Spacecraft for Celestia: Thread 2

[DaveBowman2001]

Spacecraft add-on projects planned for April-May 2025 release:

GLONASS-M
A series of 45/51 Russian navigation satellites launched between 2003 and 2022

Lunar Gateway
New version of the space station based on NASA's 2024 redesign

Lunar Trailblazer
A failed small lunar orbiter that launched alongside IM-2 (Athena) and Odin

SPHEREx
NASA infrared telescope, intended to survey 450 million galaxies. Also known as Explorer 98

Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite
A NASA Earth observations satellite deployed from STS-48 (Discovery)

[Art Blos]

Is it possible to improve model for the "XMM-Newton" and "Kepler"? There are the same problems with visible polygons.

[DaveBowman2001]

Is it possible to improve model for the "XMM-Newton" and "Kepler"? There are the same problems with visible polygons.

Theoretically, yes. I'll take a look on them to see what's the problem later.

[Art Blos]

Anyone planning on making nine "Rangers"? These spacecrafts are historically important. I will definitely add such a collection to "Celestia Origin". If not in April, then in October for sure.

[DaveBowman2001]

I had a model for Ranger 7–9 two years ago but unfortunately lost it in a previous computer reformat alongside their trajectories (there's no surviving actual data for these anywhere so I had to make it on scratch through GMAT and Orbiter2016)

Maybe I'll revisit another attempt in making one in another time, but it's kinda low priority for me at the moment.