General Question Glitch or atmosphere ???

[Constellation-75]

Hi, Since i had Orbiter 2006, I vae to re discover almost evrything.

But one of my biggest surprise was during a X1000 time warp with the space shuttle at an altitude of 275 fm approx... While orbiting, the attitude of the shuttle change by itself. like if the shuttle was actually hitting the atmosphere, but at 270 km !!!!!

Why this strange thing ?? A more realistic atmosphere ? or a simple glitch ??? Because with amso, everything is running smoothly, with ni improper attitude change, even on the parking orbit (180 km altitude...) And I don't think that at an altitude od 270 km, the atmosphere is thick enough to make the space shuttle or an other vessel "moove"...

 

[Tschachim]

While orbiting, the attitude of the shuttle change by itself.

Gravity-gradient torque? You can disable it on the Parameter tab of Orbiter's Launchpad.

Cheers
Tschachim

 

[orb]

Orbiter 2010 uses different atmospheric model for Earth than Orbiter 2006, and Earth's atmosphere doesn't end on 200 km altitude, but you can change it back to the model from Orbiter 2006, or limit the atmosphere cut-off altitude in "Config/Earth.cfg" file.

Check if you change "Atmosphere model" of Earth in "Orbiter Launchpad > 'Extra' tab> Celestial body configuration > Atmosphere Configuration" to "Orbiter 2006 Legacy Model", will it work for you like before, in Orbiter 2006.

A simple static atmosphere model. This model was used in Orbiter 2006. Id underestimates atmospheric density and pressure above ~120km and terminates at 200km, which simplifies orbit-keeping for LEO objects.

 

[Constellation-75]

Oh OK thanks. This feature is great, but it can kill your ISS during a flight to venus.....

 

[Urwumpe]

Oh OK thanks. This feature is great, but it can kill your ISS during a flight to venus.....

Why don't you then do ISS reboosts every third month?

 

[Moach]

could there not be an addon to make an auto-reboosting ISS?... or would that be about as pointless as it sounds?

 

[RisingFury]

Actually it's a good idea. But I'd go with a module that keeps the orbits of all vessels from decaying at high time compression, instead of just a MFD for ISS

 

[Urwumpe]

Why miss the fun and do a reboost mission with a DG from time to time...

 

[RisingFury]

Why miss the fun and do a reboost mission with a DG from time to time...

...because you don't always want to have the fun of reboosting your stations?

 

[Urwumpe]

...because you don't always want to have the fun of reboosting your stations?

Details. :lol::thumbup: