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Of course there's orbital drift, even on the scale of 45 km, and you shouldn't bump into it, not fry it with thrusters so. The orbit matching procedure got me after prograde burn to 45 km distance to the ISS, so I picked up the transponder signal from there and 'just' flew over. It'd be pretty cool to have the original instrumentation of Atlantis though! Especially the visibility is pretty lousy, pretty views from inside to Earth are surprisingly rare if you don't rotate the shuttle to get it.

I think the instrumentation is fairly Orbiter-generic, but the layout has the look and feel of the real thing. That's the workplace, the 3d cockpit of Atlantis.

There's an MMU module which allows you to float out and inspect the cargo bay and the satellite - but it's pretty scary, you can't cheat, you actually have to maneuver back to the airlock if you want to go back in! So, inspected the satellite using the MMU, then released the satellite and waited to catch up with ISS, enjoying the view. I had launched into a fairly good orbit already with 240 km perigee and 370 km apogee, and since I was trailing ISS by about 1000 km, I decided to leave it that way since that would make me catch up with the station about 5 orbits later, just made the remaining orbital plane adjustment to a deviation of just 0.4 deg and then took a spacewalk. There is a manipulator arm simulated which moves with glacial speeds, so you can watch as it tranquilly unfolds, grapple the satellite and move it out of the cargo bay.

Once up, the first task on the way to the apogee was to get the satellite out of the cargo bay. I launched with a 15 deg mismatch and managed to get this down to 1.5 deg by the time I had an apogee of 370 km and had to cut thrust and jettison the tank. Flying the Vostok from FG which comes with the 150 km altitude restriction has taught me pretty much all there is to know about altitude management during launch, so the only challenge was to use an orbital plane intersection indicator and vector thrust during the ramp-up to orbital velocity such that the planes of ISS and STS-101 are really aligned, while keeping an eye on the thrust figure (it shouldn't get above 3g) and vertical speed.

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Orbiter out of the box doesn't have any visual cue in launch position where the compass directions are, you have to fly horizontally to get good readings, so I needed to download a launch compass tool to get the liftoff roughly correct. So I precalculated the launch azimuth for ISS manually. However, there's not much reserve, it carries one into an orbit, but not further, so the key part is altitude and orbital plane management, which basically starts right after clearing the atmosphere at 70 km. Me blasting off into space - this is the part when the Shuttle has lots of thrust. Tool of simulation is Orbiter 2010, I'll later comment on my impressions on Orbiter vs. The Shuttle is a very sedate spacecraft, it turns slowly, it doesn't have too much propellant to do orbital adjustments quickly, and once the SRBs and the tank are gone, the remaining thrust doesn't get you anywhere in a hurry - so this really needs time - I think I spent a grand total 8 hours real time flying (using time fast-forward) doing this. no autopilot, advanced computational tools, just basic orbital mechanics indicators and such.). Since I'm traveling (again) for the last weeks, I find myself with long evenings in hotel rooms, and I've decided that this time I will use the opportunity to do something I've wanted to do a while - fly a simulated mission with the Space Shuttle manually (i.e.

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