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Space Trajectory Analysis

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:43:39 +0000

STA development is based on open source, state of the art, astrodynamics routines.

The 3D visuals of STA are based on “…Celestia, The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions…”.

The STA project allows a strong link among these disciplines by reinforcing the academic community with requirements and needs coming from space agencies and industry real needs and missions.

Stellarium

admin — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:13:21 +0000

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.

It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.

Celestia

admin — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:10:16 +0000

Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn’t confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.

All movement in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A ‘point-and-goto’ interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit.

Celestia is expandable. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that’s not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects.