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[TheBigDog]

Originally Posted by CraigD

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 nayone familiar with them?

Since we are not trying to enter lunar orbit I would guess that a mid course correction might not be needed. The proper alignment for entering lunar orbit is much narrower than for hitting the moon close to the middle.

In watching the video I could not tell how the sim was accounting for the transition from earth to lunar gravity. I was playing one of the games someone had posted a couple on months ago last night, the gravity pods game. I am hoping that the sim I built will eventually work something like that, only on a much grander scale. I will leave it to the experts to do the realistic sims, and give us an idea of the launch windows we should be looking at for optimum payload delivery.

I loved the Strauss touch too.

Bill