Project Space Transportation System 2016

[gattispilot]

I think the DM docking may be wrong.

this seems to be better

Technically there should be hatches on both ends. Not sure what they would look like.

 

[gattispilot]

I think the dm size maybe wrong.

All we know is length from tip is 15.4 ft (4.69392M) and 7.2 ft (2.19456M) diameter.

the cube on the left are those dimensions.

The right side cutasway matches the cube

 

[gattispilot]

redid the DM

I need to add the solar panels. Also I think the camera and light need to be a separate vessel. In STS 76 the camera and light were removed. MEEP x 4 reinstalled on the handrails.

 

[gattispilot]

Redid the DM. Since the Dock is 30 degrees off. I wonder if the docking target should be 30 degrees off? It have it a 45 degrees now

This from sts 86. You see the docking target and the red scuff pads

Not sure about the solar panel attachments.

 

[gattispilot]

Found this:

They mount to the ribs. I wish we had the size of these

Info on the GAS containers. But they only give CU FT for the size. I wish width or height was given.

 

[gattispilot]

STs 86 DM. So there are 2 docking targets. Notice the docking target on the hatch. redid the DM.

Looking at the solar arrays. They are different.

 

[gattispilot]

New orange:

Realoly the docking module should be a vessel by itself. The solar panels as vessels that attach. The camera as a vessel. Because things were detach.

 

[gattispilot]

Here she is docked. Not sure about the alignment of the docking targets

EVA here I think the MEEP would be mounted

Here is a screenshot of the MEEP locations

 

[gattispilot]

I think I may add this feature. Like the bridge rails. add a line for keel fitting. That way the one thing the payload needs is the side trunnions the bridge rails would be there and keel. Technically the add on would need to keel part that slides.

 

[gattispilot]

So here the DM is docked. This is the docing camera view.

and from the DM port where the shuttle would dock

The docking target on the hatch seems right. but the camera view seem off?

 

[gattispilot]

sTS 74 AND DM

READY FOR DOCK

Docked with the MIR

 

[gattispilot]

I had to redo the spacelab. This is it for sts 71.

 

[gattispilot]

STS 76. Shuttle and DM docked to MIR. 4 MEEP's were attached to the rails of the docking Module. They were retrived in STS 86

 

[gattispilot]

More of STS 76

EVA approaches MEEP2

EVA graps the MEEP

Approaches correct attachment for MEEP2

attaches and opens MEEP2


The one thing I can decide on is the emmissive values. In real they should not glow unless they did. But it makes it easier to see.

 

[gattispilot]

Looking at STS 88
Not sure which unity module to use.
ISSR unity

and ISS HD unity

On the ISSR it seems the trunnions are not parallel. It seems the ISS_HD is missing the Unity name

 

[gattispilot]

Is there a way to tell where the MIR or ISS was on a certain date?

Here is STS76 into orbit. But how to set the MIR at the correct location for this time?

 

[MaxBuzz]

orbital elements of the Mir station
(I have long met information that for the Shuttle-Mir program the Shuttle boosters have been modified i will try to find again

Mir - Orbit Data

web.archive.org

 

[Gargantua2024]

Celestrak also archives TLE data for both Mir and the ISS

 

[gattispilot]

Celestrak also archives TLE data for both Mir and the ISS

Not sure how to use the data

 

[gattispilot]

So still not figure out how to use the TLE info. I guess when entered it gets the orbits. And set the MJD and it should be where is was?