Solar System Simulator written in Java. Positions and velocities of Solar System bodies and Spacecraft are continuously updated using either Newton mechanics or General Relativity. Initial positions and velocities are obtained from Nasa JPL's ephemerides. While simulating, both simulated positions and ephemeris data are visualised for comparison. Source code is made publicly availaible under the MIT licence.
User's manual: SolarSystemManual.pdf
Technical notes: SolarSystemTechnicalNotes.pdf
Video The Journey of Voyager 1: https://youtu.be/HgLGFVqZAUw
Video The Journey of Voyager 2: https://youtu.be/_JBRZJpCbRg
Video The Grand Tour of Voyager: https://youtu.be/Yq0LxCjSxdI
Video The Journeys of Pioneers 10 and 11: https://youtu.be/a5LRzPxkXR4
Video The Journey of Galileo: https://youtu.be/9zmWbzj6hq8
Video The Journey of Cassini: https://youtu.be/bIHReSQoMjA
Video The Journey of New Horizons: https://youtu.be/eeLuBIomQ44
Video The Journey of Apollo 8: https://youtu.be/XaKjY08vBnA
Video The Journey of Rosetta: https://youtu.be/oY79OQmN518
Video The Journey of Mariner 10: https://youtu.be/lOKnr1tp4TQ
Video The Journey of Giotto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45rrlIs2UxU
Required ephemeris files:
DE405EphemerisFiles (directory containing DE405 ephemeris data as text files)
EphemerisFiles (directory containing .txt files)
EphemerisFilesBSP (directory containing .bsp files)
Library required for reading models from file: jimObjModelImporterJFX.jar, see http://www.InteractiveMesh.com
Copyright (c) 2017 Nico Kuijpers
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