World of 2001

Project home: World of 2001 homepage, available on Avsim.com or OrbitHangar Author: Erik "Sputnik" Anderson, Alain "80MilesHigh" Hosking and Wolfgang "Nautilus" Schwarz Current version: Unknown Compatibility: Unknown

The World of 2001 is a project to create the spacecraft and spaceports from the movie "2001" and the related novels by Arthur C. Clarke as addons for orbiter. While not all spacecraft or spaceports are mentioned in the movie or a novel, they can be considered logical extensions of the canon spacecraft.

The project is currently maintained by Erik "Sputnik" Anderson, Alain "80MilesHigh" Hosking and Wolfgang "Nautilus" Schwarz. The latest version is 3.1.

History

Changes since 3.0

• Soviet space-to-space craft added – Gagarin moon lander, Komarov inner-system transport, Patsayev tanker, Dobrovolsky engine testbed, Bonadrenko self-deploying space station, Merkur experimental-engine testbed, Skorpion patrol corvette.
• Herculis cargo transport and Draco patrol corvette added.
• Space Station Four and Three added. Station V Early and Complete added. Docking to the centerline port of Stations Four and Five will now cause traffic control to shift you to a side port, freeing up the centerline port for use. Press undock to go back to the centerline port for departure.
• Upper stages (Centaur-O and Titov G) added.
• Orion II/III and Titov autopilot reworked for better flight-path-angle management and a bit more turning ability. Also, throttling issue fixed; no non-intuitive dashing off at max power now.
• Many satellites and payloads added. Landing module added that permits a re-entry and soft landing for ballistically launched Mars cargoes. So that's how the Mars bases were built!
• Attach point handling added – craft can grapple satellites and cargo, making it possible to trans-ship from Earth launch to a deep-space craft to its final destination. Now the Taurus has something to do!
• M-53 Soviet SST added.
• New bases: Aberporth, Brest, Cuxhaven, Hainan. All the major space powers can launch their nuclear weapons into orbit now.
• MANY scenarios added!

Changes since 2.3

• The Sol_2001 environment has been created, containing numerous 2001 bases and locations without fooling with your base sol.CFG environment.
• Lost Worlds of 2001 has been scoured for other solar system installations. In addition to Clavius and Tchalinko, Port Lowell on Mars and Cytherean Station One in orbit about Venus, have been added.
• The Moonbus (and Soviet Rocketbus) has been added.
• The 2001 EVA astronaut has been added.
• The Orion III has been completely re-meshed and re-coded. Now includes moving control surfaces, opening door, landing gear. Also includes Orion II cargo model, Orion I drop tank, and Orion IV booster stage.
• The Soviet Titov V spaceplane has been added, with capabilities analogous to the Orion.
• Kulch's steam catapult added at Canaveral and Baikonur to launch the spaceplanes as described in the book (horizontally).
• Aries Ib completely re-meshed and re-coded. New variants on the Aries are included – cargo variant, Mars variants, the Taurus orbital tug, and the Aquarius interplanetary transport. Aries is now a tailsitter
• The satellites seen in the first space scenes of the film have been added, to give those cargo spaceplanes something to put in orbit.
• The Boeing 2707 SST has been added, to fly Floyd on the first leg of his journey. Floyd's Journey scenarios extensively reworked.

Weblinks

• World of 2001 homepage

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