space-junker

Inspired by Kerbal Space Program, this is an orbital mechanics simulator that builds upon my previous project at expanse-sandbox.

This project leverages several resources:

• Planetary Textures:
  • http://planetpixelemporium.com/sun.html
  • http://www.shadedrelief.com/natural3/pages/textures.html
• NASA Craft Models (Sketchup 3D Warehouse):
  • https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=cdfbbdbb8503f57c115f0b7032477834
• Planetary Data for initial plotting care of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  • Keplerian Elements

Technology used:

• JavaScript (self-contained, runs in the browser)
• Three.js / WebGL (provides 3D graphics)
• React / Vue (experimented with both libraries for rendering UI Components)
• Webpack (provides build / bundling / dev server)

Installation

Requires npm

$ git clone https://github.com/seanpile/space-junker
$ cd space-junker

# Install all dependencies
$ npm install

# Start dev server
$ npm start

# Simulation is available at http://localhost:8080/index.html

Meta

Sean Dawson – @seanpiled

Distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.

https://github.com/seanpile