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Hello everybody, just like the thread title says, this question is about finding out what kind of changes in Orbiter and rendering clients would be necessary to support proper ellipsoid planets, like the WGS84 reference for Earth. One possible component that could need work might be how the...

I would like to see a Genesis Single Person Spacecraft in Orbiter, which is the continuation of NASAs Flexcraft concept. This document here contains many useful details, that could be used for getting the spacecraft some more feeling than being just a larger MMU...

I hope you have all done your emergency preparations well, this time it looks really like luck ran out for us. That NASA simulation looks really bad for us, its almost a bullseye hit on Earth. Just a few hours left. A really spooky event. And sadly too much cloud cover to see what will happen...

I started working on updating the old "Gemini-Titan 2 Version 4.5" add-on towards Orbiter 2016. The current sources can be found here: https://github.com/Urwumpe/gemini4orbiter My current work is mostly about the bureaucratic side of starting a new FOSS project. Contrary to my role in SSU, I...

The TESS space telescope, usually searching for Exoplanets, had discovered TYC 7037-89-1, a very beautiful star system made of three binary starsystems, https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1672/discovery-alert-first-six-star-system-where-all-six-stars-undergo-eclipses/ The preprint to the...

I resumed working on a simple find_package script for finding the OrbiterSDK in CMake, in case somebody else needs it or has suggestions how to improve it, feel free to contribute. cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.17) # - Try to find OrbiterSDK # Once done, this will define # #...

Looks like there might be a bigger newsstory later today. http://astrobiology.com/2020/09/phosphine-detected-in-the-atmosphere-of-venus---an-indicator-of-possible-life.html A livestream of the presentation will be available here, in one hour from now:

Just found some information about that one. The current plans are just for a sounding rocket launch site near the equator, which also NASA wants to use. But such a place could sure also work well for orbital launches or be modified to contain a Orbiter standard VTOL launch pad. A few km to the...

A German company is starting to build small launchers, planned first launch is next year. The production plant was opened yesterday by the Bavarian minister president Söder in Ottobrunn, near Munich. The start-up is completely private funded (including a former SpaceX investor) and has 100...

Just saw the pictures and videos of the massive explosions at the port of Beirut, which happened a few minutes ago. What strikes me there is the rust-reddish explosion cloud, which I usually only saw on rockets using RFNA or similar during the Challenger accident by NTO. The origin of the...

There is a new biggest rock meteorite found in Germany, a 30.26 kg massive H4-5 chondrite found in Blaubeuren, 17 km west of Ulm. The owner stumbled over it already in 1989 in his garden and noticed its high iron content. But left it there until the beginning of 2020, when he thought twice...

The creator and long-term drawer of the Asterix comics, Albert Uderzo, has died because of a heart attack yesterday, at the age of 92. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/24/asterix-creator-albert-uderzo-dies-at-92...

There is a ongoing situation at the airport of Madrid, a 767 of Air Canada had a burst tyre and an engine malfunction during take-off, the aircraft is currently circling over Madrid to reduce the landing weight while a F-18 of the Spanish airforce is inspecting the damage. They are preparing an...

Just heard of it after leaving the skunkworks here, the damage looks like a big disaster. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/24/us/texas-houston-explosion/index.html

Little information so far, as far as German news go, the aircraft crashed in a forest next to the village Zemmer. The pilot was able to eject and was brought into a hospital. The crash site is just a few kilometers away from Spangdahlen airbase, north of Trier...

Sigmund Jähn was the first German in space, orbiting Earth in Salyut 6 during the mission Soyuz 31 in 1978. He spend 7 days, 20 hours and 49 minutes in space during that flight, especially testing the multispectral camera MKF 6, which was built in the GDR and essentially the part of the deal...

Maybe some people outside Germany know him as well. He was mostly into highly streamlined cars, but also designed one of the first Wankel engine aircraft. His PC case design was a common thing in Germany during the 1990s. https://www.dw.com/en/luigi-colanis-round-world-of-design/g-50444436

Strange that nobody posted it yet. http://www.arianespace.com/mission-update/flight-vv15-mission-failure/ The anomaly started right after staging and second stage ignition. The amusing anomaly: The commenter of the live stream going on like on a usual launch despite the trajectory plot...

Hallo zusammen, gerade durch Zufall entdeckt, eine Dokumentation vom letzten Jahr über Lutz Kayser, den Kopf hinter OTRAG, der ersten privaten Raumfahrtfirma in der Geschichte. https://www.spiegel.tv/videos/1609262-fly-rocket-fly Könnte für einige der deutschsprachigen User sicher...

I am surprised to find no thread about this one yet, it is one of the worst airliner accidents in Russia of the past years. Especially Aeroflot had no fatalities since 2008 (Aeroflot Flight 821). A two year old Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft had to abort its flight to Murmansk after a climb to...