Spacecrafts for Celestia

[SpaceFanatic64]

Could someone create a full xyzv of the Rosetta mission? The only ones we currently have go all the way up until it approaches the comet. It would be very nice if someone could do this. Also, I found data from HORIZONS, so that would be where to find the orbital information.

[toutatis]

Could someone create a full xyzv of the Rosetta mission? The only ones we currently have go all the way up until it approaches the comet. It would be very nice if someone could do this. Also, I found data from HORIZONS, so that would be where to find the orbital information.

Ok, SpaceFanatic64... let's try...

[DaveBowman2001]

By the way, here's the link to the free Viking Orbiter mesh...

https://www.orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=481

[toutatis]

@SpaceFanatic64... but about WIND spacecraft... you said that there orbital data for it on HORIZONS... but I did not found.. So I will start (during 48 hours) the launch of this spacecraft to the Celestia space to the heliocentric orbit which I will prepare by myself, till we find original orbital data for this spacecraft...

[toutatis]

By the way, here's the link to the free Viking Orbiter mesh...

OK, DaveBowman2001... let's try and it too... I downloaded it from there...

[SpaceFanatic64]

you said that there orbital data for it on HORIZONS... but I did not found..

Hm, that's strange. Maybe I thought I saw it on HORIZONS, but I guess I must've confused it with some other spacecraft. I'm sorry, my mistake.

[toutatis]

This is looks like that... I converted it in .3DS... but need to make it better...

[toutatis]

Hm, that's strange. Maybe I thought I saw it on HORIZONS, but I guess I must've confused it with some other spacecraft. I'm sorry, my mistake.

@SpaceFanatic64.. No problem.. I guess that together we will find the orbital data for the WIND...

[SpaceFanatic64]

Alright then, let's see if we can do this.

[DaveBowman2001]

This is looks like that... I converted it in .3DS... but need to make it better...

The Viking orbiter as shown after it has released its lander, Nice work!

[gironde]

For WIND, the celestrack archive sent me this file

There is only once the 2 usual lines.




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on https://sscweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/Locator.cgi, we find WIND but I think it is necessary to interpret the types of coordinates proposed because they do not correspond to those used in Celestia.

[toutatis]

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1 23333U 94071A   94305.49999999 -.00172956  26967-3  10000-3 0    15
2 23333  28.7490   2.3720 9728298  30.4360   1.3500  0.07309491    70

Gironde... but from this 2 lines I can see that it is for the geocentric orbit...
I read... the orbital data for...
Epoch 1994-11-01 11:59:59...
Inclination 28.749...
Ascending of Node 2.372...
Eccentricity 0.9728298...
Argument of Pericenter 30.436...
Mean Anomaly 1.35...
Rotations per day 0.07309491

from this I calculated...

Epoch JD 2449657.999988
SemiMajor Axis 241 626 km...
Period 328 hours 20 minutes 24 seconds (19700.40 minutes.)
Pericenter 187 kilometers...
Apocenter 470309 kilometers...

but this spacecraft changed the orbits many times... ok, we can use this data, till we will find something else...

[gironde]

Yes Toutatis, I totally agree with you.

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"WIND:ISTP Wind:GGS Wind" "Sol/Earth"
{
   Class   "spacecraft"
   Mesh   "Wind_bin.cmod"
   Radius   0.0072
   
   Beginning   "1994 11 01 09:31:00"
   #Ending      "2030 01 01"

#Reference system
#Heliocentric
#Regime L1 Lagrangian point
#Sun orbiter
#Orbital insertion May 2004
#
#Norad celestrak.com archive data
   EllipticalOrbit
   {
      Epoch         2449658.99999999 # Wednesday, A.D. 1994-Nov-2 11:59:59.9
      Period         13.68084317
      SemiMajorAxis   241626.048
      Eccentricity   0.9728298
      Inclination      28.7490
      AscendingNode   2.3720
      ArgOfPericenter   30.4360
      MeanAnomaly       1.3500
   }
   
   InfoUrl "https://pwg.gsfc.nasa.gov/wind.shtml"
}

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Toutatis,
For WIND, I tried an orbit (x, y, z) at https://sscweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/Locator.cgi
type GEI J2000
time 17-11-1994 to 11-01-1998
output in km
day time format Day / Time format: YYYY DDD HH.HHHHH (easier to calculate Julian date)

Here is the result :

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interface https://sscweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/Locator.cgi

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here is the Excel table to edit the results of the website for WIND



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WIND 17-11-1994 to 20-09-2018

[Diigg]

Sorry for the off-topic, but how do you make the orbit only the selected object and not all spacecrafts ?.
I see the orbit of the selected object in red and the orbits of all the other spacecrafts in light gray.

[gironde]

Diigg,

in the rendering options, you have to check the orbits in general but not those of spacecraft; so you only display the orbit of the selected object

[gironde]

updating files for ACE : ssc and data xyz
source : https://sscweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/Locator.cgi

[gironde]

files for WIND : models, ssc and data xyz
source : https://sscweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/Locator.cgi

Toutatis has a pending model; he will certainly be better than mine. In the meantime, here is a xyz file

[gironde]

with https://sscweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/Locator.cgi
example for ISEE-3 (ICE) between 1978 and 2014

[gironde]

with https://sscweb.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/Locator.cgi
example for ISEE-1, ISEE-2 between 1977 and 1987, and ISEE-3 (ICE) between 1978 and 2014

[Diigg]

in the rendering options, you have to check the orbits in general but not those of spacecraft; so you only display the orbit of the selected object

That dismissal! It was obvious.

Thanks Gironde