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[[Image:Probe1.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Probe (a Luna E3) in an unglamorous LEO]] | [[Image:Probe1.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Probe (a Luna E3) in an unglamorous LEO]] | ||
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| − | + | 1=[http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=58685&package_id=124522 Luna E3 'Probe' (CVEL) at CCCP Fleet]| | |
| − | + | 2=Dave Rowbotham and Jógvan 'C3PO' Trondesen | |
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==History== | ==History== | ||
| − | ''Dealer McDope'' created a series of Soviet-era meshes between 2002 and 2004 included in these was a basic, green, Luna E3 mesh. The Luna E3 was the first probe to photograph the | + | ''Dealer McDope'' created a series of Soviet-era meshes between 2002 and 2004 included in these was a basic, green, Luna E3 mesh. The Luna E3 was the first probe to photograph the 'dark side' of The Moon, launched atop an R4 booster. |
When the [[CCCP Fleet|CCCP Team]], co-ordinating on [[IRC|OrbiterIRC]], set about writing C++ code for McDope's meshes the generic test object of choice became the Luna E3. Sticking to the naming convention McDope adopted of simply calling it ''Probe'', an in-joke cropped up by which whenever a developer conducted a flight test, cries of ''Hail Probe!'' would abound. | When the [[CCCP Fleet|CCCP Team]], co-ordinating on [[IRC|OrbiterIRC]], set about writing C++ code for McDope's meshes the generic test object of choice became the Luna E3. Sticking to the naming convention McDope adopted of simply calling it ''Probe'', an in-joke cropped up by which whenever a developer conducted a flight test, cries of ''Hail Probe!'' would abound. | ||
| − | This in-joke gained popularity when a post to the old M6 off-topic forums introduced the concept of ''Hailing Probe'' to a wider audience with a thread titled ''The Cult of the Probe''. So ensued the second longest-running thread in the old Forum's history. Without a single flame. | + | This in-joke gained popularity when a post to the old M6 off-topic forums introduced the concept of ''Hailing Probe'' to a wider audience with a thread titled ''The Cult of the Probe''. So ensued the second longest-running thread in the old Forum's history. Without a single flame. |
| − | + | Such was the following of the thread that it spanned two years and even spawned ''Probe Day'' (4th October -- the date of both Luna E3's launch, and two years earlier, that of Sputnik 2, the first artificial satellite). | |
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| − | Such was the following of the thread that it spanned two years and even spawned | ||
Unfortunately, with the migration of the Orbiter forums to a new system in Februrary 2006, the thread was not ported. | Unfortunately, with the migration of the Orbiter forums to a new system in Februrary 2006, the thread was not ported. | ||
| − | + | ==Links== | |
| + | [[Image:Probeday9.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Probe (a Luna E3) on a fanciful Saturn flyby]] | ||
| − | + | [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=58685&package_id=124522 Luna E3 at [[CCCP Fleet]]] | |
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| − | + | [http://orbit.m6.net/v2/read.asp?id=15806 Archived M6 Cult of The Probe thread] | |
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| − | [[Category: | + | [[Category:Addons]] |
| − | + | [[Category:Vessel addons]] | |
| − | [[Category:Vessel | + | [[Category:CVELVessels]] |
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