Solar Dynamics Observatory

[BrianJ]

To mark today's succesful launch of SDO, NASA's new solar observatory, here's a model and .ssc that put's it in it's "inclined geostationary" operational orbit, centered on the latitude of it's dedicated tracking stations at White Sands.

.zip file inc. .3ds, .jpg, .ssc and readme.txt - unzip into your Celestia/Extras/ folder
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/briansutilitysite/sdo.zip
(temporary link while I upload to the Motherlode)

More info about SDO:
http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/


Cheers,
Brian

[bh]

That's great, thanks Brian... your models are nice.

[BrianJ]

Thanks bh.

Of course, it might have been better if I'd given the add-on the correct orbital period - one sidereal day (not one solar day)

--Corrected version now available on CelestiaMotherlode--
http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catal ... on_id=1422

Cheers,
Brian