Spacecrafts for Celestia

[toutatis]

completed...

[toutatis]

@toutatis have unreleased models of Luna 1/2, Luna 3, Luna 9 (cruise), and Luna 10 already in the past few months, and I am attempting to create trajectories of them to Celestia (no data available anywhere online)

As of now, I'm only successful with Luna 10

I think that it's not a problem now... I can create these models and XYZV-trajectories for these spacecrafts...
I have a book called "The mechanics of space flight" it's will help with info...

[DaveBowman2001]

Earthrise as first seen in Apollo 8 (1968)

Project Apollo recompiled to simplify installation...Credit goes to all its Original Authors and Croc

WHAT'S NEW?:
- Set retrograde orbits to lunar missions to properly simulate Earthrise
- Added missions Apollo 4, 5, and 9 (beta)

DOWNLOAD LATEST VERSION HERE, 2022-Dec-11

[DaveBowman2001]

Gemini 1, 7 and 6A added...

[Diigg]

Thanks @DaveBowman2001

I have tried to do an installation from install notes and it still seems terribly confusing.
First, I can not find the "Moon Collections" addon. I downloaded "Moon missions" addon, but I do not know if you are referring to it, since it does not contain the "EC-Apollo" folder, for example.

I tend to be tenacious and I hope that with patience, I will achieve it, but Not it be more practical to create a complete package with everything necessary ?, as it is done with other addons.
a greeting

[Limax7]

It's time to update InSight, MarCO-A and MarCO-B

I have InSight in Spice orbit format. I will try to add two MarCOs spacecraft. They are in Horizons/JPL so it is to do

[Limax7]

It's time to update InSight, MarCO-A and MarCO-B

I have InSight in Spice orbit format. I will try to add two MarCOs spacecraft. They are in Horizons/JPL so it is to do

Here is InSight (SPICE orbit) and MarCO-A and MarCO-B (xyzv orbits) (models by me )
InSight model by toutatis
viewtopic.php?p=139456#p139456

InSight.zip

(8.42 MiB) Downloaded 279 times

Also I add a second texture (landing_sites.jpg) made I think by Emily Lakdawalla

To work, please download de436.bsp from ftp://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/eph/planets/bsp/
and put to data folder.
new spk orbital data to InSight are in:
https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/INSIGHT/kernels/spk

It's don't work in Celestia 1.7 x64 systems but in Windows 32 bit is OK!

[DaveBowman2001]

I have tried to do an installation from install notes and it still seems terribly confusing.
First, I can not find the "Moon Collections" addon. I downloaded "Moon missions" addon, but I do not know if you are referring to it, since it does not contain the "EC-Apollo" folder, for example.

So "Moon missions" is its name

I tend to be tenacious and I hope that with patience, I will achieve it, but Not it be more practical to create a complete package with everything necessary ?, as it is done with other addons.
a greeting

@Diigg, I was thinking that recompiling older addons is illegal unless I have the permission of the original creators, but since it seemed that most of them are no longer active for a long time, that would be impossible, plus like you said, maybe installation of Part 1 is very complicated.

The .SSC files inside are the only ones created by myself

Anyways, thanks for the suggestions! I'll do it for next old refurbished addons that are too complicated to install

[bh]

Okay...

EC left under a cloud a while ago and (I think) withdrew his models...

There may be an issue with permissions.

Best to look out, thats all.

Bob

[Limax7]

Hi, I'm looking the Osiris-REx spacecraft model. Can anybody help me?

I found this model in NASA site but is in lwo format and I can't open it

https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/detail/osirisrex-2013-comp

Added after 1 hour 45 minutes:

Hi, I'm looking the Osiris-REx spacecraft model. Can anybody help me?

I found this model in NASA site but is in lwo format and I can't open it

https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/detail/osirisrex-2013-comp

Uff I made it conversion to cmod


OSIRIS-REx Arrival to Bennu (3-18 Dec 2018)

phpBB [media]

I use SPICE (bsp,bc,tsc,tpc,tf) files from NAIF/NASA
Model of OREX is from NASA 3D models converted to cmod.

Soft is Celestia 1.7 64bit

More info apout arrival :
https://www.asteroidmission.org/asteroid-operations/

[gironde]

Some NASA website templates are difficult to convert with the usual 3D software.

Why not use excellent Toutatis' model ?
viewtopic.php?p=140519#p140519

[Limax7]

Limax7, see here : viewtopic.php?p=138823#p138823
(Curiosity rover on Mars)

gironde, can you upload textures to this model ?

[Limax7]

Some NASA website templates are difficult to convert with the usual 3D software.

Why not use excellent Toutatis' model ?
viewtopic.php?p=140519#p140519

This model is better then NASA 3D source.
Only I must rotate axis to match to orx_v12.tf from https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/ORX/kernels/fk/

Code: Select all

   These diagrams illustrate the s/c frame:

      +X side view:
      -------------
                                  +Zsc ^
                                       |
      .------------------.             |             .------------------.
      |                  | Payload     |             |                  |
      |                  | Deck    . --|-- .         |                  |
      |                  | .-----.'    o--------> -. |                  |
      |                  | |   .` +Xsc        +Ysc | |                  |
      |                  | |   |               |   | |                  |
      |                  | |   |       o       |   | |                  |
      |                  | |   |               |   | |                  |
      | -Y solar         \ |   `.             .'   | /         +Y solar |
      |   array           || HGA `.         .'     ||            array  |
      `-------------------@`-------` ----- '-------'@-------------------'
                                  |         |
                                   `-------'
                                      \_/ Main Engine

                                                 +Xsc is out of the page.
      +Z side view:
      -------------

                           .-------.       .-------.
                           |        \.___./        |
                           |         |___| TAGSAM  |
                           |Payload                |
                           | Deck     ...          |
                           |       +Zsc  `.   +Ysc |
                           |        |  o-------->  |
                           |        `. | .'        |
                           |          `|` SRC      |
        -Y solar           |           |           |           +Y solar
          array            |      .----|----.      |             array
      ====================@`----.'     v     `.----'@====================
                               `-  +Xsc   ------'
                                  `-.     .-'
                                     `-.-'  HGA

                                                 +Zsc is out of the page.

      +Y side view:
      -------------

                                  +Zsc ^
                   +Y solar            |
                     array  | Payload  |
                            |  Deck  __|__         TAGSAM
                            |       /  |  \      ||
                          .|| <--------o ----------.
                        .' ||+Xsc       +Ysc       |
                      .'   ||                      |
                     |     ||                      |
                      `.   ||                      |
                   HGA  `. ||                      |
                          `||                      |
                           `@----------------------'
                                  |         |
                                   `-------'
                                      \_/ Main Engine

                                                 +Ysc is out of the page.

My rotation is:

Code: Select all

Orientation [ 90 1 0 0 ]

But i use SPICE add on for ORX, here is SSC code, just download files from naif siite (see above)

Code: Select all

"Bennu:101955:1999 RQ36" "Sol"
{
   Class "asteroid"
   Mesh "bennu2.cmod"
   Texture "bennu_new.jpg"
   Radius 0.2825 # 0.2825 x 0.2675 x 0.254 m
   
   Beginning "2015 01 01 00:00:00.000"
    Ending "2022 11 20 00:00:00.000"

   OrbitFrame { EclipticJ2000 { Center "Sol" } }
   
    SpiceOrbit
    {
      Kernel    "orx_180801_181229_181204_od070-N-M2P-F-M1A_v1.bsp"
      Target    "2101955"
      Origin    "10"
      BoundingRadius 1e10
    }
   
   SpiceRotation
    {
        Kernel             
      [
     "naif0012.tls"
     "pck00010.tpc"
     "bennu_v11.tpc"
     "orx_v12.tf"
     ]
        Frame               "IAU_BENNU"
    }
   Albedo 0.059
   # Rotation Period  4.297461 hours
}





"OSIRIS-REx-bsp:ORX-bsp" "Sol"
{
    Class    "spacecraft"
   Mesh "Osiris-Rex.cmod"
   Orientation [ 90 1 0 0 ]
   Radius   0.0015
   OrbitColor   [ 0.15 0.15 0.8 ]

   Beginning   "2016 09 08 23:06:08.282"
    Ending    "2019 03 02 17:01:09.185"
   
    OrbitFrame { EclipticJ2000 { Center "Sol" } }
   #BodyFrame   {   TwoVector {   Center      "Sol/Bennu/OSIRIS-REx-bsp"
   #             Primary     {   Axis "z"   RelativePosition { Target "Sol/Bennu" } }
   #             Secondary {   Axis "x"   RelativeVelocity { Target "Sol" } }
   #         }   }

    SpiceOrbit
    {
      Kernel    [
     "orx_160908_231024_pgaa3_day06m60_v1.bsp"
     "orx_160909_171201_170830_od023_v1.bsp"
     "orx_180801_181229_181204_od070-N-M2P-F-M1A_v1.bsp"
     "orx_180801_190302_181114_od061-R-M0P-P-M0D_v1.bsp"
     ]
      Target "-64"
      Origin "10"
      BoundingRadius 1e10
    }
   
   SpiceRotation
    {
   Beginning   "2018 11 12 11:31:10.802"
    Ending    "2018 12 24 12:01:02.497"
        Kernel             
      [
     "naif0012.tls"
     "pck00010.tpc"
     "bennu_v11.tpc"
     "orx_v12.tf"
     "ORX_SCLKSCET.00039.tsc"
     "orx_p_181112_181119_1846_od062_v02.bc"
     "orx_p_181119_181126_1847_od062_v01.bc"
     "orx_p_181126_181203_1848_od067_v05.bc"
     "orx_p_181203_181210_1849_od070_v01.bc"
     "orx_p_181210_181217_1850_od070_v01.bc"
     "orx_p_181217_181224_1851_od061_v01.bc"
     ]
        Frame               "ORX_SPACECRAFT"
    }
}


Here is ZIP file ORX-SPICE and files

ORX.zip

(4.5 MiB) Downloaded 258 times

I made texture of Bennu from last rotation images (I use PTGui)
Model of Bennu is from NASA 3D models site (with some rotation)
Please download nedded BSP files (spk folder) and BC files (ck folder)

[gironde]

gironde, can you upload textures to this model ?

MSL Curiosity textures :

[Art Blos]

I appeal to the developers of spacecraft in this thread. Put all your current creations in one place, for example on Google Drive. Now it is VERY UNCOMFORTABLE to find latest version from the heap of versions. Or to search for a specific spacecraft. Let administrator publish general link in the first message.

[gironde]

here an recap. (xls) of posts for spacecrafts for Celestia (16/11/2018) :

(in comments of cells, is the link)

[toutatis]

New Horizons.... 2014 MU69 flyby....

Orbital data for 2014 MU69 : from MPC at epoch 27 Apr 2019...

Code: Select all

"(486958) 2014 MU69:2014 MU69:Ultima Thule:1110113Y:PT1" "Sol"
{
   Class   "asteroid"
   Mesh   "486958 2014 MU69.cmod"
   Orientation   [ 90 0 1 0 ]
   Texture   "darkasteroid.jpg"
   Color   [ 1.00 0.609 0.507 ]
   BlendTexture   true
   Radius   17.112

   EllipticalOrbit
   {
      Epoch   2458600.5  # 2019 Apr 27
      Period   297.67247253600528
      SemiMajorAxis   44.5813998
      Eccentricity   0.0417249
      Inclination       2.45116
      AscendingNode   158.99773
      ArgOfPericenter   174.41771
      MeanAnomaly   316.55084
   }
   UniformRotation
   {
      Period   6
   }
   LunarLambert   0.5
   Albedo   0.095
   InfoURL   "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(486958)_2014_MU69"
}

New Horizons spacecraft add-on... updated

[gironde]

thanks for this

[toutatis]

I'm preparing a 3d model of spacecraft called Toutatis-3... It will go to the Jupiter system and enter into orbit around the planet... the orbit will change several times, in order to achieve close flybys of the Galilean satellites of Jupiter ( Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto )... at the penultimate stage of the mission, Toutatis-3 will enter into orbit around Ganymede... and at the last stage of mission it will crash to Ganymede surface or will leave the orbit around Ganymede and enter into Jupiter atmosphere ( it's like the members of forum will wish, and I will make )...

Add-on Toutatis-3 (SSC-file and XYZV-files) will show 4 stage of mission... 1 stage - departure from Earth and Interplanetary cruise... 2 stage - arriving to the Jupiter system and entering into orbit around the planet... 3 stage - entering into orbit around Ganymede... 4 stage - Finale of mission, it's like you will wish, the members of forum...

Start of mission - 25 February 2019... End of mission - 2025... (planned)

[toutatis]

......................