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    Flight Question DG to ISS sync orbit help

    I'm having trouble syncing orbit in the DG to ISS Checklist Mission 1. How can i bring the DTmin time to 0.00 without gaining ALT. When i get the DTmin in SH Periapsis down to zero my ALT rises and when i do intercept the ISS i'm too far to make a dock because of the ALT difference, when i burn...
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    Flight Question DG to ISS Mission 1, sync orbit help

    I'm not sure how that helped tex but it worked, i think all i needed to do was a burn at the rendevous point and drop the DTmin to as close to 0 as possible while in SH Apoapsis and it worked. I got my first glimps of the ISS and at the moment is within 60k of it. Closest i've even been. So now...
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    Flight Question DG to ISS Mission 1, sync orbit help

    Ok i've successfully made it to stable orbit, got my PER to match my APR around 6.731 give or take, aligned my orbit with that of the ISS to within Rinc 0.05 (0.02 to be exact). And this is where i get stuck, in Sync orbit, trying to match my SH-TOR with the TG-TOR and get the time at which the...
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    Flight Question Cant deorbit after successful orbit insertion.

    On the quickstart glider mission. ( 5.0 Quickstart in the manual) I can takeoff and make it into a stable orbit no problem. But when i try to do a reentry (deorbit) i always crash but it seems like i never even make it through the atmosphere. edit: nevermind, i think i'm just reentering...
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    Keyboard problem: Can Orbiter be used on a laptop with no numeric keypad?

    Orbiter laptop controls Enable numlock, use + and - for accel and decel, NOT above the = key but the one next to left shift. And i believe pitch, roll, yaw, etc is u,i,o,j,k,8,l etc. For accel(thrust) its better to press f1 and go into cockpit view and enable thrusters using the stick...
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