General Question Jupiter Rockets (DIRECT) question

[IronRain]

hello iveryone,

I've downloaded Jupiter Rockets (DIRECT) and I realy like it, exept of the moon lander. so I want to add manualy the Lunar lander of francisdrake.

this is posible in this add-on by editing the scenario file, and add this:

Payload VesselName VesselMass creates VesselName as payload with mass=VesselMass (e.g. Vessels\Deltaglider 24900)

now is my question: Where can I find the vessel mass??

thanks!

IronRain

 

[dougkeenan]

Can't say for sure what he used but I went with:

#define MASS_LSAM_TOTAL  (44839.)
#define MASS_LSAM_MAX_PROP (28384.)

 

[francisdrake]

Hi, I suggest to use the value from the ESAS report, that is 35.055 kg for the lunar module.

When I flew some test missons I had to increase the fuel mass for the lunar insertion burn, so the total mass went up to ~45.000 kg. But this was with the ESAS CEV, which had a bigger resource module than the latest design cycle (606).
So the 35 ton for the lunar module seems plausible.

Note: Around 60% of the descent stage fuel is used for the lunar orbit insertion burn, with the CEV riding as a dead mass on the lunar module.

 

[ex-orbinaut]

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now is my question: Where can I find the vessel mass??
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Any vessel (that has a dock?). I use this snippet ship for this purpose. Back up your ShuttlePB.dll original, replace it with this in the modules folder. Launch Orbiter, put a new shuttlePB in orbit and dock the vessel to it with scneditor. The total mass (including actual fuel) of the docked vessel will be displayed on the PB's HUD.

 

[Shadow Addict]

You can also find the vessel mass by putting it in a scenario (with no fuel I guess?) and pressing CTRL+I.

 

[IronRain]

You can also find the vessel mass by putting it in a scenario (with no fuel I guess?) and pressing CTRL+I.

that I didn't had thought about this.. thanks!!