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I've been mostly out of touch with space news as of late so I was delighted to see our current window to Mars was being utilized. Seeing the launch time and the countdown clock for the arrival at Mars I massaged the TransX eject data and have a deltaglider sitting on the runway at the cape, ready to launch, with what I think is an approximation of the trajectory that the Mars Science Laboratory is taking. It could be way off but I have no idea how to find out the actual eject values. Corrections are appreciated. Anyway, here's what I came up with yesterday morning.
Code:
BEGIN_DESC
Deltaglider at Cape Canaveral, ready to launch to Mars, on same flight trajectory as the Mars Science Laboratory. Nov 26, 2011.
END_DESC
BEGIN_ENVIRONMENT
System Sol
Date MJD 55891.6231686278
END_ENVIRONMENT
BEGIN_FOCUS
Ship GL-01
END_FOCUS
BEGIN_CAMERA
TARGET GL-01
MODE Cockpit
FOV 60.00
END_CAMERA
BEGIN_HUD
TYPE Surface
END_HUD
BEGIN_MFD Left
TYPE User
MODE TransX
Ship GL-01
FNumber 3
Int 1
Orbit True
Vector -4920347.07195 3858614.02439 -1221099.36919
Vector 193.620071222 142.617959089 -329.514782821
Double 3.98600439969e+014
Double 55891.6231679
Handle Earth
Handle NULL
Handle NULL
Select Target
0 Escape
Autoplan
0 0
Plan type
0 0
Plan
0 1
Plan
0 0
Plan
0 0
Select Minor
0 None
Manoeuvre mode
0 0
Base Orbit
0 0
Prograde vel.
0 0
Man. date
0 55891.6224639
Outward vel.
0 0
Ch. plane vel.
0 0
Intercept with
0 0
Orbits to Icept
0 0
Graph projection
0 3
Scale to view
0 0
Advanced
0 0
Pe Distance
0 6570661.94026
Ej Orientation
0 -0.742700428576
Equatorial view
0 0
Finvars
Finish BaseFunction
Int 2
Orbit False
Handle Sun
Handle Earth
Handle Mars
Select Target
0 Mars
Autoplan
0 0
Plan type
0 2
Plan
0 0
Plan
0 0
Plan
0 1
Select Minor
0 None
Manoeuvre mode
0 0
Base Orbit
0 1
Prograde vel.
0 0
Man. date
0 55891.6231679
Outward vel.
0 0
Ch. plane vel.
0 0
Intercept with
0 0
Orbits to Icept
0 0
Graph projection
0 0
Scale to view
0 0
Advanced
0 0
Prograde vel.
0 2865.50523391
Eject date
4 55891.6465028
Outward vel.
4 1381.66298252
Ch. plane vel.
3 697.148402316
Finvars
Finish BaseFunction
Int 5
Orbit True
Vector 5804765489.25 -2104999791.59 434952450.537
Vector -3309.43185818 1200.39670827 -244.611612173
Double 4.28282991638e+013
Double 56123.7886658
Handle Mars
Handle NULL
Handle NULL
Select Target
0 None
Autoplan
0 0
Plan type
0 1
Plan
0 0
Plan
0 2
Plan
0 0
Select Minor
0 None
Manoeuvre mode
0 0
Base Orbit
0 0
Prograde vel.
0 0
Man. date
0 55891.6231679
Outward vel.
0 0
Ch. plane vel.
0 0
Intercept with
0 0
Orbits to Icept
0 0
Graph projection
0 1
Scale to view
0 0
Advanced
0 0
Draw Base
0 0
Finvars
Finish BaseFunction
END_MFD
BEGIN_MFD Right
TYPE User
MODE TransX
END_MFD
BEGIN_SHIPS
GL-01:DeltaGlider
STATUS Landed Earth
POS -80.6856603 28.5903180
HEADING 330.38
AFCMODE 7
PRPLEVEL 0:1.000000 1:1.000000
NAVFREQ 402 94 0 0
XPDR 0
GEAR 1 1.0000
AAP 0:0 0:0 0:0
END
END_SHIPS
BEGIN_VistaBoost
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