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On Orbit => Space Shuttle Mission Simulator (tm) => Topic started by: Cygnus on January 23, 2010, 09:06:29 PM

Title: The "teasing" is over 3 Cheers to the ES team!
Post by: Cygnus on January 23, 2010, 09:06:29 PM

Well worth the tease! It always feels like Christmas when you release the service packs!  ;D

Title: Re: The "teasing" is over 3 Cheers to the ES team!
Post by: neosonic2k on January 23, 2010, 09:48:20 PM

MON2. :P I narrowed it down perfectly then. :P Let's see how it works... *starts investigating*

Title: Re: The "teasing" is over 3 Cheers to the ES team!
Post by: davidrobinsonjr on January 23, 2010, 11:06:44 PM

Well Done!! Thank you G.C.

Title: Re: The "teasing" is over 3 Cheers to the ES team!
Post by: schmidtrock on January 24, 2010, 02:32:19 AM

Great job GC!!

Title: Re: The "teasing" is over 3 Cheers to the ES team!
Post by: Nephi on January 24, 2010, 03:30:13 AM

So sweet ! Nicely done guys !!! Been waiting for this for so long :) SSM is like witnessing the birth of a wunderkind over several years :)

Title: Re: The "teasing" is over 3 Cheers to the ES team!
Post by: sgi on January 24, 2010, 03:42:33 AM

Only one word: thanks!

Title: Re: The "teasing" is over 3 Cheers to the ES team!
Post by: Phixit on January 24, 2010, 07:20:44 AM

 ;D Thanks for the update!

Need to finish up sts-98 before I can upgrade though!

Title: Re: The "teasing" is over 3 Cheers to the ES team!
Post by: Richard R on January 24, 2010, 07:21:58 AM

Thanks for the update..outstanding.... :)

Title: Re: The "teasing" is over 3 Cheers to the ES team!
Post by: Buzz on January 24, 2010, 06:47:49 PM

Great update! The improvements start on screen one with the Shuttle in premier position 8)

Title: Re: The "teasing" is over 3 Cheers to the ES team!
Post by: marvx on January 25, 2010, 11:23:43 AM

GC has done a perfect job again.....maybe NASA should hire them....although...who would then teaser us?

/Marvx

Title: Re: The "teasing" is over 3 Cheers to the ES team!
Post by: meco2 on January 25, 2010, 05:27:42 PM

Just a huge Thanks to the GC!!!!!!!!!!!
  :)
 

Title: Re: The "teasing" is over 3 Cheers to the ES team!
Post by: Zenra on January 25, 2010, 11:25:05 PM

Fantastic!  Perfect addition!!

Title: Re: The "teasing" is over 3 Cheers to the ES team!
Post by: davidrobinsonjr on January 26, 2010, 01:08:50 AM

Great addition, although I'm not sure about the call that docking was a little rough :D :D Time to go back to ground school.

Title: Re: The "teasing" is over 3 Cheers to the ES team!
Post by: Admin on January 26, 2010, 01:24:06 AM

Quote from: davidrobinsonjr on January 26, 2010, 01:08:50 AM

Great addition, although I'm not sure about the call that docking was a little rough :D :D Time to go back to ground school.

Read the Docking chapter in the Commander's Ref. Man. It hints to the proper approach speed <g>

As a rule of thumb, the approach speed (in the sim) should be @1% of the distance in feet. For example, between 100' and 90', the speed should be below 1fps. Between 50' and 40' it should be below 0.5fps and so on. The recommended final approach speed during the last 1' should be 0.01fps.

Overall, the approach velocities we check for in the sim are higher than in real life simply because we don't want to force anybody to spend so much time on this maneuver, but if you want to be closer to reality, why don't you do the approach at 0.1 - 0.01 fps from 100' down to docking :)

My routine docking speeds start at 0.1fps between 100' and 30' and then 0.01fps until contact. That's roughly 1 hour!

/Admin

Title: Re: The "teasing" is over 3 Cheers to the ES team!
Post by: spaceboy7441 on January 26, 2010, 04:27:05 AM

Well I got my new Key today with for SSM on my flash drive. After SSM's weekend emailing and even their lightining fast emailing today. 10 min responce for my new key! Great job SSM you are doing fantastic work.

Back to the FP. I honestly didn't think the extra Mon would be a big thing more like a would be nice to have but I must say I am actually quite impressed after getting a look at it. Great job SSM I look forward to doing a docking and some RMS work today  ;D

Title: Re: The "teasing" is over 3 Cheers to the ES team!
Post by: Jeff B on January 26, 2010, 04:32:15 AM

GREAT WORK AS USUAL.