LRO / LCROSS

[BrianJ]

Is the remaining dV in the Centaur supposed to go below 50m/s after the spin-purge, because it is at 43m/s now and dropping slowly.

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Even though it says "Spin/Purge finished"

2552, you have a problem! Try shutting down the main engine by pressing numpad * and turn off any autopilots (prograde/retrograde/etc).

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

WOW!!!

I just tried it - AWESOME add-on guys!

This will keep me entertained for a few days!

 

[2552]

OK, I restarted from a pre-TLI quicksave and re-did the TLI, jettisonned LRO, then set the time to Now, which has LRO at an altitude of 20,000km. I'll wait until after that targetting burn to do the spin/purge and see if that happens again.

 

[2552]

OK, I did the correction burn, then the spin/purge. It stopped at 50.02m/s!

 

[BrianJ]

WOW!!!

I just tried it - AWESOME add-on guys!

This will keep me entertained for a few days!

Brian,
Another home run, right out of the park!!! Well done

On behalf of me and Chris, thanks! Hope you have some fun with it. We've put in a good few hours on this one, and learned an awful lot about the mission in the process.

PS the real fun starts when you try to put three spacecraft (LRO/LCROSS/Centaur) in one place (Cabeus, Moon S.Pole) at the same time (so that it's visible from Hawaii/USA West Coast). Good luck!

Time to get some kip.
Regards,
Brian

 

[Voyager_VI]

Well done to Chris as well!!! Hope you two decide to keep working on the upcoming Atlas V missions

 

[tblaxland]

O-F Staff note:

This thread has been cleaned up and non-development posts moved to the News and Updates thread. Please keep this thread to discussing the LRO/LCROSS addon development.

 

[Wishbone]

Has anyone here succeeded in replicating the LRO/LCROSS mission under 2010-P1 (http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3687)?

 

[tblaxland]

Has anyone here succeeded in replicating the LRO/LCROSS mission under 2010-P1 (http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=3687)?

Yes, see further upthread. In particular, this post by the author BrianJ: http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?p=100953#post100953. Also, a trajectory based on real life LCROSS state vectors: http://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?p=124206#post124206