An online launch performance calculator using Orbiter?

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It should be doable to create an online launcher performance calculator using Orbiter analogous to Dr. John Shilling's calculator:

Launch Vehicle Performance Calculator.
http://silverbirdastronautics.com/LVperform.html

It should have a GUI where you could just plug in the specifications of your rocket and get a reasonably accurate estimate of the payload to orbit, without having to be familiar with Orbiter programming.

Bob Clark

Note: this is a continuation of discussion started here.
 
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It should be more doable, if you do it.

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It should be more doable, if you do it.

Is it already Christmas?


Sadly, it is beyond my Orbiter programming skills, which are
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But I will say, since there is no other site on the web that does it, such a site would get a lot of visits.

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But I will say, since there is no other site on the web that does it, such a site would get a lot of visits.

That doesn't really matter. There is no plan. Only a wish. And a really abstract wish.

Can't you at least write a software specification and do some of the research yourself?
 
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