Orbiter Screenshot Thread

[David413]

TMA-20 backs away from ISS / STS-134

As the Soyuz TMA-20 departs the ISS, it performs stationkeeping for photos...

 

[Eli13]

So someone actually did do it in orbiter.
Good on ya David!

 

[Keatah]

Hold on. Tex, Izack.......... What the hell did we just do?

Anyway im at Tex's old site

How do you get the glowing white/tan tinting?

 

[Eli13]

Sure, all the times I've used that for a solar system planet I've crashed a few seconds later. Even if I go for several thousand kilometers out. All the dV in the world does me no good, and apparently prograde is straight up.

Thats why you go out 40m on a gas giant and at least 6m for earth mars or venus. Then for mercury about 3m. Retrograde would be straight up, because gravity would pull you straight down. Thus, your direction of travel should be toward the planet.

 

[Tex]

Hold on. Tex, Izack.......... What the hell did we just do?

:lol: I'm not sure, but it's great to see so many people inspired to do their own solar system tours from our screen shots. Nice editing to your image there by the way.

I'm actually working on a video now, first real Orbiter video I've made in a long while. I haven't decided yet if I'll release a preview or just hold on to it until I get it all finished. In any case, I'm not spending a crazy amount of time on this one like I did Orbital Reflections.

 

[Bloodworth]

Hold on. Tex, Izack.......... What the hell did we just do?

Anyway im at Tex's old site

Are you guys doing this on OMP?

 

[Chub777]

Getting closer...

Even more closer...

Closer still...

So close...

Another shot.

More closer.

I had to dock now or to dock during the night.

Night time docking, then.

More pictures later.

 

[Izack]

Are you guys doing this on OMP?

No. That would be neat though, if it wasn't impossible. OMP has no time acceleration, and if it did interplanetary flight would be a farce.

Night time docking, then.

It's even more fun than daytime docking with local lights.

A familiar sight for once, after more than 50 years in deep space:

Good thing UMMUs are immortal (when they aren't getting killed in crashes and explosions. :lol

A sight for sore eyes tired of gas-balls and frozen rocks:

Getting ready for separation:

Separation over our final destination:

Just one more orbit!

(I already reentered, but a glitch teleported my DG-IV into the sea, killing the crew a few minutes before landing, so I'll be doing this again from an autosave before Earth orbit injection sometime today. What a heartbreaker! :rofl

 

[HAL9001]

How do you get the glowing white/tan tinting?

just with blur-effect in paint.net I think...

 

[Spacethingy]

To use a well-worn joke... This can't end well!

Seriously though - what do I do now? I've just used TransferMFD to get to this stage, and um... I'd like not to crash! Just getting into orbit would be nice! HELP!

:idk:

 

[diogom]

My suggestion: Get it horizontal, engines paralel to Moon, and burn..... On a high thrust spacecraft, of course. If it's not, you're doomed.

 

[Wishbone]

Start IMFD, run Map program, set Cnt=p-Moon. Fire normal or antinormal, doesn't matter. Watch PeA, as soon as it gets to 8-15 km, you're OK for a circularization burn.

EDIT: two other solutions possible. A) authorize use of Death Star, B) say "This is no moon" for a hundred times hoping the problem goes away...

 

[N_Molson]

Well the Orbit HUD shows you your orientation relative to your orbital plane (relative to the Moon).

Heading 0 means straight ahead. Heading 180 means retrofire. Heading 90 or 270 is what you want, it will deviate your trajectory from the center of the Moon.

There is another option that has not been mentionned. If you have enough fuel and engine power, you can try a "direct ascent" approach. This means you use your engines to brake and control your descent to the surface. It isn't the most efficient one, but it works too. Some probes like Surveyor did that.

 

[Izack]

To use a well-worn joke... This can't end well!

Seriously though - what do I do now? I've just used TransferMFD to get to this stage, and um... I'd like not to crash! Just getting into orbit would be nice! HELP!

:idk:

Next time you try this, note your PeA long before you enter the Moon's SOI and offset your course to keep it positive. The best tool for this operation is LunarTransferMFD by Jarmonik. It will automatically offset from the Moon's centre at trans-lunar injection, and is more accurate than Transfer, as well as being less mysterious to use.

 

[Tex]

Seriously though - what do I do now?

Simply rotate to the right so you're facing 90 degrees in relation to your prograde (velocity) vector. Watching PeA on your OrbitMFD, burn until it raises above the surface.

 

[HAL9001]

I stared my trip, using a modificated AR-18

; === Configuration file for vessel class UCGO Arrow - By Dansteph httP://orbiter.dansteph.com ===
ClassName = UCGOArrow
Module = UCGOArrow
ImageBmp =Images\UCGOArrow\UCGO_Arrow.bmp

;--------------------------------------------------------------
;HERE BELOW ARE THE VALUE YOU CAN CONFIGURE TO CHANGE BEHAVIOUR
;OF THE MOTHER SHIP UCGO ARROW FREIGHTER 18
;--------------------------------------------------------------
;NOTE: GOOD VALUE TO TAKE OFF FROM EARTH: "HOVER_THRUST_POWER=60.0e6"
;      The Arrow was NOT designed for atmospheric rentry. Autoland 
;      will only work at low speed low altitude in this case.
;      Deactivating angular limiter may show odd behaviour off autopilots.


ANGULAR_DAMPER_ACTIVATED	=0		; Limit the angular velocity (0=deactivate 1=activate)
RADIO_CHATTER_PLAYDELAY		=1		; Chatter Delay in fonction of altitude 3= long delay 2=medium delay 1=short delay
VESSEL_NEED_CREW		=1		; Disable ship control if no crew aboard (1=disable 0=enable always)
MONTH_OXYGEN_RESERVE		=96		; O2 reserve in month for a full crew of 20 (max 96 month)
MAIN_THRUST_POWER		=149620500	; Power of main thrust in newton.
RCS_THRUST_POWER		=66498000	; Power of RCS thrust in newton.
HOVER_THRUST_POWER		=121913000	; Power of Hover Thrust in newton. (change to 60.0e6 to take-off from earth)
ISP				=3000000	; ISP (Change fuel consumption)
ENABLE_MAD_GRAVITY_WHEEL	=1		; For those that love gravity wheel turning like a mad during long trip
                                        	; put "1" to disable the code that make it independent of time acceleration.
ENABLE_AMBIANCE_SOUND		=1		; Enable tiny rumble and pump sound effect that are played from time to time
 						; in cockpit

wich I saved under another name. I changed the sattelites-config to deploy automaticly 100 seconds after releasing.
I now finised the iner-planets (near-flyby at sun and mercury, landing on venus, flyby at phobos, deimos, landing on mars and I'll get to outer planets soonly. (Saturn, Titan, upiter, IO, Eceladue, ...)
more screenshots, scenaios, records and videos will follow.




View attachment mycruise.zip

required: Orbiter, the noral DanSteph-stuff, and [ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=4482"]this[/ame] (wich must be installed BEFORE my folder gets installed, because I made a small config-change) and some different cargos, but these are no important...
Also I'll fill the long do-nothing-time on Venus with something, wich would than replace landed-on-Venus record.

greetings:tiphat:, HAL9001

 

[kevin580]

Some edited Screenshots...

Shuttle Launch

ISS

''May 21 at KSC'' :lol: (Can you see this pic? It's blank for me )

Shuttle VC

 

[HAL9001]

Io Base Camp:

THIS IS JUST AWESOME! :thumbup:

may I do some editing? could become even cooler...

greetings:tiphat:, HAL9001

 

[Loru]

another test launch

note Themis goddes on Themis Core stage

 

[Tex]

Orbiter movie in production now...