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I think this is the one. The star trackers no longer line up with your changes.
 
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Here it is with the fixed star trackers
 

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On and off, I've been looking at the Crawler's touchdown points and... I give up. :facepalm:
I got it to "behave" at normal time acceleration, but once I go to 10x, it either sinks and/or it shoots into another galaxy. When it sinks, returning to 1x makes it start to emerge slowly.
I didn't even got to the point of it dealing with a few thousands of tons on top of it, or get it to drive. :shrug:

Any news on the vc?
 
On and off, I've been looking at the Crawler's touchdown points and... I give up. :facepalm:
I got it to "behave" at normal time acceleration, but once I go to 10x, it either sinks and/or it shoots into another galaxy. When it sinks, returning to 1x makes it start to emerge slowly.
I didn't even got to the point of it dealing with a few thousands of tons on top of it, or get it to drive. :shrug:
Is this with our propulsion system or fred18's? I think we determined in the Crawler thread that our system was a NO-GO and needed to be replaced. The agreed to solution was to replace it with fred18's Crawler system that he has implemented in MS2015 which do work very nicely in Orbiter 2016.

Any news on the vc?
No, not really. Been busy with LC39 and the corrected orbiter. With the amount of bugs that we have seen with the VC system, I have decided to not prioritize it and a new VC won't really fix them.
 
As I can't really do anything else, I'm working on ticket 161 and found a somewhat big discrepancy in the mass of the ODS (alone).
Currently we have the following "According to a SSP PRCB presentation on the STS-125 pros/cons of Single Pad vs Dual Pad ops for LON, ODS mass is 925 lbs, this is for the ODS alone, not including the airlock hardware", and in the ticket "the mass of the ODS is 632 lbs". Which is correct? Another question whether or not our current dry mass already includes the internal airlock?

I tried to keep things as unchanged as I could, so the new setup for the airlock parameters will be as follows:
>> UseODS=TRUE and UseExtAL=TRUE: external airlock with ODS
>> UseODS=FALSE and UseExtAL=TRUE: external airlock alone
>> UseODS=FALSE and UseExtAL=FALSE: internal airlock (default)
>> UseODS=TRUE and UseExtAL=FALSE: internal airlock and external airlock with ODS
 
As I can't really do anything else, I'm working on ticket 161 and found a somewhat big discrepancy in the mass of the ODS (alone).
Currently we have the following "According to a SSP PRCB presentation on the STS-125 pros/cons of Single Pad vs Dual Pad ops for LON, ODS mass is 925 lbs, this is for the ODS alone, not including the airlock hardware", and in the ticket "the mass of the ODS is 632 lbs". Which is correct? Another question whether or not our current dry mass already includes the internal airlock?

I tried to keep things as unchanged as I could, so the new setup for the airlock parameters will be as follows:
>> UseODS=TRUE and UseExtAL=TRUE: external airlock with ODS
>> UseODS=FALSE and UseExtAL=TRUE: external airlock alone
>> UseODS=FALSE and UseExtAL=FALSE: internal airlock (default)
>> UseODS=TRUE and UseExtAL=FALSE: internal airlock and external airlock with ODS

This ticket should now be "fixed". I kept the ODS mass as it was.

A request to the graphics department: could the frame be added to the TAA?
iss015e21732.jpg

If it works, it could be placed in the existing mesh and then those groups would be hidden (via code) when not needed (when the TAA is used forward of the airlock).
 
I could do that, but it is already added to SpaceHAB payloads that are available.
 
I could do that, but it is already added to SpaceHAB payloads that are available.

I'd say the TAA is part of the shuttle, and whatever comes after it is payload.
 
Could be, but wouldn't be necessary without the payload.
 
Not sure what you want done. Maybe some arrows and circles.
 
First of all you have too many tiles. If you look at the real Columbia, there are about 14 white tiles above the side RCS area. And you don't have them angled correctly. They need to match the angle of the black tiles.
 
First of all you have too many tiles. If you look at the real Columbia, there are about 14 white tiles above the side RCS area. And you don't have them angled correctly. They need to match the angle of the black tiles.
From where are you counting? The angle could be improved, I agree with you there.
 
Hey guys, a quick question about Universal Pointing OPS

Is it possible to change the track target, or is it stuck in track target 2 ( Earth).
I tried to change it, but illegal entry came out.
I would like to track ISS with BPV.

Thanks for your help.
 
I think the manual says it can't, but I could be wrong.
 
Hey guys, a quick question about Universal Pointing OPS

Is it possible to change the track target, or is it stuck in track target 2 ( Earth).
I tried to change it, but illegal entry came out.
I would like to track ISS with BPV.

Thanks for your help.

Currently UNIV PTG can only point to the center of the Earth. I'm not sure, but I don't think you can track an orbiting object, only points in relation to the Earth or to the stars.
 

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