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Hello,

I have been working for several weeks now on correctly defining the orbit of a satellite addon I have been creating for the Solar Dynamics Observatory which will be launched in December of 2008. I am having a lot of trouble making the addon orbit match the planned actual orbit of the satellite. I have a document from NASA explaining in detail the orientation, orbit, etc. but I do not have the technical knowledge of Celestia needed to take that information and write the orbit in the addon. Will someone please help me get the orbit correct in the addon? If someone who is proficient with creating addons could just write the orbit for me that would be awesome! Proper credit will be given, of course.


Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Adam Simon

Hmmm... I know Grant is good at this... I've done it before for the ISS but that was a long time ago...

Hi,
What's satellite are you working on?

ElChristou wrote:What's satellite are you working on?

adamjsimon wrote: the Solar Dynamics Observatory which will be launched in December of 2008.

I do not have the technical knowledge of Celestia needed to take that information and write the orbit in the addon.

I'd suggest looking at the EllipticalOrbit parameters used in the SSC files used for the geosynchronous satellite Addons which are on the MotherLode. e.g. http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catal ... don_id=283

selden wrote:

ElChristou wrote:What's satellite are you working on?

adamjsimon wrote: the Solar Dynamics Observatory which will be launched in December of 2008.

Ouch, what a stupid I am! I don't know why, this name appeared to me very "ground" related...