Phobos Base (World of 2001: ASO add-on)
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| Phobos Base | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Description | |||
| Full name | Phobos Base | ||
| Role | Spaceport | ||
| Personnel | not permanently manned | ||
| Construction start date | date unknown | ||
| Commision date | date unknown | ||
| Operated by | USAA | ||
| Basic Data | |||
| Body | Phobos | ||
| Dimensions | 1 km x 1 km | ||
| Position | -06.300 (long) | ||
| +41.880 (lat) | |||
| Elevation | 0.0 m | ||
| Infrastructure | |||
| Launchapads | 4 | ||
| Tanks | 1 | ||
| Navigational radio transmitters | |||
| Type : Id | Frequency | Remarks | |
| VOR : PPB | 124.00 kHz | (-06.300, +41.880) | |
| VTOL launchpads | |||
| Name | Nav frequency | Remarks | |
| LP1 | 124.10 kHz | square | |
| LP2 | 124.20 kHz | square | |
| LP3 | 124.30 kHz | square | |
Phobos Base is a fictional Phobos base featured in World of 2001: A Space Odyssey add-on for Orbiter space flight simulator (a closed source, freeware simulator by Martin Schweiger).
As desribed in Arthur C. Clarke’s The Lost Worlds of 2001 the Phobos Base is a small base that is manned only by arriving spacecrafts' crews. Phobos Base is as close as Dave Bowman gets to Mars in The Lost Worlds of 2001. Before being recalled to command the Discovery, Bowman has the experimental Polaris 1-XE spacecraft ‘suspended by a network of flimsy cables’ that run between two peaks.[1]
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[edit] Infrastructure
Spaceport infrastructure is rudimentary as can be expected from the unmanned martian outpost on the rims of the explored world. Among facilities available there are:
- 3 launchpads primarily
- 6 storage hangars
- 6 maintenance hangars
- 6 fuel tanks
[edit] History and evolution
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[edit] Position and neighbourhood
Phobos Base is located at 41.880° N, 6.3° W.
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[edit] Add-on genesis and evolution
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[edit] Latest release
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[edit] References
- ^ World of 2001: A Space Oddysey Version 3.0 and Bases of 2001: ASO - documentation of World of 2001: A Space Odyssey add-on by Erik "Sputnik" Anderson, Alain "80MilesHigh" Hosking and Wolfgang "Nautilus" Schwarz.
