The loading animation reminds me of the warping effect in EVE Online.
ISS Docking Simulation
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#92They should have a global leaderboard with "shortest time to dock". Tip: focus on one number at a time and zero out any rotation first. Then use only translation to move. Oh, and go fast and hard, just like Jebediah Kerman would. :)
> They should have a global leaderboard with "shortest time to dock". Another IMO interesting metric for a global leaderboard would be "least fuel consumed".
Probably a better one. Also, the one that fires the least near the station, as it's a bit of an annoyance if it causes contamination of sensors on the outside.
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#93It is quite difficult to control with the mouse. It's basically impossible to kill rotation or velocity along a given axis. So one ends up with bang-bang control, constantly oscillating around the target. I am also somewhat horrified to learn that manual flight might be like this to, through the touchscreen[0]. Although there do appear to be some joysticks the astronauts can use, so hopefully this is just training fo…
I used only the mouse. I was able to get pitch, yaw and rotation to zero but never translation.
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#94If there's anything I've learned from Kerbal, the last 100 meters is the easy part - it's getting to the same place at the same time and at the same speed that's the trick. I can't count the number of times I've screamed past my space station at an extra 1000 m/s.
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#96The Unity engine is the best thing to ever happen to aerospace UIs. Makes this feel like the actual future (I think) we all imagine.
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#97They should train an AI to do that.
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#98If there's anything I've learned from Kerbal, the last 100 meters is the easy part - it's getting to the same place at the same time and at the same speed that's the trick. I can't count the number of times I've screamed past my space station at an extra 1000 m/s.
Yup....though usually not at 1km/s (:
I've been playing KSP for years, and did the manual rendezvous in orbit thing a number of times. It's pretty tricky. For my play style, Mechanical Jeb is the way to go. Let the computer do the heavy lifting.
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#99After you've docked a few times, try orbiting the ISS. Remember your basic physics: set up some sideways motion, then keep rotating to face the ISS while thrusting towards it. The sim will end if you stray too far.
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#100I’m glad this is available online. This is a very standard docking UI for spacecraft - everyone in the industry has an almost identical design. ULA has shown a simulator exactly like this in conferences for years now.
I’m reasonably certain an actual interface would have more than just two thruster strength settings... It got a little twitchy near the end there.... really hard to keep the target on the green dot all the way in. Only after two nervous aborts did I realize that I was still within margins even though the target was nowhere to be seen.
The ULA people claimed that there simulator was the one used to train astronauts (it was a full mock up of a capsule with screens behind the windows), and the thruster controls were just buttons