On Forum Projects and other things

[fireballs619]

Whoa, first non-VASO related blog post. I hardly know what to write about :lol:.

With the emergence of REVIO, and the failure of my VSA, I have been thinking a lot about forum projects lately. Not any that I want to start up, but just the idea of them. OFSS worked out amazingly, and kinda stands as a shining goal to work towards. If you can say that your project worked out as well as OFSS, you did something right. Next came OFMM (pardon me if I skipped a project, I am a somewhat new addition to these forums), which started out great, but slowed to a crawl. Now comes REVIO, which seems promising, but I am a little cautious. Thinking about it, we went LEO->Mars->Venus. What happened to the Lunar Mission?!:lol: I feel like there's a large part of the forum space program missing because of the lack of a Lunar mission. Think about it, it wouldn't require as much development and planning as a interplanetary mission, so could be done. We could use the experience from this to help with planning other missions. with a little ease.

Aw well, I'm not starting anything, so whats the matter, right? Just throwing it out there.

Lunar missions...hmm. That got me thinking about AMSO and NASSP, which I have yet to tackle. I think they may be my winter project. I'll start out with AMSO and move on to NASSP. A nice introduction into vertical launch, eh?I'm so used to posting blogs, its become a habit. Expect more pointless ones like these in the future :tiphat:.

 

[Shadow Addict]

That's not a bad idea. The dV requirements would be way less for anything, and it would definitely give us some experience that we evidently don't have* in mission planning. I'd definitely be interested in helping to plan out one of these if some interest gets drummed up.

*I didn't follow OFMM, so I don't know how well its missions were planned. All I know is it's come to a stall now, and that tells me that the planning maybe wasn't so good.

 

[garyw]

OFSS worked because it used a rolling scenario, that is, every completed mission had a scenario passed on to the next person. It also had someone behind it saying "This is the mission, who wants to fly it?" and they also tried to get mission reports from people so it provided some entertainment for those of us who never flew it.

For a VSA to succeed someone has to spend a lot of time planning it out and pulling everything together as well as helping new people along the way. It is a lot of effort.

My own VSA uses a rolling scenarion and is nearly two years behind on current missions because work and life get in the way. The date in my orbiter universe is Monday 16th Feb 2009. That's how behind I am!

 

[Mojave]

HASSESA is working on the MSSEU project; supposedly, if everything goes well, we will be landing on the moon. It is currently unknown if I and HASA's Derk Weijers are going to make the moon missions public, and allow others to join the MSSEU Landing missions.

So moon missions to the Lunar surface hasn't been totally forgot yet

 

[garyw]

If you aren't going top make them public by at least posting updates on a forum post on blog then it can't be used as an example of a VSA success.

 

[Adelanthal]

OFSS was overtaken by OFMM and just kinda .... stopped.

 

[Pyromaniac605]

Well seeing as most Orbiter players have already been to the Moon (in Orbiter of course) it really wouldn't be anything big and amazing.

Darren

 

[Shadow Addict]

Well seeing as most Orbiter players have already been to the Moon (in Orbiter of course) it really wouldn't be anything big and amazing.

Darren

That's no reason not to do it. I'm sure many OFMM members have been to Mars before. It's for the fun of organizing a project and going through with it.