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ROSETTA ESA's Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Includes Rosetta spacecraft and Philae lander, comet 67P, asteroids 2867 Steins and 21 Lutetia. Take a look at mission highlights in the scenarios or fly it yourself from launch at Kourou 2004 to landing on the comet in 2014. New...

FYI I just released V.3D of the Rosetta add-on, with these interesting features (which I had already mentioned upthread): - Corrected 67P spin axis and obliquity (now conform to latest science data) - New scenario demonstrating VERY strange orbit of 67P created by fast spin + lumpy gravity...

I made another video showing the possible flight path of Philae: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXgcU5mvJhA&list=PLcoFChnR-MRhLMzzjO0cDNkx7AU1LBTM9&index=7 This is very close to the version that ESA thinks happened. FYI I made some updates to the Rosetta/Philae add-on that improve realism...

Thanks for letting me know. I messaged Xyon but I also put the file on my download site below, so that you don't have to wait ;-) http://brenthugh.com/orbiter/rosetta_v3C.zip ---------- Post added 11-20-14 at 09:56 AM ---------- Previous post was 11-19-14 at 03:47 PM ---------- I've been...

No, it's just using a basic sphere for now. So that part is not completely realistic. I thought just modeling the gravity as two spheres rigidly attached to each other--each one centered in each end of the comet, would probably be a major improvement. But I can't see that orbiter is capable...

Hey all, I've been using Orbiter to check out the best possibilities for where the Philae comet lander may have ended up after the Great Bounce it took the other day. You can check out the results here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcoFChnR-MRhLMzzjO0cDNkx7AU1LBTM9 As a by-product...

This is a quick mod of Brian Jones's excellent Rosetta add-on, that allows the use of the recently released detailed 3-D model of comet 67/P, which are the subject of a mission of exploration by the ESA's Rosetta orbiter and Philae lander. The rotation period of the comet is also updated to...