Nasa Eyes - trajectory visualization

[johan]

So yesterday I discovered this: http://eyes.nasa.gov/

Which looks like it will help me a great deal with visualising trajectories in general, and in particular to understand what's going on during an eject burn.

A topical example is setting the visualisation to Juno's launch window to see visually how its orbit was oriented before the eject burn.

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Except I just tried it and it doesn't seem to be as amazing as I thought it would be. Looks like they only add June AFTER the burn.

 

[johan]

And then I found this: [ame="http://orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=4864"]Videnie orbit drawing 1.0[/ame]

Which is a LOT better for visualising orbits. Now I can do an eject burn to Jupiter, take a look outside and compare what I see with the numbers in TransX or IMFD or whatever, and at least learn something.

Not that Nasa's tool isn't cool :-D :tiphat: