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== Development news == | == Development news == | ||
=== Spaceflight === | |||
Development and test of spaceflight in FG continues. Based on information in the official crew manual, the Space Shuttle has received various digital autopilot (DAP) modes for maneuvering in orbit and an improved control logic for thrust vectoring during ascent. A guidance computer for re-entry has been added to aid trajectory management during this rather challenging part of the mission. The spacecraft has now been tested for a successful de-orbit maneuver aimed at a pre-selected landing site. | |||
Work on simulating the aerodynamical, thermal and structural limits of the orbiter as well as damage is currently in progress. | |||
[[File:Shuttle Cockpit.jpg|400px|Cockpit of the Space Shuttle as of April 2015]] | |||
[[File:Shuttle map.jpg|400px|Groundtrack map for spaceflight]] | |||
The addition of a 3d cockpit has also begun - currently most instruments are simply static textures, but several displays should be functional soon. Other developments are more generally useful beyond the Shuttle - such as a groundtrack map and improvements to the Earthview rendering engine using procedural overlay texturing, making textures appear at higher resolution than they actually are. | |||
Test flights using a Nasal-controlled object on an analytically computed Kepler orbit suggest that docking to an AI space station or interactions with satellites should in fact be quite possible to implement. | |||
Modelers interested in realistic spaceflight are very welcome to come aboard and help taking Flightgear to the limits. | |||
=== Understanding Rembrandt and VSync === | === Understanding Rembrandt and VSync === | ||