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- Some of you may be aware that recently, Orbiter author Martin Schweigers account on the M6 board had been hacked with an imposter posting on the board. While nothing major had occured, it is important to understand that the integrity of the Orbiter software package located on all Orbiter mirror sites has not been compromised.
As a moderator of M6, I can assure you that everything is being done by the administrators to insure this problem will not happen in the future. I will post updates as needed.
- We have now created an IRC Orbiter Chatroom on the SpaceTronix network. If you use mIRC or any other IRC client, you can join by enteing the following information for your IRC Client
IRC Servername: irc.spacetronix.net
Ports: 6660-6669,7000
Channel #Orbiter
When connected, simply type /join #Orbiter
If you do not have an IRC chat client installed, you can use our JAVA IRC Chat Client located * HERE *
Enjoy!
- Now you can view and download the planetary Orbiter addons that we created by clicking THIS LINK or click HERE for our spacecraft addons.
Among the downloads available are:
* USS Enterprise 1701-C
* Cessna 140 Aircraft
* Super High Resolution Earth Textures
* High Resolution Jupiter moons
*And more! Enjoy!
- The Virtual X-Prize is underway at Moonport! More information is available here: Moonport Virtual X-Prize competition
From the forums: These spacecraft would exhisting materials, there would also be a cost limit. (Each team would start out with a balance of X amount of virtual dollars) There should also be a requirement of say 5 atmospheric test flights, or drop tests for cpasules. And that every component needs to be tested in Orbiter. If you have a LES, then it needs to be tested, engines need to be tested. One you are done testing then a flight can occur. Sub-orbital and then another flight must happen with in a week of the previous.
All of this would be done in a small time frame say one or two months.
Please note that registration is required to log into and view information in the Moonport forums.
- Project Mercury 5.0 is progressing along quite well. We have set up a website that we will use for updates. We also have some really nice screenshots of this nexxt version available! Check it out at the Projecy Mercury 5.0 website!
- THE NEW VERSION IS RELEASED! According to its author Martin Schweiger, there are several improvements like improved atmospheric flight model, including support for aerodynamic control surfaces, support for higher resolutions of planetary surface textures (up to 16384x8192), support for particle systems for exhaust and reentry stream rendering, new camera modes, new models for Space Shuttle, International Space Station, Hubble Space Telescope, LDEF satellite, improved Shuttle payload management with support for re-capturing satellites from orbit,new MFD instrument modes, including TransX for interplanetary transfers and more.
- You can download the packages and get more information here.
- Moonport.Org now has a small webhosting service for the Orbiter community. 5 Megs webspace available for free. Host your Orbiter site, pictures, sounds, etc, on Moonport. Additional information, signup, and members site maintenance is available on our Moonport.Org web hosting Site.
This is for ORBITER SITES ONLY and this will be strictly enforced. All non orbiter sites will be deleted the same day.
- NASA documents pertaining to project Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo are now available in PDF format in our Documents section. We will add more information as we obtain it. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view these documents.
- Moonport.Org now has a forum. Click on the link on the navagtion bar on the top. We welcome suggestions for additional forum topics. Send any suggestions to webmaster@moonport.org
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