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Hello all, The month of September is the application period for the JPL Solar System Ambassadors program in the United States. Here are some official words from the program director: "The Solar System Ambassadors (SSA) program works with motivated volunteers across the nation to share the...

I was looking at some ITS artist renderings on the SpaceX Flickr site and started wondering about this as a possible add-on. I've never done much 3D modeling myself but I searched to see if anyone else has, just for the fun of it. I don't know if it's helpful and I can't see any licensing info...

Nice! The EDL is some pretty incredible "nonsense." ;) You've developed your own code to convincingly simulate (in some detail) what the SpaceX team accomplishes in real life. Great work! In combination with the Orbiter 2016 visuals, it's jaw-dropping to watch this happen "live." And even though...

Immersion obviously is best but isn't always possible. I studied Japanese formally in the early 1980's when I lived in Pasadena, CA. Community college was free for all CA residents back then and I took an evening class at Pasadena City College (I was already working for the predecessor of the...

You can use the Orbiter flight recorder/playback feature for this. The flight recorder files are normally created within Orbiter, by turning on the Record feature while Orbiter is running a scenario. There are several time-step indexed ASCII files created and saved during the recording period...

This is a fascinating discussion but I just want to point out that the whole "realism" thread emanated from a quote "Space Simulator is a realistic space flight simulator for iPad/iPhone" -- a quote that came from the app developer's website. Marketing is another dimension here with its own...

It's really incredible the number of different space and astronomy simulations that are out there, available or in development, free and otherwise. There's something for everybody it seems. I had never heard of "Go For Launch" and with hyper-realistic cockpits and VR support, it might be missing...

Yes, but my explanation is probably wrong about this. It obviously had SOME version of DX installed because Orbiter ran with its native (DX7?) graphics. But whatever was installed or updated by the Steam/Universe Sandbox installer made the difference for orbiter_ng. Keep in mind that this was...

D3D9 on new Windows 10 PC? I have a related question with Orbiter 2016 on a brand new Windows 10 "gaming" PC that I got mainly for music recording and Orbiter. I have Orbiter 2016 installed on an external USB drive which I have used to run Orbiter on both my work laptop and my "old" home...

MikeB invited me to participate in the wiki back in 2014 when he asked if I would agree to have Go Play In Space as part of it. I said certainly, and that I would like to be involved with editing it, but then I mostly didn't, except for creating the "cover page" collage. I had played a bit with...

Thanks! I'm actually planning to do some editing of the Wiki version of Go Play In Space for Orbiter 2016. That way others can make edits too, although this is all theoretical so far (including my edits), though I did create the cover graphic on that page sometime ago. -Bruce

I wrote a review article on Orbiter 2016 for The Space Review, and it just went live here. Jeff suggested that I also cover how it compares with other space sims, so I added brief overviews of Kerbal Space Program and Space Simulator, an Orbiter-like app for iOS (and maybe other platforms). This...

World of Colliers and World of 2001 by Sputnik are two of my all-time favorite Orbiter add-ons. I tried out Colliers v2.02 (from 2011, updated for 2010-P1) with Orbiter 2016 and it fails with a few different errors that don't occur with the 2010 version. It mainly complains about a missing Earth...

I tried to send the following as a PM to AR81 but was told he is not able or willing to receive private messages. If anyone knows how to reach him, could you please forward this message? Thanks, Bruce ---------------- Hello, I am updating "Go Play in Space" for Orbiter 2010, working with Mark...

I don't have this book (though I'm thinking I might buy it for my space education collection), but I spent a few minutes using Amazon's "Search inside the book" feature to search for various terms like inclination, rendezvous, ascending node, etc. This way I was able to view quite a few pages...

TransX is a great tool, and "The Deep Space Flight Manual" is an excellent explanation of interplanetary orbital mechanics and operations. It looks like it was last edited in 2003 and I don't know how recent changes in TransX affect its current usability (certainly all the nice background...

No more COMIC SANS? That's my favorite font! I can't promise that, sorry. Maybe by the fourth edition. :) Mark is indeed working on several re-entry cases that we will include, one for Mars to be used at the end of the updated "Mars Awaits" (IMFD 5.5) chapter, and a couple of Earth cases for a...

Well thank YOU for your 'thank you' - it's nice to hear. This was exactly why I wrote "Go Play In Space" in the first place - in the hopes that it might not only help people to learn and enjoy Martin's fantastic virtual space world, but that it might also open a new door for even a handful of...

OK, I'll discuss this with Mark and consider doing something with re-entry. There may be no consensus, but I assume more would be interested in Earth re-entry (vs. say Mars which is also atmospheric entry). While there are common factors especially in setting up any re-entry, there are...

The plan is to use the latest IMFD version to plan a trip from Earth to Mars, updating or replacing the current Mars chapter which uses IMFD 4.2.1.