As a spinoff of the big Galileo xyz project which i'm working on (see thread http://63.224.48.65/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3685 for details) i've also created a new xyz for the Galileo atmospheric probe. The old one was based on Horizons' own data for the probe, but it sucked big time, because it only came as close to Jupiter as the orbit of Thebe.
What i've done now, is to...
1. Get heliocentric elements for the Galileo probe at the first time that Horizons lists
2. Plug these elements back into Horizons, through the custom user input method
3. Make a new xyz from this data!
This way only works for unpowered craft though, since this xyz is only based on the gravitational effects of jupiter, not on any course correction manouvres etc (not that the Galileo probe could make any!)
If you've ever wanted to see a probe enter the atmosphere of a planet realistically in Celestia, here's your chance!
So... To download this, it's the #5 xyz on the Spacecraft page of my website http://homepage.eircom.net/~jackcelestia/ , but have a look at a few screenshots first.
(Small ones, because the JPEG quality turned out shocking on the large ones, and I didn't have time to change them...
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(Images link to full size versions, and more here: http://homepage.eircom.net/~jackcelesti ... oprobe.htm )
Enjoy!
