RE: Ranger 7, Atlas LV-3A, Agena B 1.0 released.

["Robert Conley" <estar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

No the flight plan the result of me flying different profiles over and over (and over... you get it) again. This took about four hours to develop. I have two profiles that I start out with.

 

MET+015 80

MET+035 70

MET+055 60

MET+075 50

MET+095 40

MET+115 30

MET+135 20

 

After this I play with it so that I hit vertical speed of 0 at the end of the burn.

 

Second Profile

 

MET+010 85

MET+020 80

MET+030 75

MET+040 70

MET+050 65

MET+060 60

MET+070 55

MET+080 50

MET+090 45

MET+100 40

MET+110 35

MET+120 30

MET+130 20

 

After this I play with it so that I hit vertical speed of 0 at the end of the burn.

 

 

Then depending on which one gives me the better result I go from them O I have a third one too it goes like this

 

MET+015 80

MET+030 70

MET+045 60

MET+060 50

MET+075 40

MET+090 30

MET+105 20

 

After this I play with it so that I hit vertical speed of 0 at the end of the burn.

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: ??? ????? [mailto:flounder@netvision.net.il]
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 2:42 PM
To: orbiter@firedrake.org
Subject: Re: Ranger 7, Atlas LV-3A, Agena B 1.0 released.

Hi there

 

I've just found out about this great sim, very well done.

 

Now since flying rockets is not up my ally, can someone give me some instructions? I've read the manual. It seems easy enough to launch the craft, but the manual says that the pitch should be changed upon reaching certain highet, is there a rule of thumb so to speak? or is it a calculated approach?

 

Thanks for helping out a newbie.

 

Flounder

----- Original Message -----

From: LColHuston@aol.com

To: orbiter@firedrake.org

Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 9:10 PM

Subject: Re: Ranger 7, Atlas LV-3A, Agena B 1.0 released.

Ranger 7 was a real spacecraft.  The first Ranger missions flew past the moon becuase of miscalculations and a hope that they might enter orbit of the moon, even though they had way to much velocity to do such.  Ranger 7 was deliberately pointed AT the moon and successfully impacted, giving a lot of great information for scientists here on earth about the moon and its composition in addition to the close up pictures it returned.

-Christopher Trott
Parker, Colorado, USA
CEO, Green Mountain Airlines (http://www.flygma.com)
SimNASA Aerospace Research Pilot (http://www.simnasa.org)
Director of R&D, Virtualairlines.com (http://www.virtualairlines.com)