Questions to orbiter: refueling more realistic and some addon questions

[stefan85]

Hi there,

after a very very loooooong break from orbiter I'm just reinstalling it and loading the textures. Years ago I played with deltaglider 4 and doug's xr vessels. Also I used wideawake (the new version).

Now I've some questions; hopefully someone can answer:

1. You can refuel your vessels on the ISS. Is there any possibility that the fuel isn't infinite? I want to have to fly some ucgo fuels up there.
2. Is the graphical orbiter visualisation project in a stage you would recommend it's use rather using the orbiter graphics engine? Years ago it was in alpha stage and pretty instable.
3. I read the new wideawake is in beta status. Unfortunately there was no update since a long time. I do not want to ask for an eta but is this project still alive?
4. I used kulch's energia rockets but these were for an older orbiter versions. Any updates here?

And as I don't want to spam forums I want to ask (pretty silly I think) for some addons:
1. Is there any ucgo compatible rocket to get some stuff like kulchs mir-2 or some ucgo stuff into orbit? It should have an autopilot like kulchs rocked and an ui would be nice. What's the best addon for this?
2. Is there any emergency pod avail for iss like in real?
3. Is orbiter still developed actively?

Thanks in advance for answering.

 

[Face]

Welcome back.

Now I've some questions; hopefully someone can answer:

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2. Is the graphical orbiter visualisation project in a stage you would recommend it's use rather using the orbiter graphics engine? Years ago it was in alpha stage and pretty instable.
3. I read the new wideawake is in beta status. Unfortunately there was no update since a long time. I do not want to ask for an eta but is this project still alive?

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3. Is orbiter still developed actively?

I could answer those real quick: Yes, yes and yes.

OVP D3D9Client by Jarmonik et al. is pretty stable now and comes with quite some goodies.

Wideawake is still alive, I've dropped quite some code chunk onto WHAP some weeks ago.

Orbiter is still in development, the betas are even publicly available now.

regards,
Face

 

[PhantomCruiser]

There is a UCGO version of ISS available [ame="http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=4457"]UCGO & UMMU compatible ISS[/ame] I've not used it myself, but remembered that you can haul up fuel, food, etc.

 

[garyw]

I use the project alpha ISS (the default) which allows for fuel transfers but not food.

 

[goaowonk]

Doesnt' that one have infinite fuel for transfers?

 

[garyw]

Nope.

Meshname = ProjectAlpha_ISS
ImageBmp = Images\Vessels\Default\ProjectAlpha_ISS.bmp
Mass = 450e3
Size = 55.0
CrossSections = 634 4103 878
Inertia = 385 719 508
EnableFocus = TRUE
EnableXPDR = TRUE
XPDR = 466

[B]MaxFuel = 5000  [/B]
Isp = 3000
MaxAttitudeThrust = 2000

 

[stefan85]

Thanks for answering me. But am I able to refuel the ProjectAlpha ISS with an ucgo vessel?

All I want here is to simulate refueling flights.

 

[Cras]

Does Fuel MFD work for what you are trying to do?

 

[stefan85]

I'll give it a try and report back then.