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Update to my very first addon for Celestia, Sierra Nevada Corporation's Dream Chaser Spaceplane. This update is in effect a quality of life update to the initial version, which I originally released back in early January. As such, make sure that you delete your old version of Dream Chaser from your ...

Although it never did go into orbit, the X-15 still was responsible for paving the way for future crewed and uncrewed space programs of NASA, as well as providing a handful of test pilots their astronaut wings as the aircraft did go past the boundary of the edge of Earth's atmosphere and into space....

The original version of the Cygnus resupply cargo spacecraft for the ISS, which flew until the failure of its Antares launch vehicle during the infamous Orb-3 ISS resupply mission.

The X-38 was a prototype spacecraft that was intended to act as a lifeboat for astronauts aboard the ISS, should something have gone horribly wrong. Utilizing knowledge gained from both NASA and the USAF's previous lifting body designs, the X-38 would have entered the atmosphere in a similar fashion...

NASA & JPL's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, which tagged along with Perseverance on it's way to Mars to become the first ever spacecraft/aircraft, to achieve heavier than air flight on a planet other than Earth.

For those who are looking for a bit more ground scenery eye candy, I managed to put together an addon for NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building.

A future addition to the family of roving Mars rovers, Rosalind Franklin is one of three key pieces in the ESA/ROSCOSMOS ExoMars mission triangle. With the other two pieces being the ROSCOSMOS Mars lander, which will bring the rover down to the surface, as well as the already active TGO, or Trace Ga...

Earlier concept design of the Dragon XL spacecraft, which is slated to resupply the Lunar Gateway space station in the future.

Had it not crashed, this lander would have investigated both the soil, and climate of Planum Australe located on Mars. Though here at least, you can view the lander in the way it would have looked upon successfully touching down on the Martian surface.


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Minor update which tries to address the harsh lighting seam which is visible on the right side of the capsule. This version also completely replaces the previous version of my Cargo Dragon addon. Meaning that no prior versions of it are required for it to work.

SpaceX's autonomous drone ship, "Of Course I Still Love You," with a Falcon 9 1st stage on top of it.

I think the idea to do something like this could be interesting. The question I have is unlike stars, spacecraft generally have their own unique designs which differ from one another. So if we were to say simulate certain defunct satellites, from my understanding we would either need to have a very ...

Here is NASA/JPL's InSight Mars Lander, and the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, "Oppy," ready to head out into Martian landscape.


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GOES-R Series Satellite:

https://www.goes-r.gov/3dModelAR/

So with the release of my Europa Clipper add on, I noticed that NASA has started using only a normal map for their 3D model's texturing, and creating the colors through various surface effects in Blender and such. To get around this limitation in Celestia, I was able to take the foil normal map text...

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft in orbit around Jupiter's moon Europa.


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Updates include emissive lighting to the windows, and an actual normal map which gives it some actual TPS tiles and a few other modifications. NOTE: This update replaces the previous version of my Starship add on. Meaning that no prior versions of Starship are required for it to work. Enjoy! :smile:

Finally, here is Orbital ATK's Cygnus Enhanced spacecraft. This will also mark the last of my spacecraft addons, which are created from the Google Arts & Culture/NASA ISS 3D model.

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Took a while for me to get here, but I did it in the end. Presenting the 1st generation SpaceX Dragon, bound for the International Space Station.

ROSCOSMOS Soyuz Spacecraft. Orbit data is slightly less fictional, though it is still a move in the right direction.