question: placing a spacecraft
Posted: 31.12.2003, 23:58
Is it possible to place a spacecraft in orbit around a moon? If so, how is the ssc written for that?
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"Apollo 11" "Sol/Earth/Moon"
{
Class "spacecraft"
Mesh "apollo.3ds"
Radius 0.010
EllipticalOrbit
{
Period 0.0873
SemiMajorAxis 1922
Eccentricity 0.00078
Inclination 5
}
Albedo 0.10
}
Anonymous wrote:What if I wanted to add a spacecraft around an add-on moon, like Himalia that orbits Jupiter?
I tried using the script posted above for that and it didn't work.
Can a script be written for that?
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"GuestProbe" "Sol/Jupiter/Himalia"
{
Class "spacecraft"
Mesh "galileo.3ds"
Radius 0.01
EllipticalOrbit
{
Period 4.4068
SemiMajorAxis 463
Eccentricity 0.831774
Inclination 4.213
AscendingNode 59.562
ArgOfPericenter 97.224
TrueAnomaly -66.619
}
RotationPeriod 1.0e9
Orientation [ 90 0 1 0 ]
Albedo 0.50
}