Wow!
Is the Strauss soundtrack a feature of Orbiter, or something you added, Janus. In either case, a nice touch.
I didn’t notice any mid-course correction maneuver. Was this because there was none, or was it unnoticed due to the time compression? I recall from some of the Apollo data I’ve been using that, given the precision available to even modern spacecraft, a mid-course correction is a practical necessity.
So, to save me the labor (and test of my practical orbital mechanical skill ) of calculating them myself, can the Orbiter run produce a thrusts data (time, magnitude, and vector) in a simple text format. I’d like to plug it into XGRAVSIM4 and see how it works. And, of course, the data must be available in a form that can be used to actually program the control system of a spacecraft.
Given that there are so many science and commercial satellites performing routine orbital maneuvers, there must be some standards for this sort of control data. Is anyone familiar with them?
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