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I would like to thank everybody who has contibuted to Orbiter. This project has long surpassed my most ambitious expectations, and it would never have gone this far without the incredible and generous help I have received from a large number of people.
Special thanks go to all beta testers, who faithfully examined every shaky beta version thrown at them. Without their contributions and bug reports this version would not have materialised.
For planetary elements and other celestial data I used mainly
the JPL Solar System Dynamics page.
For calculation of orbits and other astronomical problems I used R.
M. Green, Spherical Astronomy, Cambridge University Press
For the atmospheric flight model I found this useful: J. D. Anderson, Jr., Introduction to Flight, McGraw-Hill (4th ed.)
The following list of credits (in alphabetical order) is probably no longer very up-to-date. If you think you should be on the list but aren't, drop me a note and I'll update the page.
Jason Benson
- Mir station mesh and textures
P. Brentagnon, G. Francou
Bureau des Longitudes, CNRS URA 707
- VSOP87 (Planetary perturbation terms from Mercury to Neptune)
Robert Conley
- Atlantis RMS, MMU and satellite extensions
- Atlantis documentation
Elwood Downey
- Lunar ephemeris (perturbation terms for lunar positions)
Andrew Farnaby
- Project Alpha ISS mesh and textures
Javier Fernandez
- Kennedy Space Center surface tiles
Don Gallagher
- Space Shuttle Atlantis mesh and textures
- LDEF satellite mesh and textures
Damir Gulesich
- Space Shuttle External Tank and Solid Rocket Booster mesh and textures
James Hastings-Trew
- Mercury surface map (original: 1024x512 JPG)
- Phobos and Deimos meshes
- Uranus map (original: 1024x512 JPG)
- Uranus ring data
- Neptune map (original: 1024x512 JPG)
David Hopkins
- Space Shuttle Atlantis module code extensions
Bjorn Jonsson
- Venus cloud map (original: 1800x900 JPG)
- Saturn map (original: 1800x900 JPG)
- Saturn ring data
Roger "Frying Tiger" Long
- Delta-glider mesh and textures
- Dragonfly mesh improvements and textures
- Shuttle-A mesh and textures
OpenUniverse
- Mars surface map (original: 8192x4096 JPG)
Valerio Oss
- KSC VAB mesh and textures
Balazs Patyi
- PTV (Personal transport vehicle) mesh and textures
Radu Poenaru
- Dragonfly electrical and environmental simulation, instrument panels and documentation
Dean A. Scott
- Earth cloud map (original: 4096x2048 JPG)
Duncan Sharpe
- TransX MFD module and documentation
Robert Stettner
- Uranus and Neptune major moons (Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon, Triton, Proteus, Nereid)
Philip J. Stooke
Dept. of Geography, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C2
- Phobos map (original: 600x300 JPG)
- Deimos map (original: 800x400 JPG)
David Sundstrom
- Hubble Space Telescope (HST) mesh and textures
Constantine Thomas
- Jupiter map (original: 1024x512 JPG)
James S. Williams
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