General Question fastest way to fly to the moon and other planets?

[spaceman1987]

Hi does anybody know what spacecraft on orbiter will fly the fastest to get to the moon and other planets near the earth?
I would like to fly and land on the moon about 1 to 2 hours of flight will that be possible with any spacecraft or not?

thanks.

 

[Tex]

Nothing will get you to the Moon that fast.

 

[fireballs619]

Do you mean 1 to 2 hours real time, or with time accel. To my knowledge, there isn't a ship that can get there in 2 hours realtime, but with time accel, it possible with many. I've gotten to the moon relatively quickly using the DG, DGIV, and the XR2. I'm sure the XR5 could get their quickly also.

 

[Izack]

Hi does anybody know what spacecraft on orbiter will fly the fastest to get to the moon and other planets near the earth?
I would like to fly and land on the moon about 1 to 2 hours of flight will that be possible with any spacecraft or not?

thanks.

Well, there are many fantasy vessels out there that could do it in a few minutes. I'm sure the UCGO Arrow would be capable of doing it in less than half a day easily. I haven't pushed it to its limits yet. :hmm:

Also, this is sort of unrelated but I once fired an Atlantis SRB out of a HARP cannon at Baikonur and it hit Copernicus after 20 minutes of flight. I set some ungodly muzzle velocity, though. It was hilarious. :rofl:

 

[statickid]

you can use Rwarp MFD to get there in a few seconds!

 

[astrosammy]

[ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=1471"]LSS-Photon[/ame] can do the moon trip in a few seconds.

 

[Grover]

i just did a trip to the Moon in an XR-2, it took just over 7 days, in reality, it all depends on how quickly your craft can accelerate, and how quckly it can decelerate (without killing its crew), if you imagine travelling at lightspeed, if you could come to stable orbiting speed right as you hit the Perilune, you could essentially make a trans-lunar insertion in a few seconds, but in real life, your acceleration is limited by your crew's survivability (id say roughly 5G accleeration, making it just under 50m/s^2 acceleration) which would make the journey about a week long, maybe a day shorter i think.

or in terms of the virtual orbiter world, you could do it instantly if you just slew or warp

 

[statickid]

a week?? why does it take you a week?

 

[garyw]

You can use the arrow and IMFD, you'll waste a lot of delta-v but it could probably do it in 2 hours.
I tend to spend 2-3 days doing a lunar transfer.

 

[Urwumpe]

If you need more than 3 days and less than 3 months, you did something wrong in your calculations. You can get to the moon in more complex trajectories than just a single orbit, but these only make sense for unmanned missions.

With a DG, you can get to the moon easily in 24 hours, without refueling.Landing is just a bit tougher, since you will be pretty short on fuel then.

 

[Izack]

What exactly is a 'slew?' I've heard several references to it on this forum, but it doesn't match up with my definition (or Wikipedia's, which has to do with attitude control and not celestial motion.) Is it Orbiter-specific lingo?

 

[RisingFury]

DeltaGlider with unlimited fuel...

 

[Urwumpe]

What exactly is a 'slew?' I've heard several references to it on this forum, but it doesn't match up with my definition (or Wikipedia's, which has to do with attitude control and not celestial motion.) Is it Orbiter-specific lingo?

To slew is to change the orientation in space. It is not Orbiter-specific, but general spaceflight lingo.

For example, here: http://www.onera.fr/eucass/2005/Proceedings/3.03.06.pdf

 

[Izack]

To slew is to change the orientation in space. It is not Orbiter-specific, but general spaceflight lingo.

For example, here: http://www.onera.fr/eucass/2005/Proceedings/3.03.06.pdf

That's what I thought it was. I meant its use in Grover's sentence "you could do it instantly if you just slew or warp." Also, on the LSS-Photon page, there's a note: "Note: This is not the same as slewing." :shrug:

 

[Hielor]

That's what I thought it was. I meant its use in Grover's sentence "you could do it instantly if you just slew or warp." Also, on the LSS-Photon page, there's a note: "Note: This is not the same as slewing." :shrug:

FSX uses "slew mode" as a mode where you "fly" around directly from one point to the next without actually worrying about aerodynamics or nonsense like that. I imagine that's what Grover meant, with the Orbiter version of that being opening the scenario editor...

 

[spaceman1987]

thanks for the info guys
by the way do any of the spacecrafts in orbiter besides the shuttle even exist in real life?

 

[garyw]

by the way do any of the spacecrafts in orbiter besides the shuttle even exist in real life?

ISS does, MIR does. The DG and Shuttle-A are fictional but google would have told you that.

The DG is there as a good training vessel as it's got a lot more DeltaV than the shuttle.

 

[SiberianTiger]

ISS does, MIR does. The DG and Shuttle-A are fictional but google would have told you that.

Mir did. And the ISS isn't exactly of the same shape as in the real life. I'm just saying that for the new guy...

 

[Urwumpe]

The Carina is actually also a real spacecraft, despite being at the wrong scale - the original was about twice as large. Well, it was never flown, as far as I can tell.

http://www.astronautix.com/craft/esaacrv.htm

 

[statickid]

also you can download (pretty much) the the entire history of rocketry, a few selected airplanes, as well as payload launch vehicles such as Titan V and even the Orion project and historical experimental planes etc etc... and also some projects that never flew but were very real.

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Oh and i think there might be a taxicab, those exist too