For me it was getting to the moon.Congrats, docking to the ISS is an important step in the learning of Orbiter ! :thumbup:
For me it was getting to the moon.
I knew how to do a lunar transfer and interplanetary flights but couldn't rendezvous with a vessel for the life of me
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Yeah, getting to things which have no gravity has always been the hardest for me. Rendezvousing with Phobos or Deimos is especially hard since it's hard to match velocities because Docking MFD can't target planets or moonsIt's the same with me too. Strange, isn't it? Congrats on your first docking flyingfish!![]()
Yes, +1 cookie and an internetz to you, sir.This one?
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Darren
{..}Rendezvousing with Phobos or Deimos is especially hard since it's hard to match velocities because Docking MFD can't target planets or moons.
There are ways around this. First of all, you simply can't orbit Phobos (even at low altitude) because its weak gravity is entirely dominated by the gravitational field Mars close by. Essentially you're orbiting Mars with the same orbital period as Phobos, and slightly perturbed eccentricity.
To make landing easier you can create a vessel and place it on the surface so you have something to target, or better yet, place a prelude base from Dan's DG4 addon so you actually have something to land on which can also be targeted with the docking MFD. :thumbup:
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I took that sreenshot at the same fly when I recognized that reentering on Venus isn't very hard.
Whoa... those are some amazing atmospheric effects... are you using any special parameters or horizon.dds textures, or is the photo simply edited?
Venus has always been one of my favorite planets/moons; the images from the landers are just amazing, deep red against orange-yellow with an extremely interesting haze.
I once edited the AR-18 to a cool interplanetary freighter (I mean really cool) and added the possibility to landeven on earth only with the Attitude thrusters. Than I made a kind of shuttle service between that three and the earth.
Just two days ago I launched a DGIV up from KSC to LEO, launched an Arrow to lunar orbit, transferred to lunar orbit with my DGIV, rendezvoused with teh Arrow, docked, and then flew to Phobos. After that the Arrow+DGIV rendezvoused with an Explorer in high Martian orbit.I find it more fun and realistic to leave the Arrow in LEO and shuttle people up to it with the XR2. Dock the XR2 and use it to explore the planet and moons once arriving.![]()