that makes Orbiter a complete space travel sandbox; I can't wait for RC3!

Thank you, Nexiss, I had a first glance at the .cfg files now and they seem to invite reverse engineering. Good to know! My quest for a custom built lander, though, is because the XR and DG series just don't fit the "pioneer era" performance envelope for my taste. There is great potential in...

Thank you very much for this great addon! This is what I have achieved so far: The "Seiner Majestät Raumschiff S.M.R.S. St. Georg" capable of sustaining 2 crew members for a lifetime (cyanide capsules and antidepressants included). 20 LH2 tanks at 52t each give a dv of 24km/s, all...