Hello,
I'm a new Celestia user, and I'd like to start off by saying Wow! I'm really blown away by this fantastic program!
One thing I was curious about, are the space station orbits arbitrary, or do they actually reflect the position of their real life counterparts?
Thanks for the information!
Space Station orbits
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Alan
Re: Space station orbits
No,
You will need to get an updated
satellite TLE file. Try here:
http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/
and then edit the ISS section in
the solarsys.ssc file.
I then used the Jtrack site
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/realtime/j ... craft.html to confirm that the Celestia ISS was
in the correct orbit and position.
Looks really great with the higher-res earth16k.dss texture.
Get that here: ftp.dasmirnov.net
Good luck
You will need to get an updated
satellite TLE file. Try here:
http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/
and then edit the ISS section in
the solarsys.ssc file.
I then used the Jtrack site
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/realtime/j ... craft.html to confirm that the Celestia ISS was
in the correct orbit and position.
Looks really great with the higher-res earth16k.dss texture.
Get that here: ftp.dasmirnov.net
Good luck