After a longer dev hiatus than expected, work has started again this week with the Vertical Launch Complex. AU will have 2 of these, both identical.
- Main features:
- Static VAB
- Animated Service Structure and mlp.
- Animated Grapple arms/tower
- Can accommodate rockets up to 120m in height.
- All functions controlled through the MFD
- Beacon arrays to accompany animations
- Possible Secondary features:
- Save and restore of Service Structure and mlp positions and states
- UMMU compatible passenger transfers- can egree/ingress to/from passenger lounge to vessels
- MFD controlled rocket attachment control for roll-out
Here are some early shots of a VLC in it’s various configurations.
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- Pre- Roll-out config
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- Pre-Launch Config
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- Launch config
