- The four major moons of Jupiter
This is an update and replacement of the addon I've made alongside the first version of the JUICE addon here. This serves as an orbital patch for the four major moons of Jupiter to optimize the flybys of every orbiter mission, which should eliminate any random collisions on the moons and sometimes too distant-ish encounters.
The significant improvement of this version compared to the older one is that the XYZV files will only cover specific time periods where these errant flybys occur and no longer a straight 40-year-long files for each moon, thereby decreasing disk space consumption. For more details about the encounters, you can download the accompanying Excel File below. Take note that the RED tabs represent the times that the HORIZONS trajectories for each moon are running
HORIZONS Fix for the Galilean Satellites, 1995-2035.zip- (1.84 MiB) Downloaded 111 times
Jovian Encounters (1995-2035).xlsx- (18.62 KiB) Downloaded 88 times
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
- Download this addon IF AND ONLY IF you have the Galileo, Juno, Europa Clipper, and JUICE missions installed on your Celestia
- The encounters of Io for Galileo and Juno are rendered good enough in default VSOP87 that it is no longer necessary to have HORIZONS patches to be included in the package
- This addon does not intend to replace Art Blos's XYZV files of the moons that will be included in a future version of Celestia Origin currently in development as of this writing, and could be rendered obsolete once that is released and installed