My Greatiest accomplishment in Orbiter!

[Kyle]

It took me a while, but heres what I did. I built a Space Station, each part using Velcro Rockets and 2 of them Space Shuttle Endeavour and Atlantis.

I launched Endeavour to a 28.5 Degree Orbit, then used Velcro rockets and attachment manager to Place together an IUS Rocket, and attach a Artemis Node on the End, then placed it in Endeavour's Payload and Launched, then deployed it and Ignited the First stage IUS Rocket for a TLI, then I sent it to the moon and sent it into a 300 KM Orbit.

I then Launched a Titan II with Fins via Velcro rockets and attachment manager, and Launched that also a 28.5 Degree orbit with the Columbus Addon, and went to the moon using a Delta 2 Stage 2 Rocket, then used LolaMFD to come and dock the Space Station.

Then, I assembled another IUS Rocket and attacked a Kibo JLP and a URMS to the end of it, and shot it off via Space Shuttle Atlantis, and send it to the moon with the two stage IUS Rocket, and I used the second stage for Course Corrections and LOI, and I used LolaMFD again to get to the two parts, then I Docked to the Space Station via Jets on the Upper Stage IUS rocket.

Later, I shot off a Delta III Rocket with a UmmuShuttlePB and with a Delta II Stage 2 Rocket part, shot it to the moon, but this time it was manned, and I then had a fully operational Space Station, orbiting the moon.

I used a Delta III Rocket, and attached a JEM inside, with an Upperstage IUS Booster, shot it off to the moon, used Lola MFD And Assembled my Space Station together.

Then, I shot off a MPLM to it aswell using a Delta II, and repeated the process aswell with the Finial Part, an MBS with a Small URMS


I wonder if anyone else has done this.

 

[Master of Blades]

I think my greatest accomplishment (so far) was done yesterday... I went from Earth, landed at Mars, took off, popped off to Saturn, deployed a Satellite in orbit around Saturn, then went to Titan and landed.

 

[astrosammy]

My greatest accomplishment was a flight to Saturn with landings and EVAs on every moon (But later I burned up in Saturn's atmosphere).

 

[henrik]

Mine was orbiting the moon with NASSP. I know it's not much and I've done more advanced stuff since, but at the time it was such a huge deal that it still remains the greatest in my book.

 

[Fizyk]

I think my greatest accomplishment was today. I took an XR1 to ISS, refueled, undocked, made an off-plane transfer to the Moon and landed in base named Gratata or something like that (an addon base). Tried changing my orbital plane and making an in-plane transfer earlier, but it required too much fuel and I couldn't land on the Moon then.
I have also made it to Triton once, but it was with a standard DG with unlimited fuel.

 

[ar81]

It is curious. I have created tools so people can build stations, I have barely managed to put 2 modules together...

Congrats. It is a great achievement.

 

[Kyle]

It is curious. I have created tools so people can build stations, I have barely managed to put 2 modules together...

Congrats. It is a great achievement.

Thanks, it was extremely hard to do, lots of getting off as well,
But I did it, and All with Limited Fuel. So much fun however.

 

[Master of Blades]

It is curious. I have created tools so people can build stations, I have barely managed to put 2 modules together...

Congrats. It is a great achievement.

Tools? Is there anything someone havn't told me here?:blink:

 

[Pilot7893]

My greatest achievment in Orbiter was a takeoff from Mars, deploying a sattelite into orbit, performing a close flyby of Phobos, performing a close flyby of Deimos, and crashing on final approach to the martian surface

 

[James.Denholm]

I think my greatest accomplishment (so far) was done yesterday... I went from Earth, landed at Mars, took off, popped off to Saturn, deployed a Satellite in orbit around Saturn, then went to Titan and landed.

Just out of curiosity, what was the launch dates? And you were using the DGIV, right?

 

[Piper]

Oh, I'm not sure about which is my greatest achievement in Orbiter. Probably my most complex and time-consuming thing I've done, is build my space station (The IOSS) mission by mission. I built a time-table for construction and even did the Soyuz, Progress, ATV, and CTV crew and resupply missions. Unfortunately my laptop that had a whole bunch of new modules that I was working on crashed and I never finished it (although I'm still proud of how much I did). But I'm also particularly proud of a quite few other things, namely traveling all the way out to Sedna, completing all the Apollo missions using NASSP, my Eris mission, but I've also always had a soft spot for old [ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=789"]Chapman[/ame] probe add-on, my first add-on for Orbiter.

 

[ryan]

I manually flew the Saturn V into orbit, did a manual PDI didnt land in the right place but, i also flew a space shuttle into the VAB, SRB and ET and all.

 

[MJR]

Mine was flying a full scale Apollo 11 mission and returning back to Earth.

 

[ryan]

I have meaning to do s0mething like that, just havnt g0tten ar0und t0 it, but i may do Ap0ll0 12,14,15 0r 16 n0t Ap0ll0 11 c0s n0thing really went 0n in Ap0ll0 11 just land and g0 h0me.

 

[MJR]

In Orbiter all of the Apollo missions are like that. In 15, 16, and 17 all you really do is fast-foward time to simulate about 2-3 days. But that is in Orbiter. In reality there is lots to do. I can't wait until I get the Ares program addon to start working so I can get to Mars and hopefully get back.

 

[Danny Ramone]

My greatest acheivement is getting onto the same plane as the ISS fisrt go (without having to do any correctional burns) Bare in mind i have actually opened orbiter less than a dozen times.

 

[Tex]

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Thats great! I once launched from the Cape and (by luck) timed it perfectly in the DG when I flew into orbit and shut down main engines I was within visual range of ISS with my plane aligned. I simply translated over to ISS and docked before I was even half way across the globe.

 

[Linguofreak]

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Thats great! I once launched from the Cape and (by luck) timed it perfectly in the DG when I flew into orbit and shut down main engines I was within visual range of ISS with my plane aligned. I simply translated over to ISS and docked before I was even half way across the globe.

Flytandem has a technique for doing that on purpose.

I tried that and that's what got me interested in performing various kinds of maneuvers to 100 meter-ish precision. Generally all you need is TransX to arrange your orbital intersection, the docking HUD to get the right direction for your orbit-matching burn, and then BurnTimeMFD to figure out what distance to start your burn at. What I consider my crowning achievement is ending at least one interplanetary trip within a few hundred meters of my target station. Launching from a planetary surface directly to a station is probably harder though, considering that it involves timing your lift-off right.

 

[Danny Ramone]

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Thats great! I once launched from the Cape and (by luck) timed it perfectly in the DG when I flew into orbit and shut down main engines I was within visual range of ISS with my plane aligned. I simply translated over to ISS and docked before I was even half way across the globe.

Thats what I need as I am still having major issues with sync orbit, i cannot seem to do a catch up burn without my apogee growing to astronomical proportions, maybe shorter burns are whats needed.

anyway back on topic....

 

[Linguofreak]

Thats what I need as I am still having major issues with sync orbit, i cannot seem to do a catch up burn without my apogee growing to astronomical proportions, maybe shorter burns are whats needed.

anyway back on topic....

Actually, if you're very far behind the ISS at all (more than a few km) and need to catch up, you need to burn *away* from the ISS (retrograde) to lower your perigee.