{"id":16953,"date":"2018-10-28T14:03:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T18:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16953"},"modified":"2018-10-28T14:04:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T18:04:02","slug":"spacemissions-a-3d-solar-system-space-missions-simulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16953","title":{"rendered":"SpaceMissions &#8211; a 3D Solar System &#038; Space Missions Simulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Wenz at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.binary-space.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Binary Space<\/a> informs me that <a title=\"Get SpaceMissions&#x2122; - Microsoft Store\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/p\/spacemissions\/9n17nxkljgrr\">SpaceMissions&#x2122;<\/a> is now available in the <a title=\"Get SpaceMissions&#x2122; - Microsoft Store\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/p\/spacemissions\/9n17nxkljgrr\">Microsoft Store<\/a>. SpaceMissions&#x2122; is<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em> a 3D Solar System &amp; Space Missions Simulator supporting most Earth-centric spacecraft as well as some selected interplanetary missions (like MSL, Rosetta, OSIRIS-REx and more): Travel through our Solar System, visit planets, comets, asteroids and watch critical maneuvers of interstellar probes at any time from any desired perspective.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/p\/spacemissions\/9n17nxkljgrr?rtc=1&amp;activetab=pivot:overviewtab\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16954\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=16954\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image001.png\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SpaceMissions\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image001-300x169.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image001-1024x576.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-16954\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image001-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image001-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image001-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image001-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/image001.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adrian tells me that the program will be further improved in a &#8220;step by step by adding more space missions (e.g. Insight), features and by removing any detected bugs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a clip showing some of the features of the program (which was referred to as SpaceTraveller during its development):<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R5VkJuDxlUs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1250098963\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1250098963&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=hobbyspace&amp;linkId=55ed9e509e63ce1415500f5d234d1636\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=hobbyspace&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1250098963\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=1250098963&amp;asins=1250098963&amp;linkId=06b5268baad8fe2fe8d39baba17fb36c&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066c0&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Wenz at Binary Space informs me that SpaceMissions&#x2122; is now available in the Microsoft Store. SpaceMissions&#x2122; is a 3D Solar System &amp; Space Missions Simulator supporting most Earth-centric spacecraft as well as some selected interplanetary missions (like MSL, Rosetta, OSIRIS-REx and more): Travel through our Solar System, visit planets, comets, asteroids and watch critical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16953\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SpaceMissions &#8211; a 3D Solar System &#038; Space Missions Simulator<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,28,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simulators","category-software","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-4pr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13165,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13165","url_meta":{"origin":16953,"position":0},"title":"Video: Simulation of Rosetta&#8217;s final maneuvers and landing on Comet 67P\/C-G","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 8, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The European Space Agency's\u00a0Rosetta\u00a0mission to the Comet 67P\/Churyumov-Gerasimenko will end soon with the spacecraft touching down onto the icy rock sometime around\u00a0September 29-30, 2016. 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