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- Inside the payload bay of STS-30 (Atlantis), May 1989
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- Cruise to Venus, 1989-1990
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- Venus Orbital Insertion, 1990-Aug-10
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- Mapping Phase (Cycles 1-3), 1990-1993
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- Aerobraking Phase (Cycle 4), 1993
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- Final Low Venusian Orbit (Cycles 5-6), 1993-1994
Magellan, formerly known as the
Venus Radar Mapper (VRM), was a NASA spacecraft that was designed to map the entire unseen surface of Venus via synthetic aperture radar. Launched from Space Shuttle
Atlantis in May 1989, it reached Venus more than a year later and mapped about 98% of the entire Venusian surface until 1992. It then performed the first-ever aerobraking maneuvers in history in 1993-1994. With all of its mission objectives been accomplished successfully, the spacecraft was decommissioned by being destroyed in the atmosphere on October 1994
NOTES:
- All XYZV files here are semifictional. This is due to the real SPICE trajectory data for Magellan being largely incomplete (according to
pedro_jg). That being said, they roughly follow the two trajectory maps from NASA (
cruise phase and the
mapping phases)
- There is a state vector bug in the earliest timesteps of the Aerobraking Phase. Hopefully will be fixed in the next update
- The CMOD model is heavily modified to allow suntracking and fitting to its custom IUS booster during its launch configuration
- The HGA will only point towards Venus only during VOI and the Mapping Phases, 1990-1992. Outside this timeframe, it is always pointed towards Earth
- Requires the
STS-2022 addon installed first in order for the entire mission to be viewed on Celestia
- Shuttle missions modified by this addon:
STS-30CREDITS:
- Original
addon by
toutatis