Spacecrafts for Celestia

[gironde]

DaveBowman2001

yes, I plan to do the other Atlantis, Challenger, Endeavor, Columbia, and Enterprise shuttles. I need to retrieve Celestrack's history from Norad.

[arkana]

I have listed the 39 missions of the Discovery shuttle. There are 2 models for the open hold shuttle, arm extended or not. Mission end dates are disconnected to allow visualization of orbits for years to come.
Discovery.jpg
Shuttle Discovery (NASA).7z

Downloaded and tested but none shuttle.
None readme file.
the second cmod file is always unused.
I saw that all mesh have option "visible false' so none visible shuttle !

it was OK with 'visible true'.

[DaveBowman2001]

The entire satellite fleet of Blagovest, DirecTV, Luch and Nimiq

This is Part Six of the 2021 update for Thomas Guilpain's Geostationary Earth Satellites addon (both 2002 and 2012 versions). All credit goes to him

All fleets are rendered as "satellite.3ds"

[gironde]

arkana wrote
Downloaded and tested but none shuttle.

That's right, I didn't think about attaching a readme file. I'll think about it for the next time.
Initially, I make my ssc files according to the possibilities of LUT5 and among others Vidiba. Vidiba allows you to display or not the objects contained in lua tables intended for it. The Vidiba program I use is an 'improved' version of Croc's, but the tables are still compatible with his shape. The name of these tables is the same as the name of the lua file that contains them. The name of each table is entered in a section of config.lua of LUT5; this section is itself a table. I made tables by type of object and therefore Vidiba programs also by type of object.
The Vidiba program requires the use of the 'Visible false' instruction with each object (in the ssc file) to be invisible in normal times and to appear when using Vidiba. To allow the object to be seen in other circumstances LUT5 has a button to occasionally see an object made invisible.
If you are not using LUT5, just hide the 'Visible false' instructions with '#Visible false' and this can very easily be done by Notepad ++ or another editor.

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There are 2 models supplied with the addon and you can use the one you prefer by simply changing the filename in the 'Mesh "....."' instruction.

[arkana]

That's right, I didn't think about attaching a readme file. I'll think about it for the next time.
Initially, I make my ssc files according to the possibilities of LUT5 and among others Vidiba. Vidiba allows you to display or not the objects contained in lua tables intended for it. The Vidiba program I use is an 'improved' version of Croc's, but the tables are still compatible with his shape. The name of these tables is the same as the name of the lua file that contains them. The name of each table is entered in a section of config.lua of LUT5; this section is itself a table. I made tables by type of object and therefore Vidiba programs also by type of object.
The Vidiba program requires the use of the 'Visible false' instruction with each object (in the ssc file) to be invisible in normal times and to appear when using Vidiba. To allow the object to be seen in other circumstances LUT5 has a button to occasionally see an object made invisible.
If you are not using LUT5, just hide the 'Visible false' instructions with '#Visible false' and this can very easily be done by Notepad ++ or another editor.

There are 2 models supplied with the addon and you can use the one you prefer by simply changing the filename in the 'Mesh "....."' instruction.

OK.
But perhaps we are lot of users to never didn't use LUT5, LUA, Vidiba, ...
Notepad++ : Yes.

[gironde]

arkana wrote
OK
But perhaps we are lot of users to never didn't use LUT5, LUA, Vidiba, ...

When I started posting these kinds of addons, I explained all of these things. Celestia Origin has included (modified) LUT5 in its distribution, so there are many users of LUT5.

No one is obligated to use the addons published here.
Those not using LUT5 should simply remove 'Visible false'. It is not a big job.

[DaveBowman2001]

Decided to post this here since it's where almost all spacecraft that has ever launched had started their journeys.

This add-on features the locations of major spaceports around the globe, including Air Force bases where Space Shuttle orbiters used to land before, and some missile test ranges. These places are rendered as "Landing Sites"...upon activating "Locations -> Label Features", set "Minimum Label Feature Size" to "1" to see them

[gironde]

here the 33 missions of the Atlantis shuttle.
Orbital data from Norad
Jack Higgins model

Shuttle Atlantis (NASA).7z

(213.5 KiB) Downloaded 284 times

[DaveBowman2001]

The entire satellite fleet of ABS, AsiaSat, SES/Astra, Horizons, SES/Sirius, and Superbird

This is Part Seven of the 2021 update for Thomas Guilpain's Geostationary Earth Satellites addon (both 2002 and 2012 versions). All credit goes to him

All fleets are rendered as "satellite.3ds"

[gironde]

In my Progress cargo addon, I discovered 4 errors in the Progress-MS x.ssc file:

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TwoVector
   Secondary
      Observer   "Sol/Earth/Progress-MS 010"

TwoVector
   Secondary
      Observer   "Sol/Earth/Progress-MS 011"

TwoVector
   Secondary
      Observer   "Sol/Earth/Progress-MS 012"

TwoVector
   Secondary
      Observer   "Sol/Earth/Progress-MS 013"

In all these lines, we must replace the name of Observer by removing the '0' (MS 10, MS 11, MS 12, MS 13)



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error in file 'Oneweb 2.ssc'

the object "Oneweb-0027: 2020-020J" "Sol / Earth" must be removed because it is part of the file 'Oneweb 3.ssc'



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In file Cygnus.ssc, one error:

"CYGNUS NG-15:2021-013A:Satcat 47689" "Sol/Earth"
TwoVector
Secondary
Observer "Sol/Earth/CCYGNUS NG-10"

replace by Observer "Sol/Earth/CYGNUS NG-10"



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2 error in file 'Discovery STS.ssc'

"Discovery STS-133:2011-008A:Satcat 37371" "Sol/Earth"
Beginning 2011 02 24 21:53:24""
replace line by Beginning "2011 02 24 21:53:24"

double definition of "Discovery STS-121:2006-028A:Satcat 29251" "Sol/Earth"

line 1037 and 1136, remove one of the two objects

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1 error in file Atlantis STS.ssc

"Atlantis STS-45:1992-015A:Satcat 21915" "Sol/Earth"
replace EllipticalOrbit by :

EllipticalOrbit
{
Epoch 2448707.17394735
Period 0.06271933
SemiMajorAxis 6668.110677
Eccentricity 0.0017278
Inclination 57.0059
AscendingNode 280.1125
ArgOfPericenter 270.3939
MeanAnomaly 89.4946
}

[Endeavor35]

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

[Endeavor35]

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.

[DaveBowman2001]

Endeavor35 wrote:
SpaceX 1st Generation Dragon

Amazing! Can't wait to include this to linuxman's detailed ISS addon

[gironde]

Here are the 28 missions of the Columbia shuttle until the tragic flight of STS-107.
I don't remember where I got the Columbia model which is not on Motherlode but a clue is that it uses Bob Hudley's textured ones that he created for Atlantis, Discovery and Endeavor. It is missing on Motherlode Challenger, Columbia and Enterprise. If someone could modify Columbia to get Challenger and Enterprise (just the name on the right wing under the American flag) that would be great.

As usual, the sources are from Norad. In the ssc file, each object is described with the parameter 'Visible false' to work with Vidiba from LUT5. For those who do not use Vidiba, this line must be deactivated with '#Visible false'. The 'Ending' parameter is deactivated in order to be able to visualize the orbits of all the missions at the same time. You can restore the line by removing the '#' in front of Ending.

Shuttle Columbia (NASA).7z

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Endeavor35

[DaveBowman2001]

The entire satellite fleet of Ekran, N-STAR, Potok/Geizer, and Spaceway

This is Part Eight of the 2021 update for Thomas Guilpain's Geostationary Earth Satellites addon (both 2002 and 2012 versions). All credit goes to him

All fleets are rendered as "satellite.3ds". On this batch, only Spaceway F2, Spaceway F3, and N-STAR d remain operational to this day
(NOTE: No orbital data is found for Ekran 5)

[Endeavor35]

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.

Enjoy!

[gironde]

I am submitting to you today the 25 Endeavor missions

Endeavour.7z

(1.37 MiB) Downloaded 284 times

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To end the series here are the 10 Challenger missions

Challenger.7z

(4.64 MiB) Downloaded 329 times

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note that Enterprise has never been in orbit

[DaveBowman2001]

The Almaz military space stations, including Salyut 3 and 5 work in progress....model from the AVSIM library
(NOTE: The Soyuz that is docked to the station is a separate spacecraft mesh that came from the Salyut 6 addon found on this site)

[DaveBowman2001]

Salyut 4 also work in progress....model from the AVSIM library

[gironde]

yes, the site http://celestiasws.free.fr/pages/chargementussr.html has very nice addons