ISS Adventures: A Kerbalized Recreation of Missions to the International Space Station

[OrbitalManeuvers]

3 hours ago, Beccab said:

...every time you open KSP again you're going to have to go through the process of...

Otherwise known as The Scatterer Ritual. The steps I need for my system are as follows, from the Space Center view:  Click scatterer icon, click Very High, click Apply preset. This sets the long distance shadowing options. Then, click Customize Settings, and turn on Use Projector Mode. This enables usage of SMAA from TUFX profiles.

Disclaimer: anywhere from 0 to 100% of this ritual might be based in voodoo, but not doing this results in the flight scene having smeary shadows.

[Kuiper_Belt]

12 hours ago, lemon cup said:

I’m away from the computer right now and can’t remember where to find this, but there is a way to access the in-game Scatterer settings and manually change shadow quality distance settings. Yours are set to the default low number I reckon.

11 hours ago, alberro+ said:

On the space center screen, scatterer has a little button. There, you can open up the tab called "shadows", and turn on something that says long range shadow casting (or something along the lines of that).

7 hours ago, Beccab said:

It's a bit more complicated than that  - you go to scatterer -> shadows -> long distance terrain shadows, and then you have to change almost all the settings to make it work. These are the values I've been suggested:


The values then stick and remain set correctly forever, but unfortunately the toggle doesn't - every time you open KSP again you're going to have to go through the process of opening scatterer, going to shadows and clicking the button that turns long distance terrain shadows on again

3 hours ago, OrbitalManeuvers said:

Otherwise known as The Scatterer Ritual. The steps I need for my system are as follows, from the Space Center view:  Click scatterer icon, click Very High, click Apply preset. This sets the long distance shadowing options. Then, click Customize Settings, and turn on Use Projector Mode. This enables usage of SMAA from TUFX profiles.

After reading your advice surrounding my computer with various candles to please the voodoo kerbal visual modding gods, watching scatterer inexplicably change the color of my atmosphere to green and inputting the reccomended settings, I would say it was a resounding success!

I'd point specifically to the detail of the SAWs on Atlantis' wing and fuselage. Thank you everyone for your help. These shots always had the lower res shadows so I often tried to avoid them despite being so epic but now I can go wild with them. I am sitting at my desk with a goofy smile plastered across my face because of how spectacular this looks !!!  I cannot thank you guys enough!

[Transformatron]

Reviving an old thread here with this question, but I am curious as to how you operated the canadarms for the construction of the ISS.  Did you have some sort of program to run inverse kinematics on it or did you painstakenly orient the arm to each part yourself?  Also I believe you've added a canadarm1 elbow yaw joint that wasn't there irl! I imagine that did help a lot...

[Kuiper_Belt]

On 9/24/2022 at 9:56 AM, Transformatron said:

Reviving an old thread here with this question, but I am curious as to how you operated the canadarms for the construction of the ISS.  Did you have some sort of program to run inverse kinematics on it or did you painstakenly orient the arm to each part yourself?  Also I believe you've added a canadarm1 elbow yaw joint that wasn't there irl! I imagine that did help a lot...

Sorry for the late responce, I've been rather busy as of late.  I practice the movements for a given mission in the VAB, figuring out the start and end position of each servo. Then I take screensehots of said positions with actual value of the position on screen and recreate them in flight. It speeds up the process a bunch! Hope this helps you out!

Expect STS-115 soon folks! I just fixed a couple problems with my install and hopefully I'll have it up within this week.

[Kuiper_Belt]

Delayed But Not Cancelled!

Life is a bit of a pill when it scheduling and what not!

Edited October 24, 2022 by Kuiper_Belt
Spelling is really difficult :P

[Kuiper_Belt]

STS-115 Coming Soon^TM

[Kuiper_Belt]

STS-115 - Delivery of the P3/P4 Truss Segment - September 9th, 2006

Following STS-121, ISS construction could resume for the first time since the Columbia disaster.  Intitally scheduled for 2003,  Space Shuttle Atlantis was rolled out to Launch Pad 39B three years later on August 2nd, after a two day wait due to weather constraints preventing rollout. While Atlantis was at the pad, NASA was in discussion with the Flight Readiness Review on August 15th and 16th at which a problem was brought to light with the Ku-band antenna which was allegedly improperly installed.  NASA management decided to proceed with a planned launch date on the 27th. Despite this apparent vote of confidence NASA elected to replace the Ku-band antenna while Atlantis was on the pad. Furhter delays manifested in the form of Tropical Storm Ernesto. It was decided that Space Shuttle Atlantis should be rolled back to the Vehicle Assembly Building on August 29th, but as the day progressed, it was decided that  Atlantis couold sustain the storm, resulting in a return to Pad 39B, marking the first time a shuttle had been returned to the pad mid rollback. Eventually a new launch date would be set to the 8th of September.  Approxiomatly 30 minutes from scheduled liftoff, the external tank engine cut-off sensors had failed resulting in a scrub. The launch was attempted again the following day with the crew of six strapping in Atlantis for the eventual liftoff at 10:14:55 AM EDT.

  

After 8 minutes, Atlantis shut down its main engines and coasted to Apoapsis at which point the OMS would complete orbital insertion.  The payload baydoors opened to reveal the P3/P4 truss segment. The P3/P4 truss segment was the second of four major solar installations to the station. The P3/P4 segment had two fold out solar array wings and supplimental batteries, a fold out radiator and  the Solar Alpha Rotarty Joint or SARJ . The whole installation was massive enough for the crew count to be reduced to six instead of seven.  Commanding STS-115 was Brent Jett,  with Chris Ferguson as Pilot and Steve Maclean, Daniel Burbank, Joseph Tanner, and Heidemarie Martha Stefanyshyn-Piper as Mission Specialists. While proceeding with rendezvous manuvers and procedures, the crew conducted a survey of Atlantis's heat shield with the OBSS.

After two days, in a rendezvous orbit, Atlantis arrived at the International Space Station and was positioned for analysis by the crew aboard Expedition 13. 

At this point my installation broke. When I went ahead and rebuilt it I switched to KSRSS Reborn thus a pretty durastic terrain atmosphere and cloud change occurs. Still setteling in on the atmosphere settings, I am trying to recreate the shading I had before the switch! Anyway, back to the mission!

After the Rendezvous Pitch Manuever, Atlantis was repositioned and brought in to dock to PMA-2 connecting at 10:46 UTC on September 11th 2006. 

After docking, the crew immediatly began to prepare to extract the P3/P4 segment from the payload bay. This maneuver would be very complex and difficult, requiring the first of several Canadarm hand off maneuvers throughout the ISS assembly plan. Canadarm 1 would first clasp and extract the P3/P4 segment from the payload bay and bring it to a position for Canadarm 2 to clasp on and bring to the assembly sitew after Canadarm 1 had released it. WHile this occured, Tanner and Stefanyshyn-Piper began the campout preperations for the space walk on Flight Day 4. 

After being attahced to the P1 truss segment,  Tanner and Stefanyshyn-Piper begin their space walk at 10:17 UTC. The EVA is primarly focused on making the proliminary connections and removing launch restraints on the P3/P4 segment allowing for its eventual deployment. Major releases occured on the twin beta gimbal array  units which connect the sollar array wings to the main body of the truss.

The EVA was completed after 6 hours and 26 minutes at 15:43 UTC. After the EVA Dan Burbank and Steve MacLean prepared for the next EVA on Flight Day 5 by beginning camp out procedures in the Quest Airlock. EVA 2 began at 9:05 AM UTC on Septembert 13th with the primary purpose of activating the Solar Alpha Rotary Joint.

After 7 hours and 11 minutes, the EVA finished at 16:16 UTC. The crew on the ground and on the station began to prepare for the solar array deployment process. This would be proceeded by the SARJ being tested.

During its activation the SARJ encountered technical issues resulting in a several hour delay. These would eventually compound pushing the solar array deployyment from Flight Day 5 to 6.

While the solar arrays slowly unfurled, Tanner and Stefanyshyn-Piper prepared for the third and final EVA. Taking place on Flight Day 3 on September 15th, the EVA began at10:00 UTC. The primary objectives of the EVA were to install a radiator to cool the newly installed truss segment.

After 6 hours and 42 minutes outside the station, the EVA completed at 16:42 UTC. In addition to the radiator installation several get ahead tasks we completed. The newly installed radiator was then finally extended.

On Flight Day 9, September 17th, 2006, STS-115 closed the hatches between the ISS and undocked at 12:50 UTC, ending the 6 days 2 hours and 4 minutes attached to the orbital outpost. Atlantis slowly backed away from the station conducitng a 360 degree fly around.

After the flyaround Atlantis seperated from the station and spent the next several days preparing for landing, investigating a co-orbiting object, and reaffirming the integrity of Atlanti's heat shield through use of the Orbital Boom Sensor System. Eventually Atlantis was cleared to land by mission control and on Flight Day 13, Atlantis fired the OMS for the deorbit burn.

After reentry, Space Shuttle Atlantis descended through the heading alignment cone for Shuttle Landing Facility Runway 33 at the Kenedy Space Center.

At 5:21:30 AM EDT, Space Shuttle Atlantis landed at Runway 33 of the Kenedy Space Center on September 21st, 2006, marking the return of the ISS assembly missions. Atlantis would be recovered refurbished and prepared for the launch of P3/P4's sister truss S3/S4. In the meantime Russia would prepare the launch of the next crew rotation flight.

Soyuz TMA-9 Coming Soon!

Edited November 15, 2022 by Kuiper_Belt
IT OCCURS TO ME A PROGRESS MISSION WAS MISSED! IT WILL BE ADDED INBETWEEN THIS AND THE NEXT MISSION AS A BRIEF POST!

[Kuiper_Belt]

Backpedal to Progress M-55 Undocking and Progress M-57 Coming Soon

[Kuiper_Belt]

International Interludes - Progress M-55 Undocking and Progress M-57 Launch and Docking - June 19th, 2006

Note: These events come prior to STS-115 and Expedition 13 EVA 2. I jumped the shark in terms of the mission order!

After 179 Days docked to the ISS, the hatch of Progress M-55 was closed by the crew of Expedition 13 and Progress M-55 undocked from the Pirs docking compartment at 14:06 UTC on June 19th.

Filled with waste from the orbital outpost, Progress M-55 conducted its deorbit burn after seperating and backing off from the ISS , burning up over the Pacific Ocean bringing an end to the 181 day mission at 17:53:14 UTC on June 19th 2006.

Launch and Docking of Progress M-57 - June 24, 2006

Standing by at Site 1/5 of Baikonur Cosmodrome stood Progress M-55's replacement and the next ISS resupply. Aboard M-57 is the usual carepackage of food, water and oxygen as well as new equipment to conduct scientific research abord the outpost. Standing by for launch at 21:08 local time the Soyuz-U Carrier rocket lifted off.

After reaching the two day rendezvous orbit, Progress M-57 maintains the orbit, to eventually reach the International Space Station in two days time.

At 16:25 UTC, Progress M-57 made contact with the Pirs docking compartment on June 26th 2006 marking the beginning of the 204 day stay aboard the orbital outpost.

 Coming Up Next Progress M-56 Undocking, Launch and Docking of Soyuz TMA-9, Return of Soyuz TMA-8 and Launch and docking Progress M-58!

[Kuiper_Belt]

New Trusses!

Gosh are those pretty! Benjee knocked it out of the park once again!

[Yury Gagarin]

On 10/21/2021 at 6:16 AM, Kuiper_Belt said:

Прогресс M1-7 - 26 ноября 2001 года

Экспедиция 3, которая сейчас во второй половине своей миссии на борту Международной космической станции, подошла до такой степени, что им нужно подготовиться к следующей миссии по пополнению запасов прогресса. На площадке 1/5 космодрома Байконур в Казахстане на вершине почтенной ракеты-носителя "Союз-ФГ" стоит на площадке 1/5 космодрома Байконур в Казахстане на вершине почтенной ракеты-носителя "Союз-ФГ". Однако между выходом "Союз ТМ-32" и запуском прогресса произошло несколько мероприятий.

Владимир Дежуров и Фрэнк Калбертсон вышли за пределы станции из Пирса 12 ноября, чтобы проверить Стрелувший кран. Они смоделировали полезную нагрузку, поместив космонавта в конце крана. Кроме того, они подключаются, чтобы помочь активировать автоматизированную стыковочную систему Kurs.

Примечание автора: Я по ошибке использовал космический скают "Сокол" вместо ската "Орлан". Примечание для себя: не смешивайте скафандры в стиральной машине МКС 

Затем, 22 ноября 2001 года, Progress M44 отстыковался от кормового порта на Звезде, чтобы освободить место для Progress M1-7. Позже в тот же день он свался с орбиты.

Без ведома земли или экипажа в то время, Progress M-45 оставил обломки в кормовом порту Звезды, которые предотвратили жесткую стыковку к МКС.

Тем временем на Байконуре Прогресс М1-7 готовится к полуночному запуску.

Достигнув орбиты, Progress M1-7 настроил свою орбиту и усовершенствовал свое приближение к МКС.

Стыковка подтверждена! Наземное управление определяет, что стыковочное устройство не может поддерживать жесткий захват со станции из-за мусора, оставленного Progress M-44. Несмотря на это, 28 ноября в 19:43 UTC Progress M1-7 сделал мягкий захват с помощью МКС. Единственным способом очистки мусора был внеплановый EVA, который был проведен Дезуровым и Тюрином 3 декабря 2001 года.

После этого попытка жесткой стыковки была успешной. Это позволило экипажу 3-й экспедиции начать разгрузку груза, доставленного Progress M1-7, и начать передачу топлива.

После получения Progress M1-7 экспедиция 3 была очень близка к завершению. Пока они работали над разгрузкой продуктов питания, воды, кислорода и доставленных экспериментов, экипажи во Флориде готовили Endeavour к полету, поскольку она привозила их домой и доставляла замену.

Далее, STS-108 и 4-я экспедиция!

And what mod did you use to build Strela crane

[Kuiper_Belt]

On 2/5/2023 at 7:22 AM, Yury Gagarin said:

And what mod did you use to build Strela crane

In those photos its actually the braking ground dlc however for static usecases I believe they are fuel lines from module launch padshowever I would need to double check on that. If I were you I'd go with breaking ground for the functionality, since we're going for the looks . Hope this helps!

[EpicPants]

Sorry if this has been asked before, but it's a very long thread. How is the canadarm controlled in this build? when i use a robotic arm i usually go with the KAL-1000 but i dont know how one would animate a robtic (canadarm2) that is not on the shuttle at launch. I have been looking for a mod that gives more useable contols (something like the Inverse kinematics mod but a bit more user controlled) since 2017. Does anyone know of such a mod?

[BlackDinoShadows]

On 12/28/2022 at 6:58 PM, Kuiper_Belt said:

Launch and Docking of Progress M-57 - June 24, 2006

How did you do to have the white texture on boosters and 2nd stage with the soyuz from "Soyuz TMA and R7" ?

[kspbutitscursed]

will you end up doing dragon 

[Kerbalsaurus]

Hey, uhh, what happened to this thread?

[Kuiper_Belt]

On 8/8/2023 at 10:55 AM, Kerbalsaurus said:

Hey, uhh, what happened to this thread?

I believe your answer awaits you in the attached post

[CollectingSP]

@Kuiper_Belt

A few questions.

1. How did you get the extra cables all over the station? (Particularly the PMA’s?) if these are just flags/decals and have textures for them is there any way I could get ahold of them?

2. How did you get the orange covers for some of the docking ports on the russian segment (or those attached to the top of Zarya?)

3. how are pirs/poisk built? They don’t look like tantares. Also, how did you build the experiment airlock and radiator for nauka? I’ve seen this in a few of your other posts. 

4. Would craft files be possible?

I must say, this is impressive work at how realistic you’ve gotten it. Hats off to you sir!