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"On Tuesday September 20 2011 the Canadian Air & Space Museum was handed a notice of eviction by its landlords, the Crown Corporation Parc Downsview Park. The locks were immediately changed and the Museum was essentially closed with no notice. The building, which has been recognized as a Federal...

Would it be possible to see the disk of Venus with the naked eye during a transit while the Sun is on the horizon?

When I am orbiting Venus in Orbiter (of course:lol:) I can see the Earth and the Moon as two distinctive dots. What I am wondering is: Could you resolve the Earth and the Moon as two distinctive Entities from Venus? (from above the clouds) If so, how many arc-seconds would they be apart from...

I was trying to install orbiter 2010 onto my laptop, but it had an error and would't let me finish the installation. So I installed Orbiter 2010 on my desktop, then I copied the files onto a memory drive and put the files on my laptop. I tried to start up orbiter, but this came up: Where...

When I have to spacecraft docked together, and I try to put one spacecraft into an auto pilot, both ships start wobbling and swinging. I know that this has to do with the Centre of Gravity and is normal. Is there anyway that I can negate these effects if, for example, I wanted to take a...

Iv'e been trying to find the Mars l10 Textures buy Steph Eden, but it appears that that part of his website that has it, is down. Iv'e tried looking around the internet, but I can't find this addon anywhere. Does anyone here know where I could get it from?

Why do some space-probes, like the Dawn have solar panels while others, like New Horizons don't?

I'm wondering if anyone can give me some advice on this. I tried starting the "Station" scenario from the add-on "Space Station Building Blocks 4.1B" but it causes a CTD. I looked at the orbiter log, but I can't figure out what mesh I need. **** Orbiter.log Build Sep 29 2006 [v.060929] Found 0...