Week 30, 2022: 问天实验舱发射升空到达天宫空间站
问天实验舱从文昌卫星中心发射升空(左图),工程师在进行发射前的流程(右图)。
北京时间7月24日14时22分,天宫空间站扩展舱,问天由长征五号B火箭运载在海南文昌航天发射场成功发射升空。约13小时后,问天实验舱与天和核心舱完成自主前向交会对接。次日神舟十四号航天员乘组成功开启问天实验舱舱门,顺利进入问天实验舱。目前正在准备在接下来的几天里将问天实验舱从当前所在的天和前向前向端口转移到径向对接端口。
在 Celestia 中,你可以下载天宫空间站插件来查看空间站的复杂结构。
你也可以下载晴天钟来查看空间站的实时位置,以及过境时间。
Newest Addons of the Week
These are the newest and updated add-ons available for download starting in the past two weeks (July 18 - 30, 2022) by category
Asteroids & NEOs
The bolide that caused the 1972 Great Daylight meteor seen here severely burnt after its encounter with Earth's atmosphere
- 13 Egeria by Art Blos and Greg Frieger
- 1947 Sikhote-Alin meteor by Medusa
- 1972 Great Daylight meteor by Medusa
Comets
The cometary fragment only just a few hours before it exploded over Tunguska in Siberia, Russia in 1908-Jun-30
- 1908 Tunguska meteor by Medusa and gradius_fanatic
Updates
Exoplanets
The red dwarf star looms large over the horizon of its planet, Kepler-438 Ab
- AU Microscopii by SevenSpheres
- Epsilon Indi by SevenSpheres
- Gliese 15 by SevenSpheres
- Gliese 725 by SevenSpheres
- HAT-P-11 by adios
- K2-332 by DrJMOS
- Kepler-11 by adios
- Kepler-438 by DrJMOS and 小绿人医_中心
- Kepler-1410 by DrJMOS
- Kepler-1634 by DrJMOS
- Kepler-1638 by DrJMOS
- MOA-2007-BLG-192L by Gurren Lagann
- MOA-2007-BLG-400L by Gurren Lagann
- OGLE-2013-BLG-0341L by SevenSpheres and Gurren Lagann
- Ross 458 by Trolligi
- WASP-107 by Astronauta
Unconfirmed Planets
- 2MASS J11193254-1137466 by Trolligi and Steve Bowers
- 82 Eridani (Unconfirmed Planets) by Astro and fyr02
- KOI-4878 by DrJMOS
- KOI-5737 by DrJMOS
- KOI-7235 by DrJMOS
Updates
Fictional
Darwin IV, the primary setting of the acclaimed 1990 novel (Expedition) and 2005 TV special on Discovery Channel (Alien Planet)
- Celestia Spaceships by Frank Gregorio and Jestr
- Darwin IV by Grey ideas, trappistplanets and SevenSpheres
- Future Earth by Hal Bowman
- Portal 2 cores by cubicApoc
Planets & Moons
The first global maps of Mars taken in B&W by the Mariner probes from 1969 to 1972
- Mars (1969-1972) by DaveBowman2001
Spacecraft
WISE is the observatory that discovered C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE), aka the Great Comet of 2020
- CAPSTONE by DaveBowman2001
- Diwata-2B by DaveBowman2001
- Earth Observing-1 by toutatis
- Göktürk-2 by gironde
- QuikSCAT by gironde
- Syncom I to III by DaveBowman2001
- Syncom IV/Leasat by DaveBowman2001
- TRAAC by toutatis
- TRMM by toutatis and gironde
- WISE by DaveBowman2001
Updates
Stars
A distant eclipsing binary star system known as BM Cassiopeiae
- BM Cassiopeiae by Trolligi
- WR 7a by Trolligi and Gurren Lagann
- WR 72 by Trolligi and Gurren Lagann
Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs)
The surfaces of Pluto and its moon, Charon, rendered in 3D
- Charon (3D model) by Greg Frieger
- Pluto (3D model) by Greg Frieger
Other news: What's new in Celestia 1.5.7