Orbiter Spaceport

(nice video preview by rseferino) My Venera 9 add-on for Orbiter Space Simulator is available at Orbiter Hangar: http://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=4234 Here's the documentation: « Venera 9 (Венера-9, 4V-1 No. 660) USSR unmanned orbiter and a lander mission to Venus. by 4throck – 4throckrn@gmail.com Spacecraft description and implementation in Orbiter space sim. The Venera 9 is implemented as two spacecraft (Orbiter+Lander). The meshes are as accurate as I was able to model them. I tried to follow authentic flight hardware photos as much as possible. Please take into account the fact that Russian hardware on display doesn’t have the thermal covers that were actually used for spaceflight and is sometimes painted with different colors for aesthetic purposes. Therefore, my models will look different from some of the Venera 9 replica photos you might see. Texturing could be improved to give a more uniform thermal cloth cover to the orbiter bus, and other small mesh bugs are pr...

Updated images from the Venera 9 add-on. It took a lot of time to export the models accurately to Orbiter's mesh format, but now I'm happy with the final results. I need to fix one parachute and to add the engine to the orbiter mesh, after which I'll be ready to make a first release. Lander on surface: Lander descending with main parachutes: Part of the entry sphere still atached to the lander: Venera 9 orbiter after lander release: Venera 9 orbiter + lander: save

Venera 9 for Orbiter screenshots. It will take some time to get the configuration right, but I'm making progress. I'm following the Venera-D add-on by kodiak as a guideline and because the landing sequence is similar. Proton launch Entry sphere separation Lander save

Some photos I took at the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace in Paris. It's well worth the visit for any space enthusiast, specially for the 1:1 models and real artifacts of ESA and Russian/Soviet space probes and rockets. Venera 3 orbiter 1:1 model Venera 7 lander Lunakhod 1 model Luna 10 orbiter 1:1 model Soyus T6 reentry capsule (real object)

I'm working on a Venera Venus lander model for Orbiter. It's based on Venera 9 with the surface lights, although not 100% accurate. Also, here's the landing sphere (bottom portion). The lander enters the Venusian atmosphere inside it.