Request Venus high atmospheric floating landing-platform or station.

[Chris74]

Hi everyone Since Artlavs great Shukra Balloon station, there no free floating landing platform, base or outpost.

It would be great to have one, it gives the GREATEST reentry-navigation-landing experience with any glider type spacecraft, especially Ravenstar.

this should be free floating or fixed at a 1bar altitude, for example in titans, venuses or gas giants atmosphere. realistically if the local g is under 1.5
adjustable floating height is a nice touch.
but fixed base could be easier, considering time acceleration.
it could be suspended by aerostat, or futuristic means, but I think aerostat is much cooler.
(plz DONT make a starwars cloud city or mesh, its dumb and anti orbiter)

ideally it should have pods and a short runway to practice different landing or STOL techniques. with a huge range VOR to help negotiate approach directions from the upper atmosphere if the runway direction is variable.

But if you could modify the original Shukra station to work properly in OBT2016 that would be also nice.

https://www.spaceanswers.com/futuretech/floating-colonies-on-venus/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Altitude_Venus_Operational_Concept

thx

 

[Artlav]

In other words, Shukra no longer works in O2016? What exactly is wrong with it?

 

[Chris74]

In other words, Shukra no longer works in O2016? What exactly is wrong with it?

Hi Man :tiphat:
it was already buggy in 2010.

2010
wont keep altitude, drifts out into space
if planted on titan or gas giants then even more, sometimes ejects or gets wrong rotation ie tilted to 30 40 degrees even.

now, 2016
on approach
w ravenstar game randomly crashes, sometimes not, but game basically unplayable
w deltaglider if got close to the station, station ejects into space w INSANE speed. solar trajectory becomes a straight line.

but TBH man, considering the super fun aerocapture/energy management scenarios the landing on this base can offer, it really deserves a complete overhaul...

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in addition, i dont remember what was the exact config in 2010

but i do know I always played reentrys only with this station, because after this, normal surface base landing like CC just wasnt fun enough

i dont know the turning of the runway was a bug or a feature but was also super fun to figure out the runway orientation during reentry or even aerocapture

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In other words, Shukra no longer works in O2016? What exactly is wrong with it?

well i just saw i outlined the problem in 2012 in the original addon thread. its the last entry...

 

[Artlav]

Sadly, i'm years out of sync with Orbiter SDK by now, and no longer even have a C++ dev environment for Windows, so me fixing anything is highly unlikely.

 

[Chris74]

Sadly, i'm years out of sync with Orbiter SDK by now, and no longer even have a C++ dev environment for Windows, so me fixing anything is highly unlikely.

too bad I vaguely remember that you already wrote this somewhere in around 2012...

any ideas who could do this?
i mean its only a few files.
maybe its easy to do for someone who uses the newest sdk regularly.

 

[Artlav]

You know what, that's a great idea.
Here is the code: https://www.orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=39822
No idea who could possibly pick it up, but at least now there is a chance.