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Hello, anyone has any information on launch trajectory of the Tianwen-1 Mars Mission? Just initial ascent path to orbit is fine, thank you. -RODION

The Soyuz MS-10 launch experienced a booster (2nd stage didn't ignite or partial ignition I presume?) failure and did a ballistic trajectory. As of this writing the capsule is expecting to reenter and land in Siberia. RODION

I am still speechless. He IS my favorite astronaut. -RODION

Hi guys, just showing off my hand-painted Jupiter lamp This lamp depicts the multi-color bands of the Jovian atmosphere, as well as a few storms, including the Great Red Spot. It's not only a beautiful room or desk lamp, it's accurate enough to be used by educators to teach about the planet...

Is there any way to flatten user-made base runways so they don't undulate with the underlying terrain mesh? Thanks! EDIT: I just found about tileedit's "rudimentary capabilities for editing elevation data", but is there any other method? EDIT: Disregard this query, I found this thread...

Considering that the download size for the entire high resolution earth for Orbiter 2016 is really huge, I was wondering if there is a way to get surface tiles (and if possible, also the elevation data) specifically for a small area (around 500x500 km)? I need to make a video about a launch...

Is it possible to extract/export telemetry data from an Orbiter launch, and then somehow convert that to something that can be displayed in Google Earth, such as a KML file? Thanks.

Hi guys, I'm wondering if any of you has information on recent rumours about new Airbus/Safran Small Satellite launch platforms? Thanks!

In this shot, we see Don Pettit in the copula appearing to take snapshots of the Dragon on approach to the ISS... ...if you look closely, he appears to be holding the camera upside down. Any thoughts on this, or an actual "official NASA caption" or information link about why he is holding the...

I dug up an old teen novel about asteroid mining that I read back when I was in high school, and this perhaps also fueled my interest in space and space travel while growing up. I thought of searching for it and reading it again, with the recent news about asteroid mining going on. So here it...

I'm slowly getting back to my meshing (stretching the rusty skills again), and I decided that before I dive back into Brighton Base 2012, I'd do something related to my personal Taepodong Project back in 2010-2011. Here is a screenshot of the UNHA-3 (with hodgepodge launch tower) that I've...

Just out of the blue, while on a break from our gruelling tour (our firm goes from school to school with a huge truck that carries telescopes and an inflatable Planetarium dome, teaching Filipino kids about astronomy and spacef exploration), I came up with this...wrote it in 15 minutes LOL. Be...

Hi guys, I'm currently involved in a group that plans to exhibit Orbiter inside mini-domes (inflatable planetarium) or curved screens using LCD projectors. Is there any attempt here at an orbiter graphics engine that is suited for such displays? Thanks! -RODION

I've been browsing around OrbitHangar lately and I noticed that, apart from Greg Burch's neat (Orbital) Station Building Blocks, there seems to be no decent "surface base" building blocks equivalent, at least in quality of module mesh/textures. I am aware of the appeal of having the ability to...

Here is Brighton Beach 2011. I'm using a YouSendIt link, because for some reason, I can't upload via my Orbithangar account (come to think of it, this has never worked for me)--this link will only last until Tuesday, November 29, 2011, so if anyone can download this zip (13+ mb) and upload it to...

Hi all, I haven't been back in a while, and since now I'm sort of in-between jobs I decided to have a go again at making a simple add-on, this time yet-another-Brighton-Base (graphics/meshes) Upgrade. The reason behind this is I've been playing around with the XR series of spacecraft as of...

I was quite shocked when I found out about GE (Google Earth) Flight Simulator, a free flight simulator developed single-handedly by Dutch programmer Xavier Tassin (remind you of anything? :) ). I first found about it in an announcement over at Flightsim.com. Here's the link to that announcement...

I'm working on a project that autogenerates surnames for users of a moon mission simulation. I need a list of surnames of all astronauts (American, Russian, Chinese etc.). Is there a public database I can access (NOT text/html data, but I need a list like an Excel file, or some other...

Is there a simple HUD out there that monitors MAXQ values, that works for ANY vehicle on ascent into LEO? Thanks -RODION

My friend Christopher Go of Cebu City, Philippines, (the guy who discovered OvalBA's red shift, now known as Red Spot Jr.) emailed us this morning that, together with amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley of Australia, they observed an impact on Jupiter about 6 hours ago. Here is a video of the...