My first orbit reached!

[OrbiterSpore]

I don't know where to post this, so i'm posting it here.
3 days ago,i reached my first orbit with Ecc=0.0000056.
Thanks to all tut. publishiers!:tiphat:

 

[Pilot7893]

Congrats! I still remember my first manual orbit.

 

[n122vu]

Congrats! It only gets more fun from here!

 

[Izack]

Congrats! It only gets more fun from here!

Yep. I'm still working on the 'getting down' part.

 

[Ghostrider]

Congrats! I remember when I first managed to achieve a stable and almost perfectly round orbit on full manual control (was on a Dyna-Soar).

 

[Tex]

I don't know where to post this, so i'm posting it here.

Of course this was not Off-Topic, so I moved this thread to the Orbiter Web Forum from the Off-Topic forum.

 

[Izack]

Forgot to say this the first time around: Congratulations!

What vessel did you use? DG-IV?

 

[qwesr]

Great job, i took me like a month to get my first average orbit>.<:facepalm:, anyways keep trying and keep having fun:thumbup:

 

[fireballs619]

Congratulations! My first orbit was in a DG (I never liked the DGIV). I haven't used that thing since my first lunar trip though . Try doing it in a different vessel now to see if you can still do it

 

[squeaky024]

All my orbits are "round-ish" if you look at it from orbit mfd. In fact my space station varies in altitude from 250km to 350km :lol: I later tried to adjust my orbit but it didn't help much due to a rather large disbalace in the center of gravity :facepalm:

Close enough

But congratulations, and good luck up there


edit: Oh my. Probe.

I leave for a week and we have a hail Probe gif.

 

[Lucy]

Congratulations. Getting into orbit yourself is one of those important abilities which marks you as an Orbinaut. I remember the first time I tried - I grabbed the stock Atlantis and punted it straight up with full thrusters. I thought I was doing quite well until it started to re-enter...

 

[IgnoreThisBarrel]

I hear the aerodynamics on that thing are terrible

My order of Orbiter achievements is somewhat weird... It took me a couple days before I could get out of Earth's atmosphere without reaching 500 times escape velocity. I remember taking off from Brighton Beach with the Shuttle-A all the time (and not turning down hover thrusters because I didn't know how) and aiming for Venus and firing the thrusters. I remember sailing past the sun at about 0.4 AU. Then there was the time I undocked from the ISS, aimed at the Moon and ended up sailing past it at ~30,000 kph with a perilune of about ~8,000 kilometres. After sailing past the moon I aimed at Jupiter and engaged full time acceleration, full thrusters, and frequently dropping to normal time to correct where my DG was pointing. I actually got close enough to Jupiter to see the labels of its moons

My progress:
Basic orbital manouvres.
Getting into orbit.
Lunar transfer.
Atmospheric flight (FSX has spoiled me...).
Landing on a body with no atmosphere.
Interplanetary travel.
Rendezvous with a body with no (or very little) gravity.
Syncing orbit with a base.
Atmospheric reentry!

Anyway, congrats on your first flight to orbit!

 

[Lucy]

I hear the aerodynamics on that thing are terrible

Flies like a brick, mate. :lol:

 

[Mojave]

Congratulations!

BTW, I actually made orbit in the stock Atlantis the very first time I played orbiter; It was an accident though. I guess probe was with me :lol:

 

[sfpilot]

Congrats, I remember my first manual orbit was in Atlantis also. I didn't do any math or use any MFD's (because i didn't know how to) and some how or other i guessed right and god into a highly eccentric orbit, where i released my sattilite and reverse thrusted until i burned up (if i hadn't been invisible) and crash landed in the Atlantic ocean

 

[HAL9001]

CONGRATIULATIONS!


I remember mine, too.
I used a DGIV, but without autopilot.
Now I can do everything with every ship, if it's possible (I don't reach Saturn with an Space-Shuttle).

 

[sccard1]

For me just getting into orbit took a lot of time. I am eternally grateful for Dr. Schweiger for making the Delta glider in orbit a default scenario. So I was at least able to figure out the basic principles of orbital mech. There are days I still have trouble getting the delta glider into orbit from the Shuttle Landing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center.

Thankfully a few years after I discovered orbiter I was required to take a course on astronautics while I was a cadet at the US Air Force Academy. So orbiter (and my calculus background) allowed me to tackle the mathematical modeling of orbits quite easily, but my mathematical models did not ease my pain in orbiter as it can take 30 min or more to do a basic patched conic flight to mars (and another 30 to get back), and I do not know how to configure the scenarios so the start time matches what I have on paper.

I am still working on orbital rendezvous. It takes time, and practice.

 

[OrbiterSpore]

What vessel did you used? DG-IV?

nah, i used XR-02... the stylish look always make me let the mind wander around for a while...:wwrd?:

I am still working on orbital rendezvous. It takes time, and practice.

yep i'm still try to figure it out too... BTW the correct term is, align orbital plane right?:idk:


:edit: :

My "strategy" to get on orbit is make the apoapsis get about Leo and then use prograde, killrot when hitting apoapsis, then full burn ahead! (until the fuel get to 0% or when the orbit has about to 00.0000080/56 Ecc.

 

[Grover]

i love the XR2, cant wait for the new release, whenever i lok at it, i have a 'crisis' (watchers of Top Gear over the last series or two will get that )

as for learning curves... everyone has their own. i already had good atmospheric flights, from flying IFR on FSX, and the occasional fully manual flight (using only trim), then for orbiter, it was:
get out the airy bit around the rock
basic manoeuvres (plane change, orbit maintenance etc)
earth-moon transfer
moon landing and launch
re-entry (DGIV of course )
-=Gap whilst i worked out transx=-
moon-earth transfer
altantis launching

-==To Do=--
interplanetary (transx wasnt doing it for me, learning IMFD now)
my ultimate goal, a perfect journey using arrow freighter-
moon-earth transfer
meet with an XR2
transfer to jupiter orbit
approach and landing on europa
set up the best UGCO base evar!!!! MWUHAHAHA


still some more to do, but ill get there

well done so far, and good luck for the future!

 

[FuzzyLogic]

Congrats!!!

My first manual orbit was with a stock DG. Didn't find it too difficult after reading a couple tutorials. Reentering was a different issue, though. It took months for me to learn the basics and my reentries are still... well, inaccurate. :lol: