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Posted an SSC update representing Chang'e 6 on Sirius_Alpha's original addon thread for the Chang'e landers, in celebration for its successful landing just a few hours ago as of this writing

cover_image.jpg With Chang'e 6 landed on the Moon just a few hours ago as of this writing, here's an SSC update to the original add-on above placing its descent stage onto Apollo Basin, with exact coordinates pinpointed by Sirius_Alpha on Discord . Also added COSPAR IDs to all missions so that it m...

Further attachments from the locked original Spacecrafts for Celestia thread that can be safely removed as they've been replaced by their newer updates: https://celestiaproject.space/forum/viewtopic.php?p=154361#p154361 https://celestiaproject.space/forum/viewtopic.php?p=159131#p159131 https://celes...

cover_image.jpg Queqiao is a series of Chinese lunar orbiters sent to support communications relay for any landers touching down on the Far Side of the Moon. Two such orbiters were launched between 2018 and 2024, months prior to the arrival of Chang'e 4 and 6 themselves on the lunar surface detail_...

cover_image.jpg The Voskhod is an interim Soviet manned space program that ran from 1964 to 1966, concurrent with NASA's Project Gemini . Derived from the earlier Vostok capsule, it was the first spacecraft to carry two and three people to space at a time, and in March 18, 1965 saw the first succes...

Untitled.jpg Mariner 9 was a NASA spacecraft that became the first artificial object to orbit another planet when it arrived on Mars on 1971-Nov-14, narrowly beating the two Soviet probes ( Mars 2 and 3 ) by two weeks. It remained active until 1972-Oct-27, and is predicted to have deorbited by 2022...

cover_image.jpg ASC-1 to 3 were three communications satellites operated by the American Satellite Corp. and later PanAmSat launched between 1985 and 1991. The first satellite is one of three spacecraft deployed from the payload bay of STS-51-I (Discovery) . They provided television broadcasting an...

I've uploaded a patch for the Mars 2 to 7 add-on with more accurate coordinates for Mars 3 lander thanks to Shadow-Dragon-777. Also added a parameter on Mars 4 to keep tracking it after February 1974 thanks to SpaceExplorer! Same link above

cover_image.jpg Chandrayaan-2 and 3 are ISRO robotic missions to the Moon in 2019 and 2023 respectively. Upon orbit insertion, both missions each sent a Vikram lander and a Pragyan rover to the lunar south pole. Only the latter flight is successful, making India the fourth country to successfully l...

cover_image.jpg The Mars program is a series of Soviet space probes intended to explore the Red Planet. A total of seven missions were launched on the second phase of the program (1971-1974), including the first to land successfully on Mars. However the program was plagued with serious technologica...

Not only the Galaxy, but all the stars bound to it must be modified manually. Also since it will be 900x nearer to Earth for the potential 1.6.x version, the coordinates of the stars will have to be adjusted as well, else they would be concentrated all on their Galactic Core

I almost forgot, there's also a variant of mobile 1.7.0 that is available on the Microsoft Xbox Store Distances in parsecs are easily converted to ly. Can we imagine 'bringing' the Star Wars universe closer to the solar system to make it compatible with 1.6.1 or 1.6.4, and what needs to be changed? ...

CH-3L/Vikram-2 on its final landing sequence on the Moon

...Besides, is there a stable version without bugs and where? So far the most stable release of Celestia 1.7.0 is its Android/iOS version found in the Google Play Store, which was maintained by Markerz since 2020. I am forced to rely on parsecs for determining its distance so that I don't have to n...

cover_image.jpg The Razor Crest was the personal flagship of Din Djarin (a.k.a. The Mandalorian) during the early years of the New Republic. He used it throughout the search for the Force-sensitive child named Grogu, and continued to use it on the quest to find Grogu's species in 9 ABY. It was dest...

Preview of some of the future spacecraft projects I'm currently working on this May ASC-1 One of three satellites launched from STS-51-I (Discovery) Released: 2024-May-29, 13:18 IMG_20240525_144841.png Chandrayaan-2 and 3 India's second and third missions to the Moon Released: 2024-May-28, 14:51 Unt...

cover_image.jpg detail_image_3.jpg The TKS-VA is a Soviet spacecraft originally designed for both crew/cargo missions to military Almaz space stations. It was never used in its intended purpose, though it became the basis of subsequent Russian space station modules for Mir and the ISS . detail_imag...

Celestia2024-05-0320-03-52-ezgif.com-video-to-gif-converter.gif NASA's Dragonfly is a future space mission to send a robotic rotorcraft to fly above the surface of Titan. Scheduled for launch sometime in July 2028, it is expected to arrive on Saturn's largest moon around 2034 about south of Selk Cr...

cover_image.jpg The Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO) is a NASA space telescope launched aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia during STS-93 by NASA on July 23, 1999. Observing the universe primarily in x-ray light, it is the third of the Great Observatories launched, after Hubble and Compton . Its missi...

cover_image.jpg The Hubble Space Telescope is an optical space observatory that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation today. It was serviced and upgraded by five shuttle missions from 1993 to 2009. This add-on is released in honor of its 34th launch anniversary (April 2...