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NASA's Space Shuttle, officially called the Space Transportation System (STS), was the spacecraft used by the United States government for its human spaceflight missions until July, 2011.
Space Shuttle Atlantis | |
Type | Spacecraft |
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FDM | JSBSim |
--aircraft= | SpaceShuttle |
Status | Beta |
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Cockpit | |
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Space Shuttle Enterprise is on display at the National Air and Space Museum.
Development status/Issues/Todo
Outside:
- The 3D model is finished: Gears, Ailerion, Ruder with Speedbrake, Doors, Robotarm, Parachutes(!)
Cockpit:
- 3d cockpit is not available, it is in development now
General:
- HUD available with a lot of information for a orbit flight and returning to any base airport
- Because the shuttle starting facility is not present now, we have to start up like a airplane and going to a pitch hold of 23 degree
- In Orbit control with Orbit Control Engines for 10 directions
- Orbit manouver with Orbit Manouver engines, pitchably for changing the orbit, turning nose to opposite direction for brake manouver
- Ruder Control Engine for holding and changing heading in Orbit
- Pilot and Main Parachute with original functionality
New Version: latest update:06march2015 (engines + FDM update)
The new version of the Space Shuttle has now 3 main engines, 2 booster rockets, 5 orbit control engines (with reversers, makes control of 10 directions), 2 orbit manouver engines (pitchably for real manouver in orbit), braking parachutes, smoke for all engines (carneval edition with coloured smoke), robotarm, doors, launching satelit and a man in the dock. All animations are in MP-modus, full orbit manouver system to hold a stable orbit at 150.000-300.000 ft, mach 30, HUD with extra information, 2 versions for MP-modus (Columbia and Atlantis), light system, help menue, all sounds, new JSBSim FDM. Development by HerbyW.
Variants
- Enterprise
- Challenger
- Columbia ** Available Now ¡
- Discovery
- Endeavour
- Atlantis ** Available Now ¡
Aircraft help
Cheat sheet
Key | Function |
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⇧ Shift + B | Set or unset the parking brake. |
Control + B or use s | Deploy the speedbrakes. |
G | Raise the landing gear. |
⇧ Shift + G | Lower the landing gear. |
] | Lower flaps. |
[ | Raise flaps. |
H | Hide or show the HUD. |
F2 | Deploy parachute. |
F11 | Open autopilot dialog. |
:Df | Open Payload and Fuel dialog. Case sensitive. |
Compatibility
The SpaceShuttle is been developing and tested on several platforms, including GNU/Linux, Windows XP, Windows 7, and Mac OS X with FlightGear 3.2 3.4 and GIT.
Thanks to...
- John Berndt and all the developers who have contributed to FlightGear
Test pilots
- Michat
- Signal
- You
Technical systems assistance
- D-LEON
Custom Propulsion integration assistance
- D-LEON
Gallery
Holding for departure on the back of the Antonov An-225