Recent content by TaylorR137

I totally understand. KSP-like is exactly what I'm looking for, but with perhaps some engineering and trajectory help as well during the design phase (e.g. payload estimates, launch windows). Its a big project and would ideally be a fully integrated part of the Orbiter interface. Hopefully that...

Artlav, Thank you for developing Orbiter Shipyard. Its disappointing to hear the project does't have a future and I was wondering if you would consider making it open source.

http://mars-one.com/ Announced today, this groups plan aims to send people to Mars on one way trips with the first people arriving in 2023. The idea is to use SpaceX and other commercial hardware, and fund the venture by turning the astronauts lives into a reality TV show. They have "letters of...

Indeed. In Orbiter the first stage gains velocity and altitude much quicker, my guess is this is because the autopilot applies full thrust the entire time. Here is the data taken from listening to the chatter on this video: SPACEX LAUNCHES DEMONSTRATION FLIGHT TOWARDS ISS - YouTube 0:00...

Whether or not Planetary Resources (PR) is a farce, it would still be interesting to use Orbiter as a tool for studying feasibility of proposed missions. I'm of the opinion that in-situ resource utilization is key for a manned Mars exploration program. Coding up the necessary ad-ons might be...

There are a lot of really interesting questions in this thread on technical and economic feasibility. This is exactly why I've been learning orbiter over the last few weeks; to use it as a tool for evaluating mission profiles for a student project I'm working on. May I suggest we post links to...

I'm somewhat surprised; I just skimmed the index of Peter Diamandis' recent book Abundance and didn't find any reference of mining. I'd be inclined to bet that the first resources they go after are relevant to the venture of space exploration itself, for example making fuel on the surface of...

http://www.space.com/15220-spacex-rockets-texas-launch-site.html Looks like you called it on the Texas launch site.