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  • ...e||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNl0d5Gj5xY ORBITER 2016 - Tidal Force Orbital Dumbbell Physics Demonstration]||00:02:56||21 April 2017 ...atch?v=jA9UsvJDSI4 Orbiter 2016 - When Will Roadster And Starman Pass Mars Orbital Simulation And Encounter Prediction]||00:03:29||11 February 2018
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  • ===Atmospheric/Orbital Vessels=== ====OSHV (Orbital and Surface habitation vessel)====
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  • ...cle and its speed, and is about 40° for the space shuttle from orbital speed down to about mach 10. ...the spacecraft always has an appropriate angle of attack for your present speed. The shuttle DAP does a decent job of this, even though it always keeps the
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  • ...tmosphere before conventional rocket engines are used to provide the final orbital insertion. * Callouts for altitude, speed, damage, warning, system failure, and docking distances.
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  • ;GS:[[ground speed]] ;IAS:indicated air speed [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicated_air_speed]
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  • ...EO) from a runway, flying to an orbit that is well aligned with the Moon’s orbital plane (most or all of the alignment will be done by waiting for a “launch ...ast). The Transfer MFD will only work if you and the target share the same orbital plane. That’s what you’ll have to take care of first, making sure your
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  • ...effects which will prevent massive objects in real life from reaching the speed of light. ...bit thing bothers me – a spacecraft can circle the Earth for years at high speed without requiring power or slowing down? How does that work? And what about
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  • !bgcolor="lightsteelblue" colspan="2"|Planetary orbital element centennial rates |width="30%"|Orbital speed at surface||align="right" width="30%"|7328 m/s
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  • ...or influence the reference causes. The user has the ability to control the speed and accuracy of the trajectory engine. The modifications can be made from t The core uses the Encke-Fehlberg methods which allow a high speed trajectory prediction. In this version of the trajectory engine the graphic
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  • ...s page has a selector for MJD (date), but this is a reference date for the orbital elements, it does not change the date of the scenario. Acceleration – Change in velocity (change in speed or direction)
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  • ...become useless and they have to deploy parachutes to control their landing speed. ...or this it uses the atmosphere to dissipate its kinetic energy. Due to the speed of entry into the atmosphere, air molecules are quickly compacted in front
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  • ...that of Earth, the Moon is a great place to practice hover flight and low-speed maneuvers. It’s also very easy to achieve orbit on the Moon, but hover-to ...ypes of speed, see the Orbiter manual), altitude (ALT, '''km'''), vertical speed (VS, m/s, plus is moving up, minus is moving down), acceleration (ACC, m/s<
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  • ...has only thrusters, no main engines, making it difficult to make any large orbital changes. Definitely NOT for reentry or landing – it has no heat protectio ...t saving you from a fall? How accurately can you stop over a pad on a high speed run into Brighton Beach? Can you orient yourself pro grade or retro grade w
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  • ...has only thrusters, no main engines, making it difficult to make any large orbital changes. Definitely NOT for reentry or landing – it has no heat protectio ...t saving you from a fall? How accurately can you stop over a pad on a high speed run into Brighton Beach? Can you orient yourself pro grade or retro grade w
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  • Rendezvous & docking is a fundamental and practical application of orbital mechanics. The Apollo Moon landing missions (1969-1972) depended on the abi ...this chapter. The title “Dancing in the Dark” is the title of a chapter on orbital maneuvering in Wayne Lee’s excellent book on space flight, To Rise From E
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  • ...orbital plane. However, it is not the same as relative inclination between orbital planes. Typical situations are: How much the escape vector is out of the so RIn is a relative inclination it used to display the angle between orbital planes. The target plane is always one of these planes. And the other one i
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  • ...on the Orbit MFD on the right – and right away something looks wrong. The orbital diagram shows that your periapsis is ''inside'' the circle representing the ...but are not directly needed in this situation. For example '''T''' is the orbital period, the amount of time needed for one complete revolution around the Ea
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  • ...e, you will be in orbit around the Sun, and your excess ΔV will add to the orbital velocity of the Earth that you start out with (around 30 km/s). ...to understand discussion of escape trajectories and many other aspects of orbital mechanics and space flight, see Wayne Lee’s book To Rise From Earth (refe
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  • ...megabytes of free disk space. For best results with Orbiter 2006, your CPU speed should be 1 GHz or better, you should have at least 256 MB of RAM, and a gr ...about highway driving speed (67 mph or 108 kph), and 200 m/s is about the speed of a (slightly slow) jet airliner (447 mph or 720 kph).
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  • ...een a great four and a half days with you (or 25 minutes at Play at Record Speed :) ). | Let's start reducing speed.
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