Re: Hi

[Roger Burton West <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 12:46:20PM +0200, Spaceflight wrote:
>Hi.
>
>1. Does anyone know some cool addon sites for Orbiter?

McDope's Orbital Mods: http://nav.to/orbitmods
Estar's Meadville Space Center:
http://www.alltel.net/~estar/orbiter.html
Vinka's site: http://users.swing.be/~vinka/
IPath (is there anything here?): http://pub21.ezboard.com/bipath
Thomas Bateman:
http://www.users.qwest.net/~batemanthomasa/content/orbiter.htm
Voyager 1: http://www.freehomepages.com/voyager1/
VBSPO: http://www.geocities.com/vbspo/
Tycho7: http://www.tycho7.com/Space/orbiter_simulator.htm
Radu Poenaru: http://217.10.196.198/ORBITER/main.html
x292's download mirrors: http://24.117.18.101/

>3. Does someone have some helpful hints how to make interplanetary trips?

Trust the transfer MFD. :-)

Start with Earth to Mars. Use the transfer MFD instructions to pick a
departure time, Use the orbit HUD's reference selector to choose your
orbit round the Sun, and pick a time when prograde-that matches
prograde-Earth. Then burn. Correct once you're effectively under the
Sun's gravitational influence.

>4. Does anyone know how to transform 2-line-element trajectory data (TLEs) for sat tracking programs to work within the orbiter *.cfg? That would be great to get all the "real" objects like ISS to cruise the exact real life orbit. Then one could try to make shuttle trips to the station parallel to real life missions...

This is a non-trivial exercise. (i.e. not as far as I know.)

Roger