The Big Data Update Tracker

[SevenSpheres]

This is the issue for tracking updates to all data files.

Solar System

Check each object when its data, model (if any), and texture(s) (if any) have all been updated.
I've made some suggestions for additional minor bodies to add to the default data files.

solarsys.ssc

• Mercury
• Venus
• Earth
  • Moon (update texture)
• Mars
  • Phobos
  • Deimos
• Jupiter
  • Io (update/remove limit-of-knowledge texture)
  • Europa (update/remove limit-of-knowledge texture)
  • Ganymede (update/remove limit-of-knowledge texture)
  • Callisto (update/remove limit-of-knowledge texture)
• Saturn
  • Mimas (add model)
  • Enceladus
  • Tethys (add model)
  • Dione (add model)
  • Rhea (add model)
  • Titan
  • Hyperion
  • Iapetus (update custom orbit: use https://ftp.imcce.fr/pub/ephem/satel/)
  • Phoebe
• Uranus
  • Miranda
  • Ariel (texture)
  • Umbriel (texture)
  • Titania (texture)
  • Oberon (texture)
• Neptune (update texture: use original resolution, orientation, and true colour correction)
  • Proteus
  • Triton
  • Nereid

dwarfplanets.ssc

• Pluto
  • Charon
  • Styx
  • Nix
  • Kerberos
  • Hydra
• Ceres
• Orcus
  • Vanth
• Haumea
  • Namaka
  • Hi'iaka
• Quaoar
  • Quaoar's second moon
  • Weywot
• Makemake
  • S/2015 (136472) 1
• Gonggong
  • Xiangliu
• Eris
  • Dysnomia
• Sedna

asteroids.ssc

• 2 Pallas
• 3 Juno
• 4 Vesta
• 7 Iris
• 10 Hygiea
• 16 Psyche
• 45 Eugenia & 2 moons
• 87 Sylvia & 2 moons
• 130 Elektra & 3 moons
• 216 Kleopatra & 2 moons
• 704 Interamnia
• 21 Lutetia
• 243 Ida
  • Dactyl (texture)
• 253 Mathilde
• 433 Eros
• 617 Patroclus & Menoetius
• 951 Gaspra
• 2867 Steins
• 3548 Eurybates & Queta
• 4179 Toutatis
• 5535 Annefrank (add)
• 9969 Braille (add)
• 11351 Leucus
• 15094 Polymele & moon
• 21900 Orus
• 25143 Itokawa
• 52246 Donaldjohanson (add)
• 65803 Didymos & Dimorphos
• 98943 Torifune (add)
• 99942 Apophis (add)
• 101955 Bennu
• 152830 Dinkinesh & Selam (add)
• 162173 Ryugu
• 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (add)
• 1620 Geographos
• 2063 Bacchus
• 4769 Castalia
• 6489 Golevka
• 66391 Moshup & Squannit
• (153591) 2001 SN263 & 2 moons
• 1998 KY26
• 1252 Celestia

comets.ssc

• 1P/Halley
• 2P/Encke
• 9P/Tempel (add)
• 17P/Holmes
• 19P/Borrelly
• 21P/Giacobini-Zinner
• 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup
• 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann
• 46P/Wirtanen
• 55P/Tempel-Tuttle
• 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (add)
• 81P/Wild (add)
• 96P/Machholz
• 103P/Hartley (add)
• 109P/Swift–Tuttle
• 167P/CINEOS
• 311P/PanSTARRS (add)
• 153P/Ikeya-Zhang
• C/1983 H1 (IRAS-Araki-Alcock)
• C/1956 R1 (Arend-Roland)
• C/1973 E1 (Kohoutek)
• C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp)
• C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake)
• C/2006 P1 (McNaught)
• C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring)
• C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein)
• C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE)
• C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)

interstellar.ssc

• 1I/'Oumuamua
• 2I/Borisov
• 3I/ATLAS

outersys.ssc

• 2060 Chiron (update ring texture)
• 10199 Chariklo
• 15760 Albion
• 19521 Chaos
• 20000 Varuna
• 28978 Ixion
• 38628 Huya & moon
• 47171 Lempo, Hiisi, & Paha
• 55565 Aya
• 55637 Uni & Tinia
• 78799 Xewioso
• 90568 Goibniu
• 120347 Salacia & Actaea
• 145451 Rumina
• 145452 Ritona
• 174567 Varda & Ilmarë
• 208996 Achlys
• 229762 Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà & Gǃòʼé ǃHú
• 307261 Máni
• 471143 Dziewanna
• 486958 Arrokoth
• 532037 Chiminigagua & moon
• (612911) 2004 XR190
• 2014 UZ224

minormoons.ssc

I'm not listing every single minor moon since there are so many - this file should include all planetary satellites not listed under the solarsys.ssc heading (yes, that does imply some moons being moved from solarsys.ssc).

• Jupiter's moons
• Saturn's moons
• Uranus' moons
• Neptune's moons

Locations

• merc_locs.ssc
• venus_locs.ssc
• earth_locs.ssc (obviously doesn't need an update)
• moon_locs.ssc
• mars_locs.ssc
• marsmoons_locs.ssc
• jupitermoons_locs.ssc
• saturnmoons_locs.ssc
• uranusmoons_locs.ssc
• neptunemoons_locs.ssc
• dwarfplanets_locs.ssc
  • Ceres
  • Pluto
  • Charon
• asteroids_locs.ssc
  • 4 Vesta
  • 21 Lutetia
  • 243 Ida
  • 253 Mathilde
  • 433 Eros
  • 951 Gaspra
  • 2867 Steins
  • 25143 Itokawa
  • 52246 Donaldjohanson (add)
  • 65803 Didymos & Dimorphos
  • 101955 Bennu
  • 152830 Dinkinesh & Selam (add)
  • 162173 Ryugu
  • 486958 Arrokoth
• ring_locs.ssc (update)
  • Jupiter
  • Saturn
  • Uranus
  • Neptune
  • Haumea (there is only one component, so naming is redundant; this is commented out)
  • Quaoar
  • 2060 Chiron (https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20693)
  • 10199 Chariklo
• world-capitals.ssc (update)

Stars

• Update the main star database (stars.dat, starxindex-hd.dat, starxindex-sao.dat)
  • Possibly add more cross-index files
• Overhaul stars-.stc files
  • stars-bright.stc (add)
  • stars-named.stc (add) — for named stars not in Celestia.
  • stars-near.stc (update)
  • stars-revised.stc (update)
  • Update the binary star catalog files
  • Replace outdated stellar radius file stars-charm2.stc with stars-jmdc.stc, using JMDC
• Update star textures
  • Non-darkened star textures
  • Grayscale textures for BlendTexture to allow better integration with star colour modes

Exoplanets

• The Exoplanet Catalog (maintain)
• exo-class_n_ textures: make class4 and class5 textures orientation-ambiguous
• Make and add new exoplanet textures
  • lava (lava ocean planets)
  • uhj (ultra-hot Jupiters)

DSOs

• galaxies.dsc (update)
• globulars.dsc
• openclusters.dsc

Spacecraft (extras-standard) -- see #144

• Apollo 11
• Cassini
• Friendship 7
• Galileo
• Gemini
• Hubble
• ISS
• Mars Odyssey
• MGS
• Mir
• Skylab
• more?

Wow, that's a lot of stuff, and probably more I missed...

[SevenSpheres]

Maybe the Projects function could be used for this?

[375gnu]

Projects is like releases, personally i don't see how to split this into projects.

[DaveBowman2001]

Mir should be checked as resolved now as per #286