Recent content by rodion_herrera

SpaceEngine version. I took out the clouds so I can see more of the land area. The encircled islands is my country, the Philippines.

I wish I had a larger monitor (btw thanks to the guy who did the SCN with the TLE, saved me a lot of time to do this).

I used to work as a planetarium lecturer for over 5 years. I know my way around space LOL

I didn't use spacecraft mode, I used planetarium mode and just manually moved the camera around LOL

Did a comparison of that recent earth shot (the overexposed one) with Orbiter and Space Engine, to identify stars/planets. Of course, I knew that was Venus. But just FYI from the perspective of Orion, the earth at that moment was eclipsing the Constellations Aquarius, Pegasus, and Cetus. The...

Oi is that you Urwumpe? What happened to your old account?

Haven't been back here in a while. Just saying hi. -RODION

Awesome news! Not really a programmer here, but as someone who has followed Orbiter's development/evolution for over 20 years, this is just fantastic news! Thank you Martin! -RODION

Hello, anyone has any information on launch trajectory of the Tianwen-1 Mars Mission? Just initial ascent path to orbit is fine, thank you. -RODION

Can these things be used for Orbiter nowadays?

Landing Site Location, and current position of lander and YUTU-2 Took a while to figure this out, but I did. I finally located the *exact* landing spot of Chang'e-4, after analyzing the recently released landing video. The image below is taken from the LROC WMS site, using using higher...

Replay of Rocket Lab Electron launch, November 11, 2018.

https://sputniknews.com/world/201810111068785038-accident-soyuz/ "According to preliminary data, the Soyuz accident occurred because one of the four first stage units hit the second stage and pressure dropped, the source reported." Anyone else confirm this from another source?

Also, note that the stack was teetering/swaying a little prior to 1st stage sep.