During the Apollo 12 mission, Astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean landed near Surveyor 3 in on 19 November 1969 and returned some of the components of the Surveyor 3 spacecraft to Earth for engineering analysis. Surveyor 3 carried a television camera system (which ultimately returned 6326 images) and a soil mechanics surface sampling device (which operated for over 18 hours) to test the properties of the lunar surface. The mission's objectives were to soft land on the Moon and collect information on the properties of the lunar regolith to prepare for the upcoming Apollo missions.

I attached the scenario file, which is outdated for the current version of NASSP but you may use the MJD, LM position&velocity and PGNS memory content from it.Surveyor 3 was launched on 17 April 1967 and landed in Oceanus Procellarum on 20 April 1967. I wanted to achieve some historical accuracy in case of Apollo 11, so I set up a scenario where the PGNS is set up for the original preflight landing site, but tweaked the LM's position and velocity till it'd land without crew action on the northern rim of the (larger) West Crater, as it happened in real life. So practically, if you want the LM to land at a certain spot, use the LROC coords of it, upload it as target LS through RTCC, and also set up a good SV before PDI and you may let it go. It is differing from LROC with the magnitude of km, but even between two missions you may find a difference of 100m magnitude. The mission reports and also the flight plans give some hint on what coordinate systems were used back in Apolo times. So in this sense, if you look up the coordinates of an object in the LROC data, then you will find that object at exactly the same coordinates in Orbitersim. I consider latter as reference and made my textures conformant to this. I have made a lot of effort on determining the connection between the Apollo-era coordinate system and the LROC's. Where do I Put these Elev and Surf directories in Orbiter Beta, under which file structure.?Īny suggestion or help would be appreciated. I have tried to put these Elev and Surf directories in ProjectApollo, or under Textures and Textures2 but - No result I have a lunar Elev and Surf directory containing dir 11, 12 all the way up to 17, containing dir 000044 and so on with 000130.elv file for example. Under Textures -> Moon -> You have the ee and ee files The other struggeling problem I have are the elv file extensions.

Where do I put these textures in Orbiter Beta.? The Basemap is LOLA average sun visibility. The 13 candidate Artemis III landing sites as seen on Quickmap 8. Under Textures -> ProjectApollo - No result LROC continues to target NAC observations to support upcoming missions, including commercial landers, and for areas of interest to the lunar science community 11. I have put these directory textures under Textures - No result, Like Moon -> Surf -> dir 12, 13, 14 all the way up to 18 with different dds textures from different lunar landing sites The Apollo_11_LS_textures_v1 directories contain different directories. What ever I tried or do, I do not see these textures on the lunar surface, all I see are the installed Micro surface textures. I am struggeling some time to implement the Apollo_11_LS_textures_v1 (moon landing site textures), into Orbiter Beta.

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