'Earth to Mars HD' (Part I) - An Orbiter Film

PART I of II - See Part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkQh05t075I

This film is a little bit different from my usual Orbiter films. Similar in the respect that I've used a nice soundtrack for the backgroud, but different in that I focus mainly in the cockpit of the DGIV. I really wanted to capture the magic that makes Orbiter, working the MFD's, navigating through space. The film is sped up in many places in the interest of keeping it reasonably short, but in order to get everything in the film both parts together are nearly 20 minutes.

Learning TransX myself only a few weeks ago, thanks to flytandem's video tutorials, this flight most certainly is not aimed at fuel effiency - rather speed with a total flight time of 3 months and 8 days! I hope you enjoy this one, it took many attempts to record a continuous flight to Mars and turned out being harder filming it than actually learning how to use TransX. xD

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• orbiter
• space
• flight
• simulator
• earth
• mars
• dgiv
• delta
• glider
• homhmann
• transfer

[crazym26]

What simulator is this FSX?

[TexFilms]

@crazym26 Orbiter Space Flight Simulator.

[Adam53R]

Can you give a tutorial on how to do this.

[TexFilms]

@Adam53R I have uploaded videos for that already. Check out my channel.

[brianay3000]

is the base called wideawake?

[TexFilms]

@brianay3000 yes.

[Arkalius80]

The end of this video makes me think of the very unique and poignant experience that the first people who go to Mars will encounter... watching their homeworld shrink and turn into a distant point of light in the first couple of weeks. No astronaut yet has had to go without being able to look out the window and see home at some point. I wonder what kind of psychological effect the lack of that view for months may have on a person.

[Todesbaron]

genial!!!

[TheDumbdumb25]

really good video

[TexFilms]

@mmorrell2007 Thank you for your constructive criticism! :)

[frea35g]

I somehow pulled this off with the X2. I arrived in about 80 days at an encounter velocity of around 4k. I think I get worse at orbiter as the days go by.

[Picturestone]

@piplupsingularity thanks