Screenshots of the Space Age.

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Screenshots of the Space Age.

Post by jenat-lai »

http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~martins/orbit/orbit.html

This is from a free addon for a free spaceflight simulator.

On the Launchpad, Saturn V rocket ready for launch... bound for the Skylab as mission 2.

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After launch, saturn V speeding to the heaveans

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First stage seperation. After the lower rocket booster runs out of fuel, it is discarded, it will now drop into the Atlantic somewhere.

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A few hours later, and the CSM module of the Saturn rocket reaches the Skylab for a few weeks of testing.

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Weeks later, the CSM has made it's de-orbit burn... the Reentry capsule ejects the Service module in preperation for reentry to the earths atmoshpere.

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In a few minutes the capsule is now entering the outer fringes of the atmosphere at over 20 times the speed of sound.

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Passing over florida now on it's way to the atlantic ocean, the site where the splashdown will occur, off the coast of the launching area.

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Having slowed down dramatically, and now minutes away from splashdown, the capsules parachutes open to slow the craft down.

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After splashdown, the chutes are jettisoned, and the floats inflate to bring the craft back to the surface, where recovery is to be made by hellicopter and raft. The 3 men aboard will then be taken aboard an aircraft carrier and eventually flown back to the Cape.

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Impressive!

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Post by Ryoga »

Whoa, I was wondering when somebody here would stumble across Orbiter. :lol:

I had to do a little work with it for my boss, as a kind of demo project. It's a pretty cool little project; you really feel like you've accomplished something if you've got screenshots from Pluto orbit. :twisted:
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Does this sim have a stardestroyer mod? :wink:
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Cool. I'm downloading it now.
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Post by jenat-lai »

No, I'm not aware of any ISD mods, though I guess it wouldn't be impossible to make one... but I have found one of these:

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Post by Kenny_10_Bellys »

Never mind that nonsense, I've been searching for the Space:1999 Eagle that I saw in some screenshots on an Orbiter site. If I can't find it I might have to have a bash at converting my own model of an Eagle into Orbiter format.
visit http://www.kennyscrap.com for all your crap model needs.
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Post by jenat-lai »

try the www.avsim.com site... particularly http://library.avsim.net/index.php


actually... some searches I'm trying are:

http://library.avsim.net/search.php?Sea ... ID=Orbiter
and
http://library.avsim.net/search.php?Sea ... &Go=Search

you may find your own... otherwise, happy hunting...
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There's also I think a good quality flight sim called FlightGear.

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