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Moonjs: Apollo Guidance Computer Simulator
- rglover 12y agoThis is awesome! I am decidedly not a math person, however, what would one need to know to interpret the different values being displayed? In other words, what would I need to know as an astronaut using this and how would that influence what I do in space vs. what happens on the ground at Houston?
- armistice 12y agoAll you need is to have is a manual for the codes. This thing is mainly a shorthand assembler computer connected to sensors outputting raw number data.
- Animats 12y agoThat's cute. Now someone needs to hook it up to Kerbal Space Program so you can fly with it.
- armistice 12y agoKSP controls and UI are already a thousand times more powerful than this, though, so you'd have to disable all of those. The game would be unplayable without a ground station helping you out with the tracking, guiance and so on. Which, incidentally, is how this computer is designed to be used.
- JohannesH 12y agoYou should check out the announcements for KSP beta version .90... It seems the tracking station have to be earned now, in career mode. ;) Edit: It seems like the simulated Saturn 5 launch program is spending most of the time keeping the apoapsis relatively close to, and in front of, the rocket. Is this the most efficient way to bring up the periapsis? Edit2: Ah well... Ended up in a fairly elliptical orbit, as the launch program didn't control the apoapsis too well in the end. Final orbit - apoapsis: 1116nmi & periapsis: 99nmi
- Animats 12y agoTrue. But the web version just has zero velocity at all times, so the guidance computer can't do any guidance.
- chrisrhoden 12y agoYou can run through a simulated launch by following the instructions on http://www.svtsim.com/moonjs/checklist.html http://www.svtsim.com/moonjs/checklist.html
- sehugg 12y agoOrbiter already has a "Virtual AGC" mode that hooks into the emulator: http://nassp.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page http://nassp.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page
- TeMPOraL 12y agoMaybe it's possible to interface it with Telemachus? http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/24594-0-25-%282014-10-12%29-Telemachus-%E2%80%93-Telemetry-and-Flight-Control-in-the-Web-Browser http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/24594-0-25-%2820...
- pacomerh 12y agoCool simulator. I'm curious, I was under the impression that the JS after the name was meant for libraries or frameworks not just anything built with javascript, I guess I was wrong.
- martin1b 12y agoAdd some sound effects, including rocket sounds and shaking the screen during launch this would be incredible!! Very nice!!
- olla 12y agoA lot of simulators and emulators in javascript emerging lately. Advances in javascript are making it more useful as a real programming language as it seems.