Celestia Forums

Such kind of books I learning before creating trajectories of spacecrafts for Celestia... one from them called "The Mechanics of Space Flights"... and the documents from NASA archive... it's help a lot...

I made this! New and for this moment finale version of trajectory for Luna-2... Now it near the same place... I guess that these errors can be accepted...

Added after 17 minutes 28 seconds:
Next task... SWIFT (USA)... Gipparcos (ESA)... and TRAAC (USA) satellites...

I have found information about inclination of Luna-2 trajectory... and it's about 65 degrees in relation to the Earth Equator... so I made new trajectory for Luna-2... now it more correct, but still some errors because of Celestia.. :biggrin: In the pictures, start from Baikonur (Kazakhstan),,, and ...

SPITZER ? Yes Yes, Gironde... I had thought of Akatsuki (Planet-C), Nozomi (Planet-B), Suisei (Planet-A) and Sakigake Suisei and Sakigake are identical Nozomi (Planet-B) and Planet-C (Akatsuki) are on HORIZONS and also Hayabusa1 and 2 which we talked about a lot these days (all 2 on HORIZONS) That ...

thinking about this too...

New SWIFT model in Sunday 11...

There are still 22!

*** Luna-2 *** add-on...

Luna-2 before impact... just several seconds... In real it occurred 1959, 13 December, 21:02:24 UTC... In Celestia it occurred 1959, 13 December, 21:02:05 UTC... about impact place... in real it impacted the Moon's surface east of Mare Imbrium with coordinates 29,1 degrees North latitude - 0 degrees...

Is there any possibility thet you will realize the next Mars 2020 Mission Rover?

Okay Goofy... I will think about it...

*** Luna-3 *** add-on....

Added after 2 minutes 3 seconds:
Luna-2 add-on soon...

This is really incredible. You're doing amazing work.

Thanks, Sirius_Alpha...

Because there is no a lot of data about this flight and I don't have the computers like in NASA, in my version of the mission, entrance in the atmosphere and next decay of Luna-3 spacecraft occurred in the night sky over the west part of the South America... on December 9, 1959, 07:14:12 UTC...

after launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan)...

in the pictures, Luna-3 at minimum distance from the Moon... min distance: 6182,2 km in Celestia ( 6200 km in Wikipedia)... Closest approach: 1959, October 6, 14:18:20 UTC in Celestia ( 14:16:00 UTC in Wikipedia)...

I will present Luna-3 model and add-on here during 12 hours... but job is done already...

Luna 3 model after assigning materials, before texturing... (false colors)

Trajectory for Luna 3 spacecraft is ready... add-on come soon...

Beautiful achievement!
The progress of the mission is remarkably described even if I do not master BodyFrame and Timeline which are poorly explained in the wikipedia pages for Celestia. This deserves a lesson on the subject.

Thank you Gironde!

Yes, your request SpaceFanatic64... :smile: :smile: :smile: watch how changes the orbital frame reference on December 4, when this spacecraft was in the process of entering into orbit around Venus... I like this model and add-on... I have learned a lot of new things in modeling and in making traject...