More progress...
The first succesful test flight of my as yet unnamed Apollo project.
Combined spacecraft, CSM, SLA, and LES on the pad, with a [ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=5846"]Spider Lunar Lander *Beta v2.3*[/ame] is attached as payload. For the moment I'm forced to use Glider's excellent [ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=5442"]SpaceX Launch Vehicles[/ame] as a stand in for the Saturn V.
LIFTOFF!!!
First stage and Launch Escape System seperation. LES Jettison is not yet animated, it's mesh and and more importantly it's mass are simply deleted once specified altitude/velocity parameters have been met.
Second stage burnout, 300 km parking orbit established.
Trans-Lunar Injection.
CSM / LV seperation, the Spider is now clearly visible.
Transposition and docking
LM extraction
Mid-course correction burn
Aproaching Luna
Lunar orbit injection
Combined spacecraft safely established in 180 km lunar parking orbit. Mission test objectives completed.
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Playing around a bit with IMS now that my machine is running again, designs both feature Hlynkacg's transhab.
Mars vehicle loosely inspired by one of Ernst Stuhlinger's designs
Fusion rocket "threading the needle" between Saturn and the innermost rings on a polar transfer orbit.
I recognize some of those components. :thumbup: