Re: Station-building: a vessel proposal

[David Henderson <orbiter@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Roger Burton West wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 03:33:44AM +0000, David Henderson wrote:
> >I'll look into the fuel MFD on Sunday, with luck. If anyone wants to make
> >a 3d model of a fuel drone to stick atop Ariane (12 tonnes) or a smaller
> >on on another launcher, feel free!
> OK - there's a _very_ basic "fuel tree" up at
> http://firedrake.org/orbiter/modules/ . (See modulefuel.jpg for what it
> currently looks like, modulefuel.zip for mesh and config download.) I
> haven't optimised it at all yet - there are still significant
> interpenetrating objects, and far too many vertices. Will continue work
> on this, but the basic shape's likely to remain the same.

Looks great. I made an interim version for my latest updates out of a
sphere and a cylinder... think I can dump that now. ;-)

> I'm not sure how the payload orientation works for multistage rockets -
> if you (David) need it inverted to fit the standard module bay, let me
> know.

Right will give it a go tomorrow, with luck.

Problem I'm having is how to specify the tank has capacity X, but is
empty. Might have to get into dll coding for even the A5, so I can control
fuel levels.

Printed out the new API manuals. Erm, they've grown. :-)

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