Recent content by StargazerBranden

The ones that read and reply to my multitude of questions on here (Lol) you all know that I have extensively been doing shuttle related ops and all of my questions are shuttle related. I have two questions this time regarding Attitude MFD. (I primarily use Velocity and Target Relative modes)...

jroly, what about a 460 GTX. I know they are a little on the aged side in terms of technology but it'll run FSX at 60 fps (so I'm told... This is hearsay)

Ripley: Check the site. That's the quote directly from the Probe (martins) himself!! :hailprobe: Artlav: Unfortunately yes, pretty much! That's 2005/2006 hardware. I can barely run Microsoft Flight Simulator 9 at 20 fps. Sid Meier's Civilization 5, forget it! Silent Hunter 4, works okay. Silent...

Okay techies. In the red corner weighing in at AWESOME, we have the long awaited, highly anticipated Orbiter 2016. In the blue corner, we have a DIY computer weighing in with an Intel BadAxe II mobo, Intel Core II Duo 3.3 GHz processor, 16 gigs DDR2 RAM, and an NVidia GTX 260 GPU. It runs 2010p1...

Thanks, boogabooga, I'll double check that when I get home from work this evening. Been looking in the SF docs left and right but I bet I skimmed right by it. You know how when you're looking for something so hard and its right in front of your face but you'll miss it 5 times before you finally...

I've done a fairly extensive search of the forum and have found a plethora of information regarding the default Atlantis. The tutorial Space Shuttle to ISS gives a pitch up value of 15 degrees. But in the threads I have read the figure I seem to come across is 13.5 degrees pitch. Using both...

I know there are several methods of rotating the argument of periapsis due to laws of Kepler Orbit/Newtonian physics. Apply prograde thrust when your mean anomaly equals 90 or 270 degrees, burn when your target is at apogee/apoapsis, or circularize your orbit at perigee, null out eccentricity...

Having a heck of a time getting ORBTGT to work. I get to about 76 km away, .5 km below at ApA, and about 15km PeA, and am getting huge deltaV values. 600 to 700 feet per second. Any ideas?

Thanks for that information! Now I'm down to just playing around with altitudes to get my NCC burn with ORBTGT MFD correct and not have massive deltaV

Clive, does that work on the opposite node as well? Input 139.2 launch azimuth for a southerly launch. I would assume so and can always check it.

In regards to what indy91 told me there, and going off what information you gave, Thorsten, and going off of some NASA rendezvous ops documentation that I found, here's what I'm going to try tonight. I'm going to launch, circularize, and align planes and align argument of perigee. Then...

Okay, guys. First off, thanks to everyone's input on our little Algonquin Round-Table discussion relating to Shuttle launches. Huge help. Now on to the next astrophysical engineering discussion. This one relates to rendezvous. The scenario is STS-71. Shuttle Atlantis docks with Soviet...

Thorsten, very informative! Thank you for that. It has to be an autopilot error. My azimuth math that I computed out by pen, paper, and calculator checks out against both the DGIV built in calculator and Space Calculator Version 2 so I think it is a limitation of the shuttle fleet autopilot as...

UPDATE 2: Got time to intersection on launch MFD down to zero at MECO and I am left with a RInc of 2.34 degrees. Bye bye OMS fuel! So... All that and still nowhere. I'm going to scour the internet for some official NASA documentation for calculating launch times. There HAS to be something. A...

DaveS, Thank you for pointing out my error. I meant to say OMS-1 but typed it out as only OMS. As for launch time vs ascent profile I have tried liftoff at 510 seconds to node still with RInc > 1 degree. However, I have not fully tested this out. What I mean is that I have launched at Tn =...