Space Shuttle Return to Launch Site after an engine failure in first stage due to Helium Leak.
Real Guidance ( OPS 6 and PEG 5) is used to steer safely the Shuttle back to the Cape.

A good reading to understand better what is happening during an RTLS is the intact ascent abort workbook at RTLS section: https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/...


Flight Gear Forum: https://forum.flightgear.org/

Wiki FG Space Shuttle: http://wiki.flightgear.org/Space_Shuttle

RTLS tuto: http://wiki.flightgear.org/Flying_the...

RTLS checklist (page 42/43): http://wiki.flightgear.org/Flying_the...


00:00 Launch:    • Space Shuttle RTLS Abort with OPS 6 r...  
01:00 Failure:    • Space Shuttle RTLS Abort with OPS 6 r...  
01:55 SRB sep:    • Space Shuttle RTLS Abort with OPS 6 r...  
04:30 Pitch Powered Around:    • Space Shuttle RTLS Abort with OPS 6 r...  
06:20 MECO:    • Space Shuttle RTLS Abort with OPS 6 r...  
07:45 Entry:    • Space Shuttle RTLS Abort with OPS 6 r...  
10:25 HAC and Landing    • Space Shuttle RTLS Abort with OPS 6 r...  


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