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Added "Prospero X-3" - the only British satellite of its own production.

It's very strange, but "NOAA-19" is missing from the "celestia.mobi" website. Also it is not in Earth Orbit Missions Collection on the forum. I did not even find the original archive from toutatis . If this is some kind of bug, I can post the archive here. UPD Okay, I got it. It'...

Added "Dong Fang Hong 1" - the first China artificial satellite.

Added "Explorer 6".

Added "Explorer 3" and "Explorer 4".

DaveBowman2001< Is it possible to improve the model for "Lunar Orbiter"?

Added "SAC-D".

Can anyone fix model of the "Lunar Orbiter"? Either there aren't enough polygons, or it just needs some anti-aliasing. The squares spoil all appearance.

DaveBowman2001, have you forgotten about my request?

Added "Luna 19" and "Luna 22".

This is a known bug. It usually occurs on laptops with integrated graphics.

Added "QuikSCAT".

Added "Asterix" - the first French artificial satellite.

splash.png Dear members of the Celestia community! We’d like to introduce our Celestia Origin project whose goal is to upgrade Celestia 1.6.3 & 1.7.0 with the most current information about celestial bodies without modifying the source code. This project is the largest one of its kind in the Ru...

SevenSpheres wrote:Not many new ones...

Ready.

SevenSpheres wrote:98943 Torifune = 2001 CC21

I have already added this name.

I'll take care of the rest.

Added patch v.15.1

ChangeLog:

• Added new comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) — potentially the Great Comet of 2024.

SevenSpheres wrote:With a new release, I'll post another batch of asteroid updates, including those from my previous post which apparently weren't done...

All your comments and requests have been taken into account.

A great reason to implement a display of rings in Celestia depending on the era.