Planck Crater Lunar Observatory (World of 2001: ASO add-on)
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| Planck Crater Lunar Observatory | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Description | |||
| Full name | Planck Crater Lunar Observatory | ||
| Role | Spaceport | ||
| Personnel | 15 | ||
| Construction start date | date unknown | ||
| Commision date | date unknown | ||
| Operated by | USAA | ||
| Basic Data | |||
| Body | Moon | ||
| Dimensions | 1 km x 1 km | ||
| Position | +136.8 (long) | ||
| -57.9 (lat) | |||
| Elevation | 0.0 m | ||
| Infrastructure | |||
| Launchapads | 4 | ||
| Tanks | 1 | ||
| Navigational radio transmitters | |||
| Type : Id | Frequency | Remarks | |
| VOR : LOB | 117.00 kHz | (+136.8, -57.9) | |
Planck Crater Lunar Observatory is a fictional Lunar base featured in World of 2001: A Space Odyssey add-on for Orbiter space flight simulator (a closed source, freeware simulator by Martin Schweiger).
Lunar Observatory is an international scientific facility, located in Planck crater on the far side of the Moon- a free world's counterpart to Tchalinko . In the Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey novel Heywood Floyd runs into a Russian astronomer on Space Station 1 who had been ‘building up the giant radio observatory on the far side of the Moon’. Its probable Clarke imagined a single-dish radio telescope built like the famous Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The Lunar Observatory is an international scientific facility [1].
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[edit] Infrastructure
Spaceport infrastructure is rudimentary as can be expected from the scientific lunar outpost at the far side of the Moon. Among facilities available there are:
- 2 launchpads primarily for Moonbua activities
- 6 storage hangars
- 6 maintenance hangars
- 6 fuel tanks
Scientific infrastructure includes:
- large telescope
[edit] History and evolution
[edit] Position and neighbourhood
Lunar Observatory is located in the middle of the Planck crater on the far side of the Moon at 57.9° S, 136.8° E.
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[edit] Add-on genesis and evolution
[edit] Latest release
[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.
