Author Topic: Satellites! (Read 378 times)

Thrawn · « **on:** March 11, 2005, 10:25:32 PM »

Stolen from agw.

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/applets/satellites.html

I have two in apparently stable orbit.

rpm · « **Reply #1 on:** March 11, 2005, 10:38:33 PM »

Link no worky.

OIO · « **Reply #2 on:** March 11, 2005, 10:49:16 PM »

it does work. and it runs on my netscape and IE browsers too.

nifty program

Still.. cant get a stable one.. freaking moon pulls the most 'stable' ones i have and plays hokey with em.

RTStuka · « **Reply #3 on:** March 11, 2005, 10:58:36 PM »

I launched like a hundred of them and manged to get three of them to remain stable.

rpm · « **Reply #4 on:** March 11, 2005, 11:26:17 PM »

Nope, nothing but a red x.

Reschke · « **Reply #5 on:** March 11, 2005, 11:52:41 PM »

I have launched over a hundred or so it seems and have about twelve orbiting in eliptical orbits with three in a stable low orbit and one orbiting the moon in an eliptical orbit.

Chairboy · « **Reply #6 on:** March 12, 2005, 12:21:54 AM »

I have two satellites that have been in orbit for the last hour or two. They're elliptical orbits, and the moon influences both, but they've been stable. I had one that appeared stable for 10 minutes before... re-entering, so I'm leaving the window open.

Oh, and I didn't use the 'shotgun approach', I experimented with different orbits.

mora · « **Reply #7 on:** March 12, 2005, 05:36:30 AM »

Can't get it work.

I had a very nice program like that some 15 years ago on a Mac, I believe it was called "Gravitation". Does anyone know if there are similars programs available for dowload?

Chairboy · « **Reply #8 on:** March 12, 2005, 10:01:17 AM »

I remember Gravitation, great program!

I still have two orbiting since yesterday, so I guess it's stable.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #9 on:** March 12, 2005, 10:35:47 AM »

This is addictive. Thanks for the link!!!

medicboy · « **Reply #10 on:** March 12, 2005, 09:52:48 PM »

it seems a lot harder to get stable orbits in the same direction of rotation at the moon... any one else find this??

Nash · « **Reply #11 on:** March 12, 2005, 09:57:21 PM »

Ayup, same here. Also found it impossible to get an actual orbit around the moon like someone here managed to.

medicboy · « **Reply #12 on:** March 12, 2005, 09:58:55 PM »

I can get maybe a min or 2 around the moon, then byebye

Halo · « **Reply #13 on:** March 12, 2005, 11:51:25 PM »

Cute, like coins spiraling around the money pit at the mall.

Fuzzy · « **Reply #14 on:** March 13, 2005, 05:08:14 AM »

I've got 3 going currently. Had one doing a figure-8 around the earth & moon for about 5 minutes before it became an ELE for the poor planet below.