Surface location

Orbiter Scenario Editor

# Surface location

Applying options from this page will place your vessel on the surface of a planet or moon.

First you should select in the Celestial body box the body on which to place the vessel.

If applicable, select a spaceport in the Surface base box, and a Landing pad for your vessel.

Alternatively, you can directly input the equatorial coordinates of your landing site in the Longitude and Latitude boxes.

Use the Heading box to adjust the orientation of your vessel on the ground.

You can use the spin buttons next to the Longitude, Latitude and Heading boxes to adjust the values (small spinners scroll by small amounts, large spinners scroll by large amounts).

If you enter numerical values directly, you must press Apply to register the new values.

In the current version, docked assemblies of vessels on the ground are not supported. Therefore avoid assigning a surface position to a vessel that is part of a docked superstructure.

## Copy state

Similar to the Status vector page, the Surface location page provides a list of vessels from which the surface parameters can be copied over. All vessels in the list are currently landed on a planetary surface. By clicking on an entry in the list, that vessel’s surface parameters are copied into the scenario editor page. You can then click Apply to move your spacecraft to the specified vessel’s location. Alternatively, double-clicking applies the copied parameters immediately. Once you copied your spacecraft onto the other vessel, you can then edit the surface position parameters to fine-tune the relative position and heading of the two vessels.