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Re: ISS Docking Simulation

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Post by fctorial »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #127
motoboi wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This simulator would be so much better with this music!

For maximum Interstellar experience, type this in the console after the simulator loads: (function() { var clock = new THREE.Clock(); var interstellar = function() { issObject.translateOnAxis(new THREE.Vector3(0, 0, 1), -20); issObject.rotateY(-7.12094334814*clock.getDelta()); issObject.translateOnAxis(new THREE.Vector3(0, 0, 1), 20); requestAnimationFrame(interstellar); } interstellar(); })() (7.12094334814 is "68 R…

Use this, it'll orient the station correctly as well, and it should be possible to win this game as well, judging by a glance over the code.

var clock = new THREE.Clock(); issObject.rotateX(3.14/2); var interstellar = function() { issObject.rotateZ(-7.12094334814*clock.getDelta()); requestAnimationFrame(interstellar); } interstellar();

The numbers on the screen are useless with this though.

Re: ISS Docking Simulation

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Post by elil17 »

zlsa wrote: post #118
elil17 wrote: post #18

I’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.

Are you sure it's ULA? United Launch Alliance build rockets, not capsules. Boeing's Starliner is the closest analog to the SpaceX Crew Dragon.

Yeah maybe it was Boeing - are they associated with ULA or something?

Re: ISS Docking Simulation

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Post by sneak »

arethuza wrote: post #59
doctor_eval wrote: post #37

Nailed it first time!! I was super excited too, cos it was so obvious that this so-called “simulation” was in reality a test to find pilots to save the ISS from some top secret calamity that we don’t know about. Surely this was going to be like in “the last Starfighter”, except that Elon Musk would be the one knocking on my door, needing a new pilot. Sadly it just said “congratulations” :(

It probably increases your chances of being evacuated to space should moon blow up without warning and for no apparent reason.

And to think I’ve already spent the last two months training to ration food, complain about the US president on the internet, not use my legs, and play video games.

I’m basically ready to lead the arklet swarm already.

Re: ISS Docking Simulation

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Post by philwelch »

marbu wrote: post #44
IshKebab wrote: post #10

Surprised they don't have a computer do this.

They do. And I guess that manual operation is possible, but it's rather an emergency option only. Fully automated docking for Soyuz capsules called Kurs[1] was developed in 80's for flights to Mir. When USSR dissolved and it turned out that this system was fully owned by Ukraine, Russian space agency tried to test how viable is to dock via manual bakup docking system TORU[2], which failed and damaged the space statio…

You’re understating the TORU mishap a little. Apparently they still needed KURS to get rangefinding and telemetry from the Progress supply craft, but KURS interfered with the signal for TORU so they shut it off and tried having a guy shine a laser rangefinder out the window at it instead. That didn’t work so they just tried to eyeball it instead, resulting in the crash which destroyed an expensive space station module and forced the crew to scramble to save the station from depressurizing completely.
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