Space Voyage #1

[TheBigDog]

Animate to your hearts' content gentlemen. I will throw in the occational schematic, but most of my animation will be utilize an ancient package called "prose".

Bill

[Jay-qu]

my animation is still to follow - having a little trouble with the upload, dont worry I will get it to you

EDIT:: ok here it is:
http://hypography.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=931&c=3

its only 1.5Mb but for that small download you get the reduced quality version..

[TheBigDog]

Originally Posted by Jay-qu

my animation is still to follow - having a little trouble with the upload, dont worry I will get it to you

EDIT:: ok here it is:
http://hypography.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=931&c=3

its only 1.5Mb but for that small download you get the reduced quality version..

Great animation JQ! I wish I knew how to do that stuff. But I am busy enough already.

Bill

[ronthepon]

Oh lord, JQ you too?!
I guess even I should try my hand in the graphic designers club aroung here! Oh shoot, I have my exams around the corner...

By the way, the prophesy seems a little bit farther than 'low orbit' to me... JQ, Janus is gonna sue you, better be ready with a good lawyer.

[Tormod]

Jay-qu, where do you get those great Earth movies???

[ronthepon]

Originally Posted by Tormod

Jay-qu, where do you get those great Earth movies???

He made it, did'nt he?

[Tormod]

Originally Posted by ronthepon

He made it, did'nt he?

I doubt he actually drew a 3D Earth.

[TheFaithfulStone]

I think that's Celestia. Right Jay?

TFS

[TheBigDog]

I have gathered some moon facts from this site... http://www.nineplanets.org/luna.html

The ones that I need are these...
orbit: 384,400 km from Earth
diameter: 3476 km
mass: 7.35e22 kg

We need to calculate the trip from the earth to the moon. We are currently in orbit at 400km. I was told by Jay-qu and Pyro that we will require a 3.5 hour burn at 0.1g to escape the earth. That will bive us a velocity of ... err ... I am reminded of why we have a crew of experts.

We will be orienting the ship so that it will take a tangental course from the earth to the moon, locking onto target as we loop around toward the moon from behind the earth. If we accellerate at 0.1g for 3.5 hours, what will our transit time to the moon be?

When we arrive at the moon we are going to release 3 communication satellites into lunar orbit so that we are in constant contact with out equiment and with the earth. These will be in relativly high orbit above the moon. We will also be sending out two satellites to map the surface of the moon and return the data to the Prophesy. We will be using this data to locate specific targets on the lunar surface. We will then be sending several probes to the lunar surface, along with a two manned shuttles capable of moving between several lunar locations before returning to the Prophesy. One of the shuttles will return to the Prophesy on the same day. The other will remain on the surface with a small crew for several days of extended research.

When the first shuttle returns to the ship we will launch a orbital command post into lunar orbit. Once it has established its place in orbit the Prophesy will return to earth orbit. There we will drop off some samples and visitors along for the space trials. We will then return to the moon and collect our equipment and personel. Once everyone is back onboard we will plot out trip to mars.

So... at what altitude will we be orbiting the moon? At what altitude will our satellites be orbiting the moon? At what speed do we want to orbit the moon? Will we need to correct our speed to get to our desired altitude? Who want to be part of the extended landing party? Part of the ceremonial landing party? Stay on the orbital command post? Stay on the ship?

Remember, we have both communications satellites and surface scanning satellites. These are the same satellites that may be orbiting Mars, or Titan, or Neptune during the trip. We can also leave some satellites in permanent orbit where we choose, although we have a limited number, and most of them have limited battery life as we intend to recover them.

We are just a few orbits from breaking earth orbit and heading toward the moon. So we need to get this info entered into the computer ASAP. We do not have an earth based command post. We are entirly self sufficient.

Bill (t-11 hours)

[Pyrotex]

Originally Posted by TheBigDog

Great animation JQ! I wish I knew how to do that stuff. But I am busy enough already....

I concur, approve and agree with that!

Speaking of busy... Your pilot and alien bimbo detector is down with bronchitis. On top of that, (oy!) my wife and I start moving from this house into an apartment tomorrow, and my office at work gets moved Monday in prep for the (possible) contract win. {sniff} {coff, coff} So, you guys will have to have all the fun yourselves. I'm at home right now with my medicines. So find a suitable replacement for pilot.

By the way, when igniting the main engine, be SURE that the befuddling pins are alligned to better than 99.2% before pushing that green button next to the thingamajig indicator, or we will have a 30 Megaton "accident" on our hands.

Best of luck. I'm going to the Medical module for a breathing treatment, and a full-body olive oil rubdown by Desiree la'Tush, the red-headed junior medical technician. Be back in a few days.