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I want to create a model of the most famous rocket stage in the world called Centaur... I guess that everyone here know about this great rocket boosters... today I started work with this project... (Centaur has been designed to be the upper stage of space launch vehicles and is used on the Atlas V. ...

The textures for the Kepler model was modified...

I have modified TESS model... even the engine was changed... now, you can experiment with a textures as you want... I added more oppertunities for it...

Absolutely outstanding job, thank you!

Thank you too, Tomasz...

Now you can experiment with textures... JPEG

experimenting with a textures for the TESS model...

Having gone through what was available on NASA, you did like me, prepare for the future.

The Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) is a satellite designed to investigate changes in the Earth's ionosphere. It is scheduled to launch on a date to be determined, 2018/2019 as part of NASA's Explorers program and operated by UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory. ICON will study the intera...

What an excellent quality of the image!

Thanks Croc... I am trying...

Yet Blender looks very good. I found that Blender exports in 3DS (and others) but never the included textures. Gironde... try with Wings 3D... I made my first satellite 3D model with this software... and it export textures and other things... in 3ds as well... Gipparcos model can be created with Wi...

just finished work with WFIRST (Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope) model by NASA... this is ready for Celestia now... but it will start in 2020... The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) is a NASA infrared space observatory that was recommended in 2010 by United States National Research...

I have TGO spacecraft in Celestia from the start of this year... I sent this model to Croc even...
here is other add-on of it... 3d model by Wieczor... SSC- file by myself... orbital elements from HORIZONS (NASA)

Let's make Gipparcos model... need only more pictures of this spacecraft and a desire to work...

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there some pictures of Gipparcos... I think it not so hard to make a 3D model of it...

Could anyone explain to me how the Orientation function is used in ssc files? It takes me too much time to test.

Yes, Gironde... it's need to test... that's not easy sometimes...

Made my own satellite today... called Toutatis 1... It's need to experiment with textures and materials...

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This satellite was made with Wings 3D and cmodview only...

Landsat 8 is an American Earth observation satellite launched on February 11, 2013. It is the eighth satellite in the Landsat program; the seventh to reach orbit successfully. Originally called the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), it is a collaboration between NASA and the United States Geolo...

I love this model.

Strongly that the telescope is in operation to provide us with beautiful images of the universe.

Yes, that is great...

still working with JWST...

here the ephemeris (01-02-2017 03-08-2017) for Themis B and Themis C

Thanks Gironde...

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter(MRO)... New SSC-file... and was corrected the MRO model colors...