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Hey is anyone is looking for a neat idea for an addon, check this out. Maritime Launch Services has received approval to construct a launch site in near Canso, Nova Scotia on Canada's east coast. They have a contract to purchase Cyclone-4M rockets and will carry out as many as 10 or 12...

Hard to believe it's been so long but it was 44 years ago tomorrow that Apollo 11 made it's historic moon landing and Neil Armstrong took that "One Small Step" into the history books. Literally the whole world watched, caught up the spectacle of human beings leaving the Earth behind and visiting...

As a fellow Canadian, I have watched Chris Hadfield's career, especially his recent stint as commander of the ISS with a great deal of pride. Watching him and his numerous videos and Tweets it is obvious that he is a man who very much loves his job and has a passion for sharing it with the rest...

Breaking news this afternoon. The RCMP along with CSIS, the Ontario Provincial Police, the Quebec Provincial Police, several local police forces in the Toronto and Montreal area along with the FBI and US Department of Homeland Security held a press conference this afternoon to announce the...

I've been having agreat time flying the wonderful XR series of spacecraft and decided to try using the UAP along with them to get into space and dock with the ISS. My first attempts involved a manual take-off and then I used UAP to successfully Rendezvous and dock. I did find that it did not...

I understand that David413 has sadly chosen to retire his excellent shuttle fleet addon and has removed it from OH. That is really too bad and it leaves me wondering what the status of the in-development update of AutoFCS is. Has anyone heard anything about it from David or the author? It would...

ACSoft has asked me to pass along the news that AMSO 1.21 has just been released! I was part of the beta group for this release and I can tell you that there is some exciting new stuff there. Be sure to view the What's New document for full details. Among the improvements: A fix for the...

To all my fellow Canadian Orbitauts....Happy Canada Day. 144 years ago today the provinces of Canada was split into the provinces of Ontario and Quebec and then united in Confederation with the provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to form the beginnings of the nation of Canada...

An unidentified 17 year old boy from Calgary, Alberta, Canada has paid his deposit to reserve his spot on board a Virgin Galactic spaceflight. He is the only person currently on the list who is under 18 years of age which puts him ahead of any others who now wish to put down a deposit. He...

I have been using Grover's wonderful DeltaGlider IV re-entry tutorial with great success. I've mastered re-entry and landing with the Deltaglider and I now want to branch out and try it with the Shuttle Fleet as well as the XR2. My question is this: How do I determine my entry angle? In the...

It wasn't pretty, it wasn't error free but as they say, any landing you can walk away from is a good landing. Using Grover's DGIV Re-entry tutorial, I managed in my first attempt to sucessfully de-orbit a DGIV from the ISS and land it on the runway at KSC. I have previously done all manner of...

Now that shuttle fleet 4.7 as been released and since AutoFCS is not compatible with Orbiter 2010 P1, I've decided to bite the bullet and try to learn how to a manual entry and landing with the Space Shuttle. Can anyone recommend a good starting point for me as far as tutorials or movies go? I...

Gary Goodyear, the minister of state for science and technology, made the announcement Thursday morning that Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield will take command of the ISS in 2013 during the second half of his six month deployment to the station. This will be Col. Hadfield's third trip into...

I was just wondering what those panels attached to the fairing of the manned Soyuz rockets are. There appears to be four of them and they are square shaped. I did notice that the unmanned Soyuz launchers lack these panels. My guess is that they have something to do with the launch gantry -...

Just wondering if anyone had given any thought to building a Buran addon for Orbiter 2010? I've tried the two or three that are our there now and none of them appear to work with the new version of Orbiter. Typically, they suffer from the "invisibility" issue. Kulch has that really nice Energia...

I am having a great time with the new Shuttle Fleet 4.5 addon and Oribter 2010 and I decided to try my hand at creating some scnearios. I wanted to create a launch scenario re-creating the Challenger launch of the LDEF and a launch scenario using Discovery re-creating the launch of Hubble. I...

I'm feeling a bit char broiled at the moment. I was trying out the CTV2 Lunar version on a mission to the moon. I successfully flew to and orbited the moon and after about 10 laps, I did my TEI. That's where I made my mistake. Despite the fact that I had more than enough fuel to enter Earth...

I am having an extremely weird problem with Orbiter and a couple of addons and I hope someone can shed some light on the issue for me. I am running Orbiter 2010 but I am pretty certain that the same thing happened with 2006. I've found that if I install either the Velcro Saturns or the DG...

Hi everyone....I was a pretty active user a couple of years back but life and work got in the way and I haven't been around much. I recently re-registered for the forum here and I'm back to spending far too much of my spare time flying Orbiter! My skills are a bit rusty - I used to be pretty...

It's almost strange how much of a sense of accomplishment I feel after doing this but I have to admit that I feel great. I just completed my first complete take-off to splash down Apollo mission using Orbiter 2010 and the wonderful Amso 1.19 addon by ACSoft! The visuals of this incredible...