Project Apollo Mission Control/Orb:Connect-question

[XeNoMoRpH]

Hi! I'm currently trying to make a Mission Control-like application for Orbiter (specifically for NASSP or AMSO) connecting to Orb:Connect 2.0. I'm trying to make the application have a look and feel of the Apollo MCC consoles that were in the MOCR.

Just wondering if anyone knows about any news/activity regarding Orb:Connect? From what I could see on SourceForge there are some files uploaded for a version 2.1, but I haven't been able to find any compiled binaries.

Is mr. yagni01 still active on the board perhaps?

Anyways, here are a couple of screenshots of my work-in-progress. Not pretty so far, but I'm focusing on getting the math and calculations up first.

 

[XeNoMoRpH]

I just want to clarify that this is not an /addon/ per se, since it won't be running under Orbiter, but will be a standalone application.

 

[fred18]

Hi XeNoMorph. I'm working on a Mission Control for Orbiter using orbconnect 2.0 as well. Mine is for general use (actually i'm a bit tayloring it for an addon that i'm developing in the meantime). My purpose is not to slow too much orbiter, so i'm trying to calculate the most using the least request to orbiter, hope my english was somehow clear. Just wanted to tell you, so in case we can also collaborate!

Bye

Fred

 

[movieman]

The best solution for NASSP would be to hook into the telemetry data; there's a basic telemetry viewer already which I never finished, that should give some idea of how to do it.

 

[XeNoMoRpH]

fred18: Sounds great. Do you have any information about your project? I've put my source code up here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/apollomc/

movieman: Are there any information available how we can tap into the telemetry system for NASSP? I've seen the GroundStation-program, but I haven't come across any source code for it.

 

[movieman]

There's the TelemetryClient code:

http://nassp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nassp/telemetryClient/

That displays a bunch of the telemetry, but from what I remember the code is quite convoluted. I wanted to create a generic telemetry library but never had the time.

Also I think the CSM only sends a subset of the real telemetry right now, I was going through and adding stuff to display.

 

[XeNoMoRpH]

Thanks a lot! I haven't been able to grasp fully what the telemetry structure looks like, but I'm searching for it in the Apollo documentation. Do you know which Apollo documents I might get some info regarding the telemetry?

 

[movieman]

Good question. It's complex because there are two different data rates which send different data.

It is documented somewhere, but I don't remember where. I have a feeling it's in one of the AGC documents.

Here's the original thread on the telemetry development, but it doesn't say where the information came from:

http://www.ibiblio.org/mscorbit/mscforum/index.php?topic=462.0

Edit: This document seems to list the telemetry available and show some example mission control displays, but doesn't cover the actual downlink format:

http://klabs.org/richcontent/Reports/Failure_Reports/apollo_13/appBpt.5.pdf

 

[XeNoMoRpH]

Thanks a lot! That last document also has some prints of the actual monitor displays from the MOCR/RTCC. I haven't come across much so far, so double thanks to you