How to Rendezvous with Agena
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- Rendezvousing with another vehicle in space can be quite a challenge to understand. During Project Gemini, multiple rendezvous objectives were used to learn and understand how to correctly do this, as it was to land humans on the Moon during Apollo.
In this video, I will show you how to execute a rendezvous burn in Project Gemini, and how to close in on the target vehicle.
Image Credits: NASA/David Scott
The most underated flight sim of all times! What a labour of love👋! Please keep posting your unvaluable vids👌
Thank you! :D
I hold a commercial pilot licence. I also love serious simulation. Thanks to this work of love I invested £££ in books to learn as much as I need to learn some orbital mechanic and the systems and operations of spacecrafts. I cannot thanks you enough for such work of love. I hope the simulator will keep developing with realism as the top priority ; study level simulation is just amazing.
I just did my first successful Agena rendezvous and docking to Agena thanks to this video!
You are awsome in preserving the technology that led us to space. If you are not clear, these procedures will be forgotten in 50 yers more, and as Rentry is preserved now not as a game or a leisure stuff, but as a piece of History, next generations will have an idea of how pioneers of spaceflight entered the cosmos...
These videos are a great help! Given that, in campaign mode, you don't get to try out the Agena's engine, can you do it in free mode? I've seen the option in the checklists but it doesn't seem to activate no matter what I do.
Hi! Thank you! Yes, you can power up the engine in free play missions, just make sure you follow the checklist/commandlist as it requires a few encoder commands to ignite it.
cool Kerbal space Program with RP1 and FASA Mod in detail. 😊
This is sexy as hell! This is what everyone playing Kerbal should graduate to.
Idea. Provide the requested burns as prefilled PADs in the game
Yeah I will eventually try to render the data in a more friendly manner, this is a first step in the PADs implementation.
In the free mode, T-10 launch titan-Gemini, I was placed in an artic orbit with an inclination of 71 grades instead of 28.9 that is the grades of the 160x160 target orbit, is this a bug, or I actually did something wrong?
By the way I followed the checklist correctly
Make sure the platform is given enough time in PRE-LN after you press START on the computer, before setting the computer module to ASCENT. It requires at least 30 seconds without timescale.
@@ReentryAnOrbitalSimulator I didn't gave it time to allign, I'll wait thirty seconds in the next time, thanks for answering.
Can't do it, 12 hours a day for the last 3 days and I just drift past the module with Patrick in it, I get within 10,000 feet but, then I drift so far away I can't see them anymore, and it wants me to get with in 300 feet...WTF!! 😡😡😡
Sorry to hear that, it sure is very hard. Practice is the key, and once you do it it will get easier :)
Being this is a year old you may have since figured it out. When you get within 10K feet of the other spacecraft you use the radar and the FDAI with radar and I believe attitude settings, plus the Computer set to RNDZ. Aim your space craft with RTS controls at the other spacecraft by way of the crosshairs on the FDAI. Then you zero out the IVI, using small a combination of RTS and linear controls. How I did it was I tried to keep up/down and left/right zeroed then make bursts of forward to close the distance. Also if you are on the dark side of the orbit, the flashlight does slightly help illuminate the other craft although there is a docking light you can turn on. The flashlight can be aimed around without changing the space craft orientation though.