Hmuda
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I noiced that there are a few people in the community, who started building their own stations. I decided that I myself try to make one. Here are the pictures taken during the first mission, which took a trussed habitation module, a truss element and two solar pannels to orbit and assembled them.
The station itself is still not operational, but I'll try to bring the remaining neccessities up in the next go. There is no overall building plan in place, I'll deicde what to bring before each mission.
Pre-flight preparations in Wideawake International.
After taxiing, the XR5 - loaded with the station components - is ready for takeoff.
After climbing to ~30km altitude, we engaged the SCRAMJETS.
After achieving a nice, clean orbit, we start assembling the first few modules.
First we released the habitation module, docked with it to avoid unneccessary drifting and attached the other three parts, using the newly installed URMS.
After undocking, and unfolding the solar pannels, the first stage is ready.
EDIT: and here are the pictures from landing. I haven't bothered to make sure I land in daylight, so I ended up making a night touchdown. The pictures are altered to have a better visibility, I use a value 10 ambient light.
Thanks to some careful AOA adjustments, I ended up right where I wanted.
After aligning up with the runway and setting up a decent speed, I slowly make physical contact with Earth.
Taxied, parked, waiting for the next mission.
Special thanks goes to the developers of the XR series, gregburch for his SBB collection, countdown84 for making the SBBs compatible with the XR5, yuri kulchitsky for his URMS, Nemoricus for inspiration and of course, Martin for his invaluable work on Orbiter.
(If I missed anyone, it wasn't becasue I don't like you, it was because it forgot.)
The station itself is still not operational, but I'll try to bring the remaining neccessities up in the next go. There is no overall building plan in place, I'll deicde what to bring before each mission.
Pre-flight preparations in Wideawake International.
After taxiing, the XR5 - loaded with the station components - is ready for takeoff.
After climbing to ~30km altitude, we engaged the SCRAMJETS.
After achieving a nice, clean orbit, we start assembling the first few modules.
First we released the habitation module, docked with it to avoid unneccessary drifting and attached the other three parts, using the newly installed URMS.
After undocking, and unfolding the solar pannels, the first stage is ready.
EDIT: and here are the pictures from landing. I haven't bothered to make sure I land in daylight, so I ended up making a night touchdown. The pictures are altered to have a better visibility, I use a value 10 ambient light.
Thanks to some careful AOA adjustments, I ended up right where I wanted.
After aligning up with the runway and setting up a decent speed, I slowly make physical contact with Earth.
Taxied, parked, waiting for the next mission.
Special thanks goes to the developers of the XR series, gregburch for his SBB collection, countdown84 for making the SBBs compatible with the XR5, yuri kulchitsky for his URMS, Nemoricus for inspiration and of course, Martin for his invaluable work on Orbiter.
(If I missed anyone, it wasn't becasue I don't like you, it was because it forgot.)
