Spacecrafts for Celestia
- SpaceFanatic64
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I have two missions that sound like they would be good for Celestia. The Pioneer Venus Orbiter and Pioneer Venus Multiprobe. After searching through the internet, I was unable to find 3D models of the probes or trajectory data, so you may have to create them on your own.
If you see that I made a dumb or nonsensical post years ago, please forgive me in advance.
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toutatis wrote:New GAIA model... Autor of the model: ESA (European Space Agency)... Prepared this model for Celestia: toutatis (Alexey Nesterov)...
Art Blos, you might want to add this and update the Gaia Model in Celestia Origin
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Great job, Toutatis.
Thanks Gironde...
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I have two missions that sound like they would be good for Celestia. The Pioneer Venus Orbiter and Pioneer Venus Multiprobe. After searching through the internet, I was unable to find 3D models of the probes or trajectory data, so you may have to create them on your own.
That's possible, if we have some data (dates of start and finish missions, distances between the goal of mission and the probes in some date of the flight , coordinates, etc...) and also the pictures of the probes...
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Venus-Express add-on is ready for Celestia...
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Thanks Gironde... Sometimes I trying to make add-ons too fast, so such small problems can happen...
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"Venus Express" "Sol"
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Class "spacecraft"
Mesh "Venus-Express.cmod"
Radius 0.004
Beginning "2005 11 09 05:06:00"
Ending "2006 04 11 03:00:00"
SampledTrajectory
{
Source "VEX-Cruise.xyzv"
DoublePrecision true
Interpolation "cubic"
}
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Center "Sol/Venus Express"
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Axis "z"
RelativePosition
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Observer "Sol/Venus Express"
Target "Sol"
}
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Axis "y"
RelativeVelocity
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Observer "Sol/Venus Express"
Target "Sol/Earth"
}
}
}
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Period 0.00
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"Venus Express" "Sol/Venus"
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Mesh "Venus-Express.cmod"
Radius 0.004
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Beginning "2006 04 11 03:00:00"
Ending "2006 05 10 00:00:00"
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Ending "2015 01 18 15:01:55"
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It happens to everyone. And sometimes it is the most obvious that the mind refuses to see.
Yes,so...
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Toutatis,
About his big brother, Mars-Express
the site (in French), http://www.nirgal.net/mars_express.html provides us with additional information about Mars Express.
The probe is equipped with a radar, MARSIS, capable of probing the Martian soil to a great depth.
This radar works with a triple arm antenna, 2 large arms carrying the span of the probe at 40m (radius 20m) and a smaller and perpendicular arm of 7m.
The MARSIS antenna has been deployed in several phases
May 4, 2005 (1st arm of 20m)
June 14, 2005 (2nd arm of 20m)
June 17, 2005 (3rd arm of 7m)
Can you improve your addon of September 4th, 2018 by separating the period 'cruise' without the antennas ( radius 6m) and a period 'orbiter' with the antennas (radius 20m) ?
This would require 2 models 3D
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About his big brother, Mars-Express
the site (in French), http://www.nirgal.net/mars_express.html provides us with additional information about Mars Express.
The probe is equipped with a radar, MARSIS, capable of probing the Martian soil to a great depth.
This radar works with a triple arm antenna, 2 large arms carrying the span of the probe at 40m (radius 20m) and a smaller and perpendicular arm of 7m.
The MARSIS antenna has been deployed in several phases
May 4, 2005 (1st arm of 20m)
June 14, 2005 (2nd arm of 20m)
June 17, 2005 (3rd arm of 7m)
Can you improve your addon of September 4th, 2018 by separating the period 'cruise' without the antennas ( radius 6m) and a period 'orbiter' with the antennas (radius 20m) ?
This would require 2 models 3D
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Topic authortoutatis
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Can you improve your addon of September 4th, 2018 by separating the period 'cruise' without the antennas ( radius 6m) and a period 'orbiter' with the antennas (radius 20m) ?
This would require 2 models 3D
Yes Gironde... I can.. no problem... and my next work is Mars Express..
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I will prepare new model from ESA website... and I can transform any models...