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Mainly a question for those working on the OFSS II since so many of the missions use it, but open to anyone else who flies v4.7 (for which autofcs doesn't work). I attempted to use aerobrake yesterday and had it go pretty wonky on me, with the course prediction wildly jumping all over the...

I moved into a new house recently and I've been trying to implement ways to recycle my gray water using methods that aren't hi-tech and/or expensive to install. I've got one sink drain rigged up to a filter and draining into one of those 5 gallon arrowhead bottles, which I then load onto a...

I've started experimenting with the MER addon, and the possibility of carrying the missions out "by the numbers" excites me. When I launch Spirit at the appropriate time, manually correct its escape inclination down to 0 degrees, and let the autopilot handle all of the ejection burn, I still...

I was just reading the wikipedia entry on Iapetus and it turns out it's got some really exotic terrain: craters with sheer cliff walls 15km high, and a large ridge like a mountain range that runs almost exactly around its equator. Has anyone considered making an orulex heightmap using the data...

Hey all, I was messing around in orbit tonight and I tried lowering the pressure in the DGIV cockpit to 0 and then opening the canopy, and it was still destroyed. Does anyone know why that is, and if there's any way to make this work. Perhaps the temperature setting has something to do with it?

Is there any way to change how much of the instrument panel is shown in the 2D mode? Or is this strictly a function of the resolution that the sim is run at?

Hey all, Just wondering: if you go to the AMSO developer's website you can download a PDF document that's entirely in French, that seems to detail many flight plans from the Apollo program. It looks like there are many helpful trajectory diagrams and so forth. here's the link to the document I...

Having worked with the simulation for a few months now, and having tried several different combinations of add-ons, it occurs to me that other people out there must also be keeping several seperate Orbiter installations for various different tasks. I've settled into a few. One with all the...

Hey all, I tried installing Seth Eden's Mars lvl10 this weekend after having a lot of luck with his Earth lvl10, but the Mars addon doesn't seem to be engaging. I did edit the max visual texture overlay line in the mars.cfg file to 10 instead of 8, but Mars still doesn't look any different than...

So, for most of today I've been trying to launch Atlantis from Canaveral and meet up with ISS. I finally did it, but not nearly as cleanly as I would like. The latest in a string of puzzles ive encountered is that whenever I burn prograde or retrograde at my Pe or Ap, both of those positions...

Hey everbody, I spent a solid 90 minutes right now working and reworking these addon installs with the (fairly) simple goal of rigging up some hi res shuttle launchpads on a hi res version of KSC. I had various levels of crashing, but could never get it all to work together. I know that, for...

This guy at my work told me this morning that he uses his Ham radio to talk to the space shuttle. Is he definitely a liar?

Hey all, Last night I had a weird experience where after I got up around 75k, i was trying to use OrbitMFD to stablize my orbit, and when I clicked PRJ to get it focused on the ship, the whole MFD froze. if I turned them off and then back on, I could get them working again, but they would...

Hey all, I was taking a 'tour' of the system last night, centering the camera on different things, when i noticed that the sun doesn't seem to be a three dimensional sphere like the planets are. Am I right about this? Does it change appearance if you fly close enough to it? If not, is there any...

from the Mars wikipedia entry: "On August 27, 2003, at 9:51:13 UT, Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years: 55,758,006 km (0.372719 AU)." If I plug that date into Orbiter, will Mars be in that position? Has anyone checked this out?

Hey all, I was making a routine climb into orbit last night to try and tackle the Earth to Mars tutorial in Go Play In Space. I was climbing along a heading of about 42 degrees. For most of the flight my pitch was higher than the recommended 30 degrees, at some point in the climb my VV started...

Hey all, Sorry if this is a repost (almost certainly it is) but I'm a new member and it's said that my account will be deleted if I don't post something on day one, so here goes. I've succeeded in travelling to the moon with transfer, but when I point it towards something farther off like...