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Hit an unexpectedly large wave while bringing the capsule back to the mainland. Not sure when we will be back...the GoSearcher has boldly gone...

That's great information Donamy. Sounds like the Phase Burn was the Align Planes maneuver. Sorry Brian I didn't even get what you were saying when you showed the different MFDs comparing ground track to orbital plane. I now need to Google "ground track vs orbital plane" because that's all new...

Hi Brian, yes your first screenshot is what I get. But now I'm really confused. Aren't we supposed to wait till the target track is over the launch site in order to make for the most efficient rendezvous? If I launch at the official launch time of the scenario, my plane is not aligned with...

Thanks Insanity. Understand that and I have done that. I've successfully rendezvoused with the ISS in my little Dragon capsules a few times now. I'm just trying to work out why in the scenario for the 307th the ISS is where it is supposed to be but in the one for the 27th it's not. I'm...

I know about the track. That’s what I’m saying; in the scenario for the 27th, copied directly from your post, the track for the ISS does not pass over KSC. I just mentioned the fact that the ISS is over Turkey to add further information. If I can work out how to insert a screen shot I’ll...

Thanks for that Brian but I'm definitely using your original scenario without changing the MJD date. Date and Time in top left corner say 27th May 20:30:40 2020. I DID try using your original scenario and changing the Date first though. And then I went back and re-copied and pasted your...

Hi Brian, I used your DM2 scenario but the ISS is way off. None of the three ground tracks go anywhere near KSC and the ISS itself is over Turkey at launch time . I can't understand why since your Scenario includes the orbital elements of what the ISS was on the 27th May. Could it be my...

Yeah a fresh install (but into a folder with the same name as the old install with the old install still there in a renamed folder) Perhaps I have to install to to a default location? It seemed to work the first time I installed it and displayed the Launchpad but I closed it down after that...

Thought there would already be a post about this but couldn't find one. Does Orbiter 2010 work with Windows 8? Mine doesn't, it just crashes when it tries to load the Launchpad. I can run it in Windows XP compatibility mode. Just wonder if it should run in Win 8 natively?

NASA takes too long to develop anything to a usable stage. I hope Virgin and the other private entrepreneurs can do something to open the whole thing up. Even the tests they do on Earth to extricate Spirit from it's sand trap take forever!!! Move rovers wheels 5 rotations and spend the rest...

thanks. Checked that and it 'appears' to be ok but I'm not that familiar with Vista's way of setting time zone. That is what I thought too, that it must think I'm in a different time zone (though the local time on the task bar is correct). We bought and originally set up the laptop in the US...

thanks TS. I did try that but get the same result. My current local time is 11:40am but Orbiter thinks it's 19:40 UT and is rendering it as night time. not sure what the prob could be. either Orbiter is incorrectly calculating UT or somehow it is misreading Vista's clock I think

ahh Fractint! i loved that program!

Hi guys, long time since I've been in the Orbiter Forums. I have recently installed Orbiter on a Vista machine and I have created a custom scenario that I wanted to always be real time so I set Date MJD ; However when I enter the scenario, the UT time is 8 hours into the future from now. My...