Celestia Limitations Maybe

[Fenerit]

Maybe you should use the statements below:

FixedRotation
{
Inclination <degrees>
AscendingNode <degrees>
MeridianAngle <degrees>
}

or

UniformRotation
{
Period <hours>
Inclination <degrees>
AscendingNode <degrees>
MeridianAngle <degrees>
Epoch <date>
}

RotationPeriod 0 is dangerous...

[selden]

RotationPeriod specifies how long it takes an object to turn around once. As a result,
RotationPeriod 0
means that it has to complete one rotation in no time at all -- spinning infinitely fast. If you don't want an object to rotate, using a FixedRotation block as Fenerit suggests will make an object be fixed in place relative to its BodyFrame.

Also, as you may already know, Celestia does not draw an object at all if it is 1LY or more from a light source (from a Star).

[Fenerit]

The Wiki page is named Rotation models
Within your SSC, the statement's blocks for rotation models are nested as follows (FixedRotation example):

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"USS Cantell NCC-74851 Observing Experiment" "72 Her"
{
Class "spacecraft"
Mesh "Usscantellncc74851.cmod"
Radius 0.345
EllipticalOrbit {
Period 2
SemiMajorAxis 36401
Eccentricity 0.89
Inclination 40
AscendingNode 14
LongOfPericenter 27
MeanLongitude 34
}

FixedRotation
{
   Inclination <degrees>
   AscendingNode <degrees>
   MeridianAngle <degrees>
}

Albedo 0.25
}