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Title: Satellites!
Post by: 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.

Title: Satellites!
Post by: rpm on March 11, 2005, 10:38:33 PM

Link no worky.

Title: Satellites!
Post by: OIO 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. :(

Title: Satellites!
Post by: RTStuka 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.

Title: Satellites!
Post by: rpm on March 11, 2005, 11:26:17 PM

Nope, nothing but a red x. :(

Title: Satellites!
Post by: Reschke 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.

Title: Satellites!
Post by: Chairboy 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.

Title: Satellites!
Post by: mora 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?

Title: Satellites!
Post by: Chairboy 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.

Title: Satellites!
Post by: DiabloTX on March 12, 2005, 10:35:47 AM

This is addictive.  Thanks for the link!!!

Title: Satellites!
Post by: medicboy 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??

Title: Satellites!
Post by: Nash 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.

Title: Satellites!
Post by: medicboy on March 12, 2005, 09:58:55 PM

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

Title: Satellites!
Post by: Halo on March 12, 2005, 11:51:25 PM

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

Title: Satellites!
Post by: Fuzzy 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.

Title: Satellites!
Post by: Furball on March 13, 2005, 05:34:40 AM

i like doing the shotgun effect....

fire off as many as possible in both directions and see how many survive to make orbits :D

I have about 20 zipping round earth for 5 mins or so

Title: Satellites!
Post by: Siaf__csf on March 13, 2005, 05:51:30 AM

I noticed that if you put several satellites close to eachothers they throw eachothers off course.

I had one for 5 minutes in low orbit, running in almost perfect round orbit untill I put a second one close to it. They both collapsed in a few seconds.