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    Mount Wilson marker in the wrong place

    While flying from the ISS to land at Edwards, as I approached the coastline, I turned on markers in planetarium view. Looking around, I noticed the Mount Wilson marker, and comparing it to the Los Angeles and Edwards markers and to the coastline, I thought something looked strange. From the...
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    Challenge Fully loaded Shuttle-A from Earth to Ganymede

    Run the Shuttle-A -> "Shuttle-A Launch" scenario. Using the scenario editor, change the date to July 11, 2011 - a good Jupiter launch window. Get to Ganymede orbit, using the magic of scenario editor to refuel after reaching low earth orbit. I managed to get to a 100 km equatorial orbit around...
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    LaunchMFD missing .DLLs

    I recently did a fresh format-and-reinstall of Windows XP on one of my computers, the primary use of which is to run Orbiter, so I installed that and started installing critical (to me) add-ons. Orbiter 2006P1 malfunctioned in the usual way until I installed two .DLL files. I can never...
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    Apophis Rendezvous and Tagging (A.R.T.)

    In the SpaceX Falcon1 flight 4 thread, someone mentioned this add-on. A.R.T. It simulates a Falcon 1e with a spin-stabilized Star30 3rd stage and a small but capable little spacecraft, designed to intercept and land on the near-Earth asteroid Apophis. It also includes a nice detailed (AKA...
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    next available flight to Saturn and Neptune

    I was vaguely remembering an article about ESA considering a new mission to either Enceladus or Europa, and I felt like seeing when a flight to Enceladus could be done next. Using TransX I found the next plausible opportunity to reach Saturn by way of Jupiter gravity assist is in early November...
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    crazy Delta Glider rescue

    Often when I feel like Orbiting and am too lazy to create a scenario, I just run the "Solar System -> Today" scenario and see if I can find something interesting to do. Here's the latest one. I got in the GL-01 Delta Glider, lit up IMFD, and planned a flight to Mercury at the next optimal...
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    Deepstar - no RCS?

    I recently tried the newly-released Deepstar add-on. I like it a lot, but I can't get RCS to work right. The prograde / retrograde / normal / antinormal / killrot autopilot functions work. The autoburn function in IMFD works. However I can't use RCS manually in either rotational or...
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