Recent content by santy86

The Obama administration sometimes acts in a funny way. They cancelled Ares V, a couple of years ago, later have approved SLS, which is essentially Ares V with a Saturn V painting scheme. Why to cancel Ares V from the beginning then?? :facepalm:

Because the soviet union collapsed and the resulting economical crash, stopped the Energia-Buran program altogether. Even Energia, today would have to be redesigned from scratch probably with new construction materials and new technologies/computers/hydraulics and so forth. The original Energia...

I'll relieve you now :lol: Don't get me wrong dude, no conspiracy theories here. Though the fact that there has been space-tech espionage from various country, aimed especially against US companies (Lockheed Martin and Boeing) but also against russia, is undeniable. I'm referring to the various...

I think the russian space program (future launcher and spacecraft(s)) is being developed in secret (something similar is happening for the USAF X-37A/B/C) probably they are worried of possible sabotages and/or espionage.

The glowing nozzles are really nice :thumbup:

Looking at the screenshots, you may even add 2 additional boosters to increase Payload capacity.:hailprobe:

The 3d model is really gorgeous!

Cool add-on. Don't forget to use the Orbiter 2010 SDK to avoid compatibility problems :cheers:

Spacecraft2 is doomed, unless Vinka magically reappears

Hi, I read recently about a quite interesting approach to SSTO, the AVATAR being developed by ISRO. Maybe the idea of an aerobic vehicle which separates oxygen from the air and stores it for later usage could be used for any other type of vehicle as well, not limiting this principle only to the...

If you want to keep using only "Multistage2", you may do that by defining stages instead of boosters. This means they will not burn in parallel, but i guess you can trick it by having 3 engines as 1st stage (with proper coordinates for the exhaust) that burn for the whole Booster burn time. The...

If the filename of the mesh and the filename of the DLL are the same as in the previous version, that booster will work for sure :yes:

I don't think the side-mount HLV is supposed to be loaded by the RSS. I cannot imagine how the RSS will be used to mount those long fairings around the payload... maybe i'm wrong.

I suppose it is per thruster. That would work well on the EDS. As you said before 980N is not enough. About the lander I don't know, but you could test it with some values by putting the lander on the moon or in moon's orbit.

RoCS thrust is 625 lbf That's about 2780 Newtons http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/315427main_feb2709_wkly_summary.pdf