Starship SN1 Vizzy Automation

I am in the process of making a highly detailed replica of the SN1 Starship. ( The design of which is subject to change.) It will be built almost exactly the same as the real thing, featuring as little details as the bulkhead on the inside of the nose and the header tanks.

Proposal

I am looking for someone who has a lot of knowledge of Vizzy and who is willing to help, fully simulate the 20km flight. Including the ascent and descent, using the body flaps for the main area of control, and finally the landing.
You MUST have extensive knowledge of Vizzy as this is a very ambitious and complicated program. It is also preferred that you have knowledge of the Starship vehicle, or the willingness to learn about it.

Flight Plan

As shown in the picture, the vehicle will fly up to 20km and then perform a pitch over maneuver in which it will fall parallel to the ground like a skydiver, the vehicle will have to correct itself using the four flaps featured on its body to control the descent. Just before it hits the ground it will flip retrograde and fire its engines to land propulsively.

If you are interested in helping, please leave a comment below.

Also, if you know anyone who is good with Vizzy and who might be interested in helping, please tag them below.

Gallery

(All early prototypes images.)



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    8,458 crowxe

    @Teague
    i'm crowxe1221 on instagram

    +1 4.8 years ago
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    2,073 Teague

    @crowxe I have WhatsApp, but that’s it, I apparently don’t like contacting the outside work apparently, haha. And also Twitter or Instagram if that doesn’t work.

    +1 4.8 years ago
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    8,458 crowxe

    @Teague
    ugh no, discord took me weeks to get around it so i'm not sure is it me or the app. just let me know what chat app you have, i may have it

    4.8 years ago
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    2,073 Teague

    @crowxe I do not have either, would you need me to get discord?

    4.8 years ago
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    8,458 crowxe

    @Teague suicide burn is an easy 2 lines only, if you have discord or skype we can chat over it. if it took off, flipped and landed tail first then my vizzy can be applied to it . here's the video

    4.8 years ago
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    2,073 Teague

    I have flown it fully manually in the fall and landing bit with the base design, it is able to flip without any other “nonexistent” surfaces.
    I actually have the first half of the program (though I don’t know how “good” it is) that is able to get it to 20km and fall mostly controlled to the ground. I need some help/guidance in programming the suicide burn and the flip though, that’s the bit I’m having trouble with right now.
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    4.8 years ago
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    8,458 crowxe

    i made a vizzy program that worked from free fall until landing right in the middle of OISLY and others (Noname101) used the same program to land it from orbit on a smaller ship. i would like to help. i don't know much about starship though.
    the only problem is that the center of body lift is located right on the CG , meaning that when fuel is consumed, the center of lift drops down along with CG and there will be no torque arm to flip the craft to it's expected position, there will be tinkering and adding fins that don't exist in reality in order to compensate for that CG/CL issue

    4.8 years ago

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