Orbiter Screenshot Thread

[DaveS]

Atlantis about to enter orbital night on her third orbit after returning to active service after 2-year long Orbiter Maintenance Down Period (OMDP), the second-to-last one for the Boeing-North American (BNA) team at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif. Mission is STS-101 and was a beast to get off the ground due weather and waiting out an Atlas IIA with GOES-L/11 that had booked a slot on the Eastern Range ahead of it.

STS-101 was notable for being first mission of an orbiter outfitted with the Multifunctional Electronic Display Subsystem (MEDS) or "glass cockpit". The other three orbiters still sported the original Multifunctional CRT Display Subsystem (MCDS).

 

[Matias Saibene]

Starship (orbital version) 10km "hop" flight test landing stop-frame ;-)
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Safe mode. No Michael Bay here. Well done.

 

[Matias Saibene]

I just realized that the sounds of the other ships can now be heard without being selected. Thank you XRSound team, OrbiterSound and other developers!







Single-stage-to-orbit-carrier-and-launch-vehicle intensifies

 

[1987VCRProductions]

It's been awhile since I've been taking screenshots. I've been jumping back and forth a decade between Orbiter 2016 and Orbiter 2006.



Orbiter 2016 - Apollo 16 - John Young stands on Stone Mountain looking back towards the landing site.



Orbiter 2006 - Gemini 11 - I replicated the M=1 rendezvous of Gemini 11, reconstructing the flight based on information I was able to glean from period documents. Flown by the book, Agena is in a circular 297 km orbit, Gemini 11 starts in a 160 km by 280 km orbit 395km behind the Agena, TPI occurs 90 seconds before the first apogee, rendezvous occurs over the Pacific between Hawaii and California.

Here's the record high apogee of 1,373 km:



The next mission I perfected was Gemini 10, this one was considerably harder to do because of the complexity of the double rendezvous but I think I got a close enough facsimile:



The late Mike Collins at the inert Agena from Gemini 8. I got rendezvous with the inert Agena within an orbit of the actual mission, all in all retrofire on the last orbit was only off by a few minutes, so I think I can be fairly satisfied with this simulation.

 

[Matias Saibene]

The Pictown city working perfectly in Orbiter 2016. Well I think technically there is nothing to stop it from working, but I missed it anyway...




Oh the legendary Arrow Freighter! I really miss the Arrow Freighter and UCGO.

MediaFire disabled forum links, so here are the other screenshots:
https://www.mediafire.com/view/ed8et8eblm0wr7g/2021-05-15_21_52_26-Orbiter_2016_%5BD3D9Client%5D.png/file
https://www.mediafire.com/view/owceed439mk9ur1/2021-05-15_21_53_15-Orbiter_2016_%5BD3D9Client%5D.png/file

 

[MarkWatney2015]

Soviet sunrise....

 

[Mr. Residuals]

Just randomly wanted to post something, but here's a random Dragon Capsule on a Falcon Heavy after launch. Note, I do not know how to fix the item I (badly) boxed in red. I have no idea how to fix it, anybody got any ideas.

EDIT: I also have the Falcon Heavy DRG thing.

 

[MarkWatney2015]

The Salyut/Almaz space station family (including Mir and Zvezda) to scale....

 

[Mr. Residuals]

Falcon Heavy with Dragon lifting off (After I fixed the issue I mentioned on post #7,989).

 

[francisdrake]

Falcon Heavy with Dragon lifting off (After I fixed the issue

Could you briefly explain how you fixed the issue with the FH upperstage for the Dragon?
I tried to replace the FH9_drg with the standard FH9 (with the normal upper stage), but had errors after that.

 

[Mr. Residuals]

Could you briefly explain how you fixed the issue with the FH upperstage for the Dragon?
I tried to replace the FH9_drg with the standard FH9 (with the normal upper stage), but had errors after that.

Okay, so I first downloaded the "Crew Dragon for Orbiter 2016" mod (not DM2 since I alrready have that, but get it if you want to add it to your falcon heavy). Then I extracted everything, then went to the Falcon Heavy scn (on notepad) in senarios. I added the Dragon DM2 Capsule (or any Crew Dragon Capsule that isn't the original 1 in the mod), but I see what the parachutes are open. So, I then copy what ever is under the Dragon DM2 Capsule (in another mod or any mod that includes the DM2 like dragon) then past it under the Dragon capsule I have.

 

[Mr. Residuals]

Okay, so I first downloaded the "Crew Dragon for Orbiter 2016" mod (not DM2 since I alrready have that, but get it if you want to add it to your falcon heavy). Then I extracted everything, then went to the Falcon Heavy scn (on notepad) in senarios. I added the Dragon DM2 Capsule (or any Crew Dragon Capsule that isn't the original 1 in the mod), but I see what the parachutes are open. So, I then copy what ever is under the Dragon DM2 Capsule (in another mod or any mod that includes the DM2 like dragon) then past it under the Dragon capsule I have.

The short version: First get the "Crew Dragon for Orbiter 2016" mod and extract that. Then, if you don't have it, download BrainJ's DM2 mod. Then, go into the scn folder of the "Crew Dragon for Orbiter 2016 mod" look for the Falcon Heavy launch scn. Then past the DM2 capsule into it. If the parachutes open copy everything that is under the capsule name (e.g. Endeavor), but don't copy anything else besides what's under the capsule name.

 

[Kyle]

Falcon Heavy with Dragon lifting off (After I fixed the issue I mentioned on post #7,989).
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Seeing the NASA worm on a Falcon Heavy launch would be epic.

 

[Arvil]

The Salyut/Almaz space station family (including Mir and Zvezda) to scale....
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@Garguantua2024: Tell me you actually flew them from the ground into that formation in the scenario. ???That would be just awesome.

 

[MarkWatney2015]

@Garguantua2024: Tell me you actually flew them from the ground into that formation in the scenario. ???That would be just awesome.

Unfortunately no...I just compiled all their meshes in one VesselBuilder configuration out of fun

So basically they're just static meshes in space

 

[Mr. Residuals]

Seeing the NASA worm on a Falcon Heavy launch would be epic.

True.

 

[Arvil]

Kinda figured that, but formation flying woulda been neat, but too much danger of collision as they could be on converging orbits, and woulda been difficult to remote fly all at the same time.

 

[Mr. Residuals]

Kinda figured that, but formation flying woulda been neat, but too much danger of collision as they could be on converging orbits, and woulda been difficult to remote fly all at the same time.

I probably may try that out tomorrow, but not sure how I'm going to get Pad 39B to have the same SpaceX pad at 39A.

 

[Matias Saibene]

The Arrow Freighter in all its glory. Orbiter 2010 + D3D9 Client + SolarLiner's ENB Series for Orbiter D3D9.

 

[Owenmck]

The Arrow Freighter in all its glory. Orbiter 2010 + D3D9 Client + SolarLiner's ENB Series for Orbiter D3D9.
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Not played my 2010 install for a while, forgot how beautiful the Arrow is. It would be so amazing to have this in the 2016 version