Martin Schweiger's Orbiter Space Flight Simulator

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"Go Play In Space" by Bruce Irving - Introductory Tutorial manual for Orbiter.

Martin Schweiger's Orbiter Space Flight Simulator

Free Orbiter Software

Orbiter (available from www.orbitersim.com) is a freeware space flight simulator for the PC that is fun, powerful, realistic, expandable, and educational. The download page directs you to several "mirror" sites that actually host the program zip files.

Based on the real science and math of orbital mechanics and atmospheric flight, it features a first-person astronaut's perspective and beautiful 3D graphics. Orbiter's developer, Dr. Martin Schweiger, has created an amazing virtual world of real and fictional spacecraft, space stations, planets, and moons. It includes a variety of spacecraft, space stations, and sample scenarios or "missions."

Mar Orbit

First impressions - 2005

Press Releases

Press Release - May 4th 2006

Books

"Go Play In Space" (Second Edition) subtitled "Fun with Martin Schweiger's Orbiter Space Flight Simulator", is an introductory tutorial manual for Orbiter written by Bruce Irving with Andy McSorley.

'Mars - Just Imagine' by Bruce Irving - This PDF file is a colorful picture book about humans going to Mars, how they might realistically go about this, and where this might lead in the future.

Missions

In orbit over the USA and Australia

Apollo 14

International Space Station

International Space Station over Chino...

Apollo screen caps from Apollo Lunar Mission Tutorial by John Dunn www.jdkbph.com/ALMT/index.htm

Other screen caps by Bruce Irving with standard Orbiter 2005 installation, plus high-resolution "level 9" earth textures, well worth installing (free of course, all Orbiter stuff is amazingly free) - search for orbiter mods

Links

Links and 3rd party mods

"Go Play In Space" (Second Edition) - an Introductory Tutorial manual for Orbiter Space Flight Simulator.

"Go Play In Space" (Second Edition)
Fun with Martin Schweiger's Orbiter Space Flight Simulator.
an Introductory Tutorial manual for Orbiter - written by Bruce Irving.

Read excerpts and more here

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