Category: Orbiter - Orbital Stations
Skylab 2 Mission

File Description:
The Skylab space station was launched May 14, 1973, from the NASA Kennedy Space Center by a huge Saturn V launch vehicle, the moon rocket of the Apollo Space Program. Sixty-three seconds after liftoff, the meteoroid shield--designed also to shade Skylab's workshop --deployed inadvertently. It was torn from the space station by atmospheric drag. This event and its effects started a ten-day period in which Skylab was beset with problems that had to be conquered before the space station would be safe and habitable for the three manned periods of its planned eight-month mission. skylab 2 25 May 1973 13:00 GMT. Duration: 28.03 days. Call Sign: Skylab. Backup Crew: McCandless, Musgrave, Schweickart. Nation: USA. Agency: NASA. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral . Launch Complex: LC39B. Launch Vehicle: Saturn IB . LV Configuration: Saturn IB s/n SA-206. Program: Skylab. Class: Manned. Type: Lunar spacecraft. Spacecraft: Apollo CSM. Payload : Apollo CSM 116. Mass: 19,979 kg. Location of Spacecraft: Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, FL. Perigee: 427 km. Apogee: 439 km. Inclination: 50.0 deg. Period: 93.2 min. Epic repair mission which brought Skylab into working order. Included such great moments as Conrad being flung through space by the whiplash after heaving on the solar wing just as the debris constraining it gave way; deployment of a lightweight solar shield, developed in Houston in one week, which brought the temperatures down to tolerable levels. With this flight US again took manned spaceflight duration record.

Filename:	skylab2mission.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	7th January 2003, 04:31:25
Downloads:	907
Author:	Ronald Dandurand
Size:	4 KB

Category: Orbiter - Orbital Stations
Hammerhead Spacedock

File Description:
Well here it is The Hammerhead/ Space dock, I would like to thank Brian Burger and Kyle Weigers for giving me Their kind permission to make this package and to Martin Schweiger for creating Orbiter and making all this possible. Brian Burger's Hammerhead station V2 is included and must be installed if you don't already have it! Kyle Weiger's Star Fleet Museum is included because I'm a Trekker and proud of it!! lol The only modifications made were to space dock, it's about half the size of the original and I have added a couple of docking ports

Filename:	hammerhead_spacedock.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	3rd July 2004, 16:51:01
Downloads:	976
Author:	Mike Leveille
Size:	1.72 MB

Category: Orbiter - Orbital Stations
Almaz Station

File Description:
The Almaz Station was the only armed station that has ever orbited Earth. It also features a TKS ferry docked at the rear port with a Merkur capsule for reentry. This addon compatible with Orbiter build 021202.

Filename:	almaz15.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	3rd December 2002, 13:35:16
Downloads:	2,894
Author:	Manuel Amorim aka McDope
Size:	1.53 MB

Category: Orbiter - Orbital Stations
Salyut 6 Station

File Description:
The Salyut 6 station has been one of the most successful russian projects before the Mir orbital station. This package contains the Salyut station launchable on top of a Proton class launch vehicle. This addon compatible with Orbiter build 030303.

Filename:	salyut17.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	8th May 2003, 19:41:32
Downloads:	2,421
Author:	Manuel Amorim, Felipe Comparini, Richard Croy
Size:	900 KB

Category: Orbiter - Orbital Stations
Hammerhead Orbital Station, v2.0

File Description:
Hammerhead Station is a near-future LEO station with three rotating 'hammers' to provide gravity in the habitation modules. There are six docking ports to handle busy traffic. Hammerhead's animation is provided by Vinka's spacecraft.dll module (included in the zip), and as far as I can tell, was the first station to be released with animated parts.

New with v2.0: - XPDR & IDS freqs. - modified mesh & animation. - fuel capacity added to Hammerhead. - new scenarios at Mars, Titan, Venus & Earth.

Thanks to the nearly 350 people who downloaded the first version!

Filename:	hammerhead02.zip
License:	Freeware, limited distribution
Added:	2nd January 2004, 02:42:36
Downloads:	1,995
Author:	Brian Burger
Size:	475 KB

Category: Orbiter - Orbital Stations
New Skylab 2, 3 And 4 Mission

File Description:
Skylab 2 25 May 1973 13:00 GMT. Duration: 28.03 days. Call Sign: Skylab. Backup Crew: McCandless, Musgrave, Schweickart. Nation: USA. Agency: NASA. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral . Launch Complex: LC39B. Launch Vehicle: Saturn IB . LV Configuration: Saturn IB s/n SA-206. Program: Skylab. Class: Manned. Type: Lunar spacecraft. Spacecraft: Apollo CSM. Payload : Apollo CSM 116. Mass: 19,979 kg. Location of Spacecraft: Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, FL. Perigee: 427 km. Apogee: 439 km. Inclination: 50.0 deg. Period: 93.2 min. Epic repair mission which brought Skylab into working order. Included such great moments as Conrad being flung through space by the whiplash after heaving on the solar wing just as the debris constraining it gave way; deployment of a lightweight solar shield, developed in Houston in one week, which brought the temperatures down to tolerable levels. With this flight US again took manned spaceflight duration record. When the meteoroid shield ripped loose, it disturbed the mounting of workshop solar array "wing" two and caused it to partially deploy. The exhaust plume of the second stage retro-rockets impacted the partially deployed solar array and literally blew it into space. Also, a strap of debris from the meteoroid shield overlapped solar array "wing" number one such that when the programmed deployment signal occurred, wing number one was held in a slightly opened position where it was able to generate virtually no power. In the meantime, the space station had achieved a near-circular orbit at the desired altitude of 435 kilometers (270 miles). All other major functions including payload shroud jettison, deployment of the Apollo Telescope Mount (Skylab's solar observatory) and its solar arrays, and pressurization of the space station occurred as planned. Scientists, engineers, astronauts, and management personnel at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and elsewhere worked throughout the first ten-day period of Skylab's flight to devise the means for its rescue. Simultaneously, Skylab--seriously overheating--was maneuvered through varying nose-up attitudes that would best maintain an acceptable "holding" condition. Because of the loss of the meteoroid shield, however, this positioning caused workshop temperatures to rise to 52 degrees Celsius (126 degrees F). During that ten-day period and for some time thereafter, the space station operated on less than half of its designed electrical system, in the partially nose-up attitudes, was generating power at reduced efficiency. The optimum condition that maintained the most favorable balance between Skylab temperatures and its power generation capability occurred at approximately 50 degrees nose-up. The crew rendezvoused with Skylab on the fifth orbit. After making substantial repairs, including deployment of a parasol sunshade which cooled the inside temperatures to 23.8 degrees C (75 degrees F), by June 4 the workshop was in full operation. In orbit the crew conducted solar astronomy and Earth resources experiments, medical studies, and five student experiments; 404 orbits and 392 experiment hours were completed; three EVAs totalled six hours, 20 minutes. Skylab 3 28 July 1973 11:10 GMT. Duration: 59.46 days. Call Sign: Skylab. Backup Crew: Brand, Lenoir, Lind. Nation: USA. Agency: NASA. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral . Launch Complex: LC39B. Launch Vehicle: Saturn IB . LV Configuration: Saturn IB s/n SA-207. Program: Skylab. Class: Manned. Type: Lunar spacecraft. Spacecraft: Apollo CSM. Payload: Apollo CSM 117. Mass: 20,121 kg. Location of Spacecraft: NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH. Perigee: 422 km. Apogee: 442 km. Inclination: 50.0 deg. Period: 93.2 min. Continued maintenance of the Skylab space station and extensive scientific and medical experiments. Installed twinpole solar shield on EVA; performed major inflight maintenance; doubled record for length of time in space. Completed 858 Earth orbits and 1,081 hours of solar and Earth experiments; three EVAs totalled 13 hours, 43 minutes. Skylab4 16 November 1973 14:01 GMT. Duration: 84.05 days. Call Sign: Skylab. Backup Crew: Brand, Lenoir, Lind. Nation: USA. Agency: NASA. Launch Site: Cape Canaveral . Launch Complex: LC39B. Launch Vehicle: Saturn IB . LV Configuration: Saturn IB s/n SA-208. Program: Skylab. Class: Manned. Type: Lunar spacecraft. Spacecraft: Apollo CSM. Payload: Apollo CSM 118. Mass: 20,847 kg. Location of Spacecraft: National Air and Space Museum (Smithsonian Institution), Washington, DC. Perigee: 422 km. Apogee: 437 km. Inclination: 50.0 deg. Period: 93.1 min. Included observation and photography of Comet Kohoutek among numerous experiments. Completed 1,214 Earth orbits and four EVAs totalling 22 hours, 13 minutes. Increased manned space flight time record by 50%. Rebellion by crew against NASA Ground Control overtasking led to none of the crew ever flying again.

Filename:	skylab_mission.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	11th January 2003, 16:39:14
Downloads:	1,934
Author:	Ronald Dandurand
Size:	6 KB

Category: Orbiter - Orbital Stations
External Tank Stations 1.0

File Description:
External Tank Stations were a popular concept in the 1980s. This add-on simulates three variations of ET Station; a zero gravity station and two rotating artificial-gravity stations. The artificial-gravity stations feature non-rotating docking nodes for shuttle docking. Uses Vinka's spacecraft2.dll (included).

Filename:	et-stations.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	13th January 2006, 06:21:45
Downloads:	539
Author:	Alain Hosking
Size:	2 MB

Category: Orbiter - Orbital Stations
New Olympus Base

File Description:
This is a new version of my original modification of the default Olympus Station scenery. It includes 2 new meshes and is fully compatible with the latest version of Orbiter.

Filename:	cb_olympus2.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	17th December 2003, 06:16:30
Downloads:	965
Author:	Bill Mullins
Size:	9 KB

Category: Orbiter - Orbital Stations
JELAIR - Modoolar Modular Spacestation Systems

File Description:
The JELAIR Modoolar modular spacestation system (fictional), is a bunch of seperate modules that can be launced into LEO on the spaceshuttle. In space you can then assemble as many modules as you like, in various configurations, and thus create almost any size and shape spacestation.

Filename:	jelair-modoolar_systems.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	14th March 2004, 01:26:32
Downloads:	866
Author:	Jacob Larsen
Size:	948 KB

Category: Orbiter - Orbital Stations
Dockyard One Patch For Orbiter 030303 Build

File Description:
Docking port patch for use with Orbiter 030303 build. The patch is a simple docklist adjustment made to the .cfg file where the positions have been modified so you can now dock properly with the Dockyard One station.

Filename:	dockyardpatch030303.zip
License:	Freeware, limited distribution
Added:	10th June 2003, 18:38:46
Downloads:	1,069
Author:	Creator Brian Burger - Patch Contribution Michelle Megan
Size:	144 KB