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Uchusen Rockets宇宙船

Rockets drawn from sourced sizes: line drawings and painted 3D views you drop into a page, take apart and turn round, and a typed model that checks whether a rocket really goes together.

Uchusen is the Japanese word 宇宙船 for spaceship. About the name

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Reference · Journey mode: transfers, launch windows and flip-and-burn trips

BodySourcetype

Where the stops are, and what they are. The journey's core takes one of these and imports nothing.

Import it

import type { BodySource } from "@johnmorrisdotca/uchusen-rockets/journey";

Definition

interface BodySource {
    stops: readonly Stop[];
    positionAu(id: string, ms: number): readonly [
        number,
        number,
        number
    ];
    offsetKm(id: string, ms: number): readonly [
        number,
        number,
        number
    ];
}

Members

NameTypeDescription
stopsreadonly Stop[]
positionAu(id: string, ms: number): readonly [number, number, number]

A planet's position round the Sun (ecliptic, astronomical units) at a time in milliseconds since 1970.

offsetKm(id: string, ms: number): readonly [number, number, number]

A moon's position from its planet's centre (ecliptic, kilometres) at a time.

Examples

import type { BodySource } from "@johnmorrisdotca/uchusen-rockets/journey";

const empty: BodySource = { stops: [], positionAu: () => [0, 0, 0], offsetKm: () => [0, 0, 0] };
console.log(empty.stops.length);
0

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/uchusen-rockets 0.14.0.