Sunlen, a fictional planetary system (IN DEVELOPMENT)

[SpaceExplorer]

Yes, this was planned. Familiar names reminiscent of objects in our Solar System. For example, Jupion, sounds like Jupiter.

[SpaceExplorer]

Orbits of the first five outer moons of Jupion:

[trappistplanets]

The moons and planets names sounds like names from solar system

i knew it someone would notice and mention it, i noticed it but decided to not pipe up anything about it

[SpaceExplorer]

All 20 of Jupion's moons have been added! 2 are internal, 5 spherical and 13 external.
Next week I will start adding Satunion moons, I plan to add 28.

[SpaceExplorer]

Updated Terranion atmosphere! It got much better, honestly. The parameters were provided by TheLostProbe.

[SpaceExplorer]

Pon, the first moon of Satunion added. It orbits in a gap in the planet's rings.

[SpaceExplorer]

In addition, the system now contains a total of 15 asteroids and 10 comets.

[SpaceExplorer]

New things added this last week:

- Added super bolide that is on a collision course with Terranion

- Added Apophis-like asteroid

- Added comet that is on a collision course with Jupion.

- Added texture for Amalea (Jupion's moon)

- Added a total of 8 moons of Satunion. Still need to add 20.

I'm also working on something very interesting (but for now it's a secret)

[SpaceExplorer]

Now Satunion already has 14 moons. There are still 14 more to go. Of course I had to add a Titan-like moon, named Titoan. The surface texture of the moon is by John Van Vliet, I just made a few changes to it in terms of color.

[SpaceExplorer]

Finally concludes the 28 moons of Satunion. After that, I will create 12 moons for Uranion and 10 moons for Neptunion.

[SpaceExplorer]

Of course it couldn't be missing, a Pluto-Charon like system, and here it is, Plution and Chyarion

[SpaceExplorer]

The 4 inner and irregular moons of Uranion. In the next few days I will add 5 large and spherical moons, and finally 5 outer and also irregular moons. Now the total will be 14 moons, 2 more than planned.

[SpaceExplorer]

Uranion now has its 14 moons! There are 4 internal, 5 spherical and 5 external.

[SpaceExplorer]

And here is also the first centaur. With the rings, it clearly reminds us of Chariklo or Chiron.

[TheLostProbe]

lovely rings! and where did you get that model from?

by the way, next friday is the last day of this term, so i will have more free time to help you with sunlen development

[SpaceExplorer]

Several asteroid models are available for download in this thread: viewtopic.php?f=23&t=20402

They were models created by Astra/Snowfall and converted to cmod by fyr02 and LukeCEL. They are excellent models.

And well, at the moment I would only need a reduced size Terranion night map. Development so far is going very well.

[SpaceExplorer]

Here's the "secret". When watching some KSP videos, I remembered, why not do something similar on a fictional system in Celestia? And here's a demonstration, a NEAR-like probe that performs a flyby of two NTOs (Near-Terranion Objects). The first asteroid is an Apophis-like one, the same one that brushes past Terranion, and the second is a large asteroid with a moon. All asteroid and probe positions were defined based on the SSC.

It would be fantastic if Celestia simulated gravity, it would be possible to use a gravitational assist from Terranion for this probe to reach the main belt and explore some other asteroid. But unfortunately gravity is not simulated on Celestia.

3D model of the NEAR probe that was used is by Jack Higgins

[SevenSpheres]

It would be fantastic if Celestia simulated gravity, it would be possible to use a gravitational assist from Terranion for this probe to reach the main belt and explore some other asteroid. But unfortunately gravity is not simulated on Celestia.

You just have to simulate it yourself in the trajectory.

[SpaceExplorer]

Oh yes. As far as I know, it would be possible to define a new SSC trajectory after the first one. But for now I won't do that, I have to finish other things in terms of development.

[TheLostProbe]

you can use xyzv and/or spice files for spacecraft (and non-spacecraft bodies!) instead of ssc trajectories, which allows you to set the course of the spacecraft along a preset course. because the trajectory is preset, it allows you to "simulate" the gravity of objects in space pulling the craft in a different direction