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Message started by SimJack on Jan 3rd, 2007 at 12:39pm

Title: Re: Shuttle Bug
Post by SabreHawk on Jan 6th, 2007 at 5:13pm
Rodger that Simjack, hehe! Yeah, I have to agree there are some things that arent very clear, I for one am still confused a bit on doing orbital operations.

The manual really doesnt say much except that getting an orbit by use of the slew keys, which as best I can tell means using the "up" and "forward" commands to get the Shuttle moving forward and continuing till the speed is at what's called "Orbital velocity" which is If I remember correctly about 12,000 MPH. And at the same time using the "up" command to get it to an orbital altitude which is much higher than 400,000ft.( I'll have to look that up, it's measured in miles not feet.)

Still though, this means that when ya want to re-enter you'd have to load up the "entry" flight again as there would be no way for you to know exactly at what distance from KSC to start it(it has to precise), and of course to have the autopilot to be functional again as it wont be once we take it out of slew mode to do orbital ops. and we have been around the planet for a few orbits playing space cowboy. :P

Heh, yeppers it's like Han said, "Flyin through space aint like dustin crops boy, without precise calculations we'd fly right through a star or bounce too close to a supernova(off the atmosphere in our case) and that'd end yer trip real quick wouldn't it?" ;D

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