Orbiter Flight Log - Earth, Venus, Earth, Mars (Aug 2010)

[23bgm]

I plan the slingshot, but when I arrive at the slingshot planet, what do I need to do to change the orbit as planned? (with TransX). I either don't know how to plan making the flight just with a single burn, as you did. Can you make a tutorial to explain these things?

[andysim232]

epic sound track to an epic journey!!!

[Clone683]

3 years inside a tiny delta glider? no thanks

[catinabin]

love how the music incorporates with the trip well.. good video!

[TheSeriosm87]

How did you installe Videnie...!!

[Akira89M]

how do you make the orbit path visable ?

[DavidWCourtney]

At 5:40 ... when you enter Mars atmosphere, why does the Delta-Glider rotate 90 degrees one direction, go inverted rotate 90 degrees the other direction, and so on?

Wouldn't that make it burn up?

I realize the Martian atmosphere is thinner than Earth's atmosphere, but wouldn't you still "pancake" the atmosphere? Isn't that what the high temperature tiles on the bottom of the vessel are there for?

I'm a n00b, so I don't know if this is a dumb question.

[Mr41432]

@DavidWCourtney well it is just a simulator

[Eihort]

As long as I had Orbiter I'd live. :D Excellent work as always tex. love the music. I have visions of this guy in a flight pressure suit (no helm, cuz they're for pansies) with a 10 gallon hat and mirrored shades piloting that sucker.

[zp27772]

think how boring it would be to sit in that little spacecraft in one and a half year:)

[SierraLima100]

Hi, great movie and sound.

I´m searching now for 2 days to find the button where i can aktivate the line which shows my orbital track in the 3d-view.

Now i give it up!

Is it a special plug-in, or am i just too stupid to find it !!!!

Thx for help in advance ;-)

[TexFilms]

@SierraLima100 It is an addon you have to download. Go to Orbithangar and search for 'Videnie' and you will find it.

[SierraLima100]

@TexFilms

THX vor fast ans easy help.

With this little tool it´s allmost possible to go to the moon VFR :-D

[MontgomeryBL]

Nice movie!

[IzackN]

And THIS is why I play Orbiter! :D

[TexFilms]

@IzackN Hell yea!! "D

[GrandExhaultedPoobah]

Yes. That music is from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

[mecagoentoooooooo]

Kill bill Am I wrong?

[SilentSierra]

Excellent job, try in another video create something like this:

AirDynamics

watch?v=dHxKo0RpQhY

[gasfornuisje]

Wondefull!

[TexFilms]

@gasfornuisje Cheers! :)

[Stevodoran]

I am always excited when i see a video by you in my subscription box. Excellent film.

[TexFilms]

@Stevodoran Thanks mate, see you on the forum!

[pjt]

Great video. I am curious though. I saw a tutorial on your site on how to dock with the ISS. Any chance you could post some videos on the Transx MFD. Im trying to learn it rather than use the IMFD

[TexFilms]

@pjt Hi, thank you! I have already uploaded many TransX tutorials made by the resident Orbiter-Forum member 'flytandem'. Go to my channel here on You Tube and you can see them all.

[catamaranman333]

Great film man showing off a cool add-on and a great soundtrack! Seems like taking the scenic route to Mars tho....

[TexFilms]

@catamaranman333 Thanks man!! I was gonna call you about this video as I am really getting this sling shot business down. Next time you're over I'll show you what I've learned. At least now I can better explain what those numbers mean and what exactly they're doing. :P

[TexFilms]

@catamaranman333 Indeed it was the scenic route, but that's what I was going for. It cost less fuel than going to go Mars direct and I got to see Venus with a free-return back to Earth before reaching Mars thanks to the velocity I inherited slinging Venus and Earth. The real cost was in time, but that's what the scenario editor is for. :)

[DavidWCourtney]

@TexFilms Wow, 2 years and 7 months just to save a dollar on gas? Al Gore would love you.

Just kidding. I completely understand this kind of thing. It's fun to explore the technical possibilities of minimal resources. I know NASA does this kind of thing with probes that are going out to Saturn and beyond. They take the scenic route in order to keep costs down. At this point in our young space program, I guess *time* is a cheaper commodity than the cost of lifting all that fuel/mass into space.

[QuarterPounder4]

Awesome video! I wish I could do a flight like that, but I have NO idea how to do an interplanetary flight. I only know how to fly from a planet to its moon(s) and back.

[TexFilms]

@QuarterPounder4 Thank you and hang in there! As I posted a second ago, it took me years to come to grasp with Orbiter. Math is my worst subject, but thankfully Orbiter has MFD's that do that for you, so anyone can learn how to play Orbiter. Read up on orbital mechanics and how they work for a better understanding of how things work in Orbiter. Also visit Orbiter-Forum for tutorials and other cool stuff! ;)

[arsenal553]

Video made by a future Astronaut.

[Muzzleflash219]

How long would you think it'd take to get the hang of this simulator?

[catamaranman333]

@Muzzleflash219 Ive spent about 4 years o it and the guy who made this video explaining everything to me.....its pretty complex. Getting to the moon and back successfully w/o autopilots took me about 100 hrs. of study and practice. Also there is a HUGE online community and many, many mods and add-on spacecraft so it never gets old.

[TexFilms]

@Muzzleflash219 It depends first on the knowledge you have coming into it. I didn't have any real grasp on orbital mechanics when I started playing Orbiter 5 years ago. That makes it tougher because you don't fully appreciate everything that is happening and why it happens. I played with Orbiter off and on for years and in that time I eventually picked up enough that I finally got a complete grasp (or mostly complete) of how things worked and why. Short answer, it could take years.

[Muzzleflash219]

@TexFilms Thanks for the reply.

[britrb32]

Great to see another awesome TexFilms movie! No stars this time, so its all three of my thumbs up!!

Just out of interest, I was wondering if you have looked at "Infinity". Its an MMORPG twitch based space shooter thats currently under development. The graphics look very nice although its not a proper simulator. look for "infinity-universe" with 3w's and a dot com in the appropriate places.

I hope to start making some videos again soon, just waiting for some time off from work.

Brian :)

[TexFilms]

@britrb32 Cheers mate! I haven't been into making movies much lately, but I have been playing a lot of Orbiter! Still learning TransX, this thing has so much replay value. I hit another milestone finding my first inner solar system sling, so I had to make a video of it once I saw Artlav's Videnie addon too.

I'll have to check out the mmorpg you mentioned, but to be honest its not normally the type of game I get into. :)

[shanedawsonfan36]

tex you finally made a new video!! i have been waiting forever ,keep it up!! oh and what is the song called?

[TexFilms]

@shanedawsonfan36 Thanks! Song titles are in the end credits ;)

[gaho91]

Excellent video! I have to say that the Good the Bad and the Ugly soundtrack is one of my favorite soundtracks and you put it beautifully to an "inner-solar system tour."

Kudos from Texas

[TexFilms]

@gaho91 Thanks very much! :)

[bullpupaug]

god i love this game...

[SirMildredPierce]

That's how you slow down when you get to mars!!! I wonder if that would work with the DGIV...

[TexFilms]

@SirMildredPierce Every time I try that with the DG4 I burned up and if I try to avoid burning up I skip out of the atmosphere. It's very tough to do this at Mars because of the thinner atmosphere. At speeds like that the DG just wants to bounce out of the atmosphere so bad! Practice with the stock DG first to get the hang of it would be my recommendation. To be fair though, I have very little aerobraking experience.

[vishnaborg]

@TexFilms I think the DGIV is just too sensitive for aerobraking like this. But I wonder if the XR2 would be able to?

Sadly, as much as I want to, I won't be able to try this for a while. My joystick's rudder control is a bit screwed up (probably got bumped around on the car ride up to UCF).

[jackel1490]

that has to be one of your best, have start using orbiter again keep up the good work

[TexFilms]

@jackel1490 Cheers! Honestly I made this one in a day, so it's not a polished film, but I follow you! It shows the beauty of Orbiter, mainly thanks to Artlav's Videnie addon. ;)

[djspinacz]

first ;)))

great vid as always

[TexFilms]

@djspinacz Thank you :)