Spacecrafts for Celestia
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International Space Station (October 2022)
This addon updates the current flight manifest of the International Space Station as of 2022-Oct-15
WHAT'S NEW?
- Updated docking/undocking times for four crewed missions (Soyuz MS-21 and 22, SpaceX Crew-4 and 5), which collectively just began ISS Expedition 68 on October 14th
- All Starliner missions after OFT-2 were rescheduled from December 2022 to February 2023.
- In addition, all subsequent Axiom missions were also rescheduled to the same time period above
- Added Cygnus flights NG-20 to NG-23
- Beginning dates for the second set of iROSA arrays were delayed to November 2022 following the launch of SpaceX CRS-26
- No specific date yet for the deployment of Nauka's remaining outfitting equipment, but on Celestia, it is delayed from October to December 2022.
DOWNLOAD LATEST VERSION HERE, 2023-Jan-2
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"Open the pod-bay doors HAL"
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Celestia Versions: 1.7.8 (Mobile), 1.6.4 and 1.7.0 (Windows)
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
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Prospero
Prospero, also known as the X-3 and (formerly) Puck, was a small 66-kg satellite that became the first (and last) spacecraft to have been sent into orbit by a British rocket. It was designed to undertake a series of experiments to study the effects of the space environment on communications satellites and remained operational until 1973, however it is reportedly still active until as late as 2004. It was predicted to eventually reenter the Earth's atmosphere by 2070. But in 2021, efforts to retrieve it safely back is currently being pursued by Skyrora
Orbital parameters were based on TLEs retrieved from CelesTrak
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"Open the pod-bay doors HAL"
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
Spacecrafts Addon Developer since 2018
Celestia Versions: 1.7.8 (Mobile), 1.6.4 and 1.7.0 (Windows)
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
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- DaveBowman2001
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Watching JPL's Saving Galileo documentary on YouTube gave me a lot of information regarding the location of the spacecraft's two main parts, the spun and despun sections. Here's toutatis's CMOD model converted back to OBJ now split into two halves
"Open the pod-bay doors HAL"
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
Spacecrafts Addon Developer since 2018
Celestia Versions: 1.7.8 (Mobile), 1.6.4 and 1.7.0 (Windows)
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
Spacecrafts Addon Developer since 2018
Celestia Versions: 1.7.8 (Mobile), 1.6.4 and 1.7.0 (Windows)
How to convert a binary CMOD to OBJ? Opening binary files with editor (to copy vertices and faces) doesn't work, it just shows unreadable (binary) data.DaveBowman2001 wrote:CMOD model converted back to OBJ
Crew: "We are orbiting a black hole."
Control Center: "Do not fly too close to the black hole!"
Crew: "OH OOPS..."
Celestia versions:
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Current projects:
Celestial (a Celestia-like program written in Python)
Control Center: "Do not fly too close to the black hole!"
Crew: "OH OOPS..."
Celestia versions:
1.6.3, 1.7.0 sRGB, 1.6.1 ED (plain)
Current projects:
Celestial (a Celestia-like program written in Python)
Maybe Anim8tor with cmod plugin can help.
Cmodconverter can convert bin cmod files to ascii.
Open, fix, output as ascii.
https://celestia.space/utilites.html
Cmodconverter can convert bin cmod files to ascii.
Open, fix, output as ascii.
https://celestia.space/utilites.html
- SevenSpheres
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EarthMoon wrote:How to convert a binary CMOD to OBJ? Opening binary files with editor (to copy vertices and faces) doesn't work, it just shows unreadable (binary) data.
CMOD to OBJ+MTL converter
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Celestia versions: 1.5.1, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.7.0, and some unofficial versions like Celestia-ED
Celestia versions: 1.5.1, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.7.0, and some unofficial versions like Celestia-ED
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AstroSat-1
Astrosat-1 is India's first dedicated multi-wavelength space observatory, which was launched on a PSLV-XL on 2015-Sept-28. Its five main instruments observe the universe in visible light, ultraviolet, and x-ray regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. It is still active as of 2022.
Orbital parameters are retrieved from CelesTrak
Orbital parameters are retrieved from CelesTrak
"Open the pod-bay doors HAL"
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
Spacecrafts Addon Developer since 2018
Celestia Versions: 1.7.8 (Mobile), 1.6.4 and 1.7.0 (Windows)
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
Spacecrafts Addon Developer since 2018
Celestia Versions: 1.7.8 (Mobile), 1.6.4 and 1.7.0 (Windows)
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BlackSky Satellite Constellation
The BlackSky constellation is a series of small 55 kg earth observation microsatellites about 0.84 m across that produce 1000 images of the Earth's surface every day in 1-m resolution. As of 2022, a total of 16 out of 18 satellites are currently active in LEO, with the other two being destroyed during a launch failure of an Electron rocket in May 2021. A full constellation of 60 satellites are planned in the near future
Orbital data for all satellites are retrieved from CelesTrak. This also serves as an update to gironde's BlackSky addon here
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"Open the pod-bay doors HAL"
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
Spacecrafts Addon Developer since 2018
Celestia Versions: 1.7.8 (Mobile), 1.6.4 and 1.7.0 (Windows)
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
Spacecrafts Addon Developer since 2018
Celestia Versions: 1.7.8 (Mobile), 1.6.4 and 1.7.0 (Windows)
Lucy's Centaur RB Stage (2022 UQ1)
Lucy Centaur RB (the upper stage of the Lucy (destination: Jupiter's trojans) mission)
flew by Earth on Oct 16, 2022 07:00:00 UTC. It was wrongly classified as asteroid (2022 UQ1) after the flyby,
thus I added that alternate designation to the SSC file.
It was expected that the Centaur will be pushed into an orbit between Earth and Mars, but it happened differently:
The centaur stage was redirected into an inner-earth orbit,
its perihelion is between Mercury's and Venus' orbit, aphelion is near Earth's orbit.
INSTALLATION:
If you have my "Juno Centaur, Kepler Booster, Lucy Centaur RB Stage & 6Q0B44E" (or similar) addon installed,
delete/disable its file "Lucy Centaur RB Stage.ssc"! If you don't have it, skip this step.
Just extract this addon into Celestia's extras folder.
Huge thx to: SpaceExplorer for telling me about this "mistake".
Download:
flew by Earth on Oct 16, 2022 07:00:00 UTC. It was wrongly classified as asteroid (2022 UQ1) after the flyby,
thus I added that alternate designation to the SSC file.
It was expected that the Centaur will be pushed into an orbit between Earth and Mars, but it happened differently:
The centaur stage was redirected into an inner-earth orbit,
its perihelion is between Mercury's and Venus' orbit, aphelion is near Earth's orbit.
INSTALLATION:
If you have my "Juno Centaur, Kepler Booster, Lucy Centaur RB Stage & 6Q0B44E" (or similar) addon installed,
delete/disable its file "Lucy Centaur RB Stage.ssc"! If you don't have it, skip this step.
Just extract this addon into Celestia's extras folder.
Huge thx to: SpaceExplorer for telling me about this "mistake".
Download:
Crew: "We are orbiting a black hole."
Control Center: "Do not fly too close to the black hole!"
Crew: "OH OOPS..."
Celestia versions:
1.6.3, 1.7.0 sRGB, 1.6.1 ED (plain)
Current projects:
Celestial (a Celestia-like program written in Python)
Control Center: "Do not fly too close to the black hole!"
Crew: "OH OOPS..."
Celestia versions:
1.6.3, 1.7.0 sRGB, 1.6.1 ED (plain)
Current projects:
Celestial (a Celestia-like program written in Python)
- gironde
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launch 66 of satellites Starlink of SpaceX
date 20-10-2022
n° 2022-136
groupe : Gr4-36
54 satellites
launch 14 of satellites Oneweb
date 22-10-2022
n° 2022-138
site : Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, India
Second Launch Pad
Launch agency : NewSpace India Limited
36 satellites
note : It would be nice to have a Oneweb specific model
date 20-10-2022
n° 2022-136
groupe : Gr4-36
54 satellites
launch 14 of satellites Oneweb
date 22-10-2022
n° 2022-138
site : Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, India
Second Launch Pad
Launch agency : NewSpace India Limited
36 satellites
note : It would be nice to have a Oneweb specific model
gironde wrote:note : It would be nice to have a Oneweb specific model
Here is a model of OneWeb: https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/vehicle/sci-fi-vehicle/oneweb-satellite
(but it costs $10 , it's the cheapest one I found (I don't buy it, of course))
I found it after 30 seconds of searching through the web
Crew: "We are orbiting a black hole."
Control Center: "Do not fly too close to the black hole!"
Crew: "OH OOPS..."
Celestia versions:
1.6.3, 1.7.0 sRGB, 1.6.1 ED (plain)
Current projects:
Celestial (a Celestia-like program written in Python)
Control Center: "Do not fly too close to the black hole!"
Crew: "OH OOPS..."
Celestia versions:
1.6.3, 1.7.0 sRGB, 1.6.1 ED (plain)
Current projects:
Celestial (a Celestia-like program written in Python)
- Anthony_B_Russo10
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Wouldn’t be a good idea in general due to what the licensing would be for such a model.(but it costs $10 , it's the cheapest one I found (I don't buy it, of course))
Anthony B. Russo, I like Pluto. Mod of the Celestia subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Celestiasoftware/
I have over 40 computers, trying to list them here would be a pain.
Responsible for the NEO catalog: https://celestiaproject.space/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=22203
And mod of the Discord server.
I have over 40 computers, trying to list them here would be a pain.
Responsible for the NEO catalog: https://celestiaproject.space/forum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=22203
And mod of the Discord server.
But there is one way to get a (similar) model without losing money: Save the preview images and create a model based on the images.
Crew: "We are orbiting a black hole."
Control Center: "Do not fly too close to the black hole!"
Crew: "OH OOPS..."
Celestia versions:
1.6.3, 1.7.0 sRGB, 1.6.1 ED (plain)
Current projects:
Celestial (a Celestia-like program written in Python)
Control Center: "Do not fly too close to the black hole!"
Crew: "OH OOPS..."
Celestia versions:
1.6.3, 1.7.0 sRGB, 1.6.1 ED (plain)
Current projects:
Celestial (a Celestia-like program written in Python)
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The two halves of Galileo are finished, though it may take a while to upload it here since I'm waiting for the changes I've made for the default installations of Cassini, Galileo, and ISS be officially integrated on Celestia 1.7.0's development
The images below are GIF files. Click on them to view their rotations in action (sped up to 10x real time), which should now 99% mirror the actual hardware's behaviour
The images below are GIF files. Click on them to view their rotations in action (sped up to 10x real time), which should now 99% mirror the actual hardware's behaviour
"Open the pod-bay doors HAL"
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
Spacecrafts Addon Developer since 2018
Celestia Versions: 1.7.8 (Mobile), 1.6.4 and 1.7.0 (Windows)
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
Spacecrafts Addon Developer since 2018
Celestia Versions: 1.7.8 (Mobile), 1.6.4 and 1.7.0 (Windows)
- SevenSpheres
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DaveBowman2001 wrote:[...] I'm waiting for the changes I've made for the default installations of Cassini, Galileo, and ISS be officially integrated on Celestia 1.7.0's development
Could you modify the ISS model to use the original JPG textures, instead of PNG textures (which should only be used in default Celestia when features like transparency are needed)? I'd rather not have to do that just to make a pull request for you...
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No problem....doneSevenSpheres wrote:Could you modify the ISS model to use the original JPG textures, instead of PNG textures (which should only be used in default Celestia when features like transparency are needed)? I'd rather not have to do that just to make a pull request for you...
"Open the pod-bay doors HAL"
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"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
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EarthMoon wrote :
Here is a model of OneWeb: https://www.cgtrader.com/3d-models/vehicle/sci-fi-vehicle/oneweb-satellite
(but it costs $10 , it's the cheapest one I found (I don't buy it, of course))
I know cgtrader.com and as Anthony_B_Russo10 says it wouldn't be a good idea to release a copyrighted model