The Orbinauts, 28 March, 2008 -
pop: +/- 173 visitable sites!
(+a few additional links, updated at least once per month, if
possible!) - +/- on HOLD! :-/
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Note (end of March / April 2008): trying to slowly (re)start updates + additions to Community links (might take some time, thanks for waiting!)

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the people we speak to in Orbiter Forum live.
Fantastic work by Dansteph! Related link
here |
Index:
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Official
Orbiter Site by Martin Schweiger
www.orbitersim.com
(http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~martins/orbit/orbit.html)
Home of Orbiter Free Space Flight Simulator & its
forum
(older
one here!). |
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www.orbiter-forum.com
http://www.orbiter-forum.com
Hosted by fellow Tex orbinaut, these forums have very attractive features / looks and are becoming a good alternative to the M6 forums: several Orbiter Community members are joining... |
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Orbit
Hangar Mods by x292 (Vash)
www.orbithangar.com
File Library with many nice features, it's the
most popular too: if you want to know what is going on (latest
addons/betas) this is your place ;-) |
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AVSIM
www.avsim.com,
Orbiter
File Library here -
forum
Orbiter files repository, as well as for other
Flight Simulators...
Many people around there. I recomend you also upload at avsim the
final/stable versions of your addons for maximum publicity. |
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Mustard:
the website of the francophone addons
http://orbiter.mustard-fr.com
Complete "Orbiter+full addons"
package (+/- 300 addons already installed). Also: Mustard's
addons (station modules), Kourou-CSG, Tintin plus more station
modules, etc (by Papyref, No matter, Well), gallery, work in
progress, links... |
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The
Daily Planet - Orbiter News by Vash (offline?)
http://orbiternews.no-ip.com
Post comments to news
stories and write your own news stories! |
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Dan's
Orbiter Page by Dansteph
http://orbiter.dansteph.com
Home of Orbiter Sound module, Deltaglider
II&III,
with forum
(Francophone section
available). Tutorials. |
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Orbiter
Fan Site by Vinka
http://users.swing.be/vinka/
Site of Multistage and Spacecraft DLL modules
(MUST HAVE).
Also: 3ds2msh, Ariane IV and V addons.... |
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Orbital
Mods by McDope (Manuel Amorim)
www.orbitmods.com
Many (almost all?) russian rockets/hardware for
Orbiter were first made by McDope, with
forum
(offline?) |
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Orbiter
Stuff by Radu Poenaru (sometimes offline)
http://217.10.196.198/Orbiter/main.html
Author of Dragonfly, LCX-59, Atlantis Panel,
System&PanelSDK, OSMFD, Planetary Perturbations, Msh Maker,
OCFD... |
Orbiter Web Forum: Tutorials and FAQ Links
(please try a look at these from time to time!)
Beginners
guide to Orbiter - Tutorials
Orbiter
Web Forum: Tutorials Links
(old / outdated / offline)...
Orbiter
2006 - Frequently Asked Questions
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Go
Play in Space by FlyingSinger (Bruce Irving)
Cool introduction to spaceflight and to our
favourite space sim! Available at:
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Music
of the Spheres by FlyingSinger
http://flyingsinger.blogspot.com
"My blog, mostly talking about Orbiter, with
occasional posts on other space topics and music."
Also: Orbiter related pictures
here. |
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Virtual
Spaceflight by AndyMc (Andy McSorley)
http://www.aovi93.dsl.pipex.com/
"The purpose of this site is to help to
promote the great Freeware space simulator program". Good
links, TTM24 info, Tutorials, Black Arrow, CEV, CD and DVD Jewel
case inserts... :-) |
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Orbiter
School - Become an Orbinaut
by falcoleprof and others
http://orbiterschool.com
Getting Orbiter inside schools by making it
simpler for students and educators to get the much needed tutorials
they need. |
In
Darkness, The Rose (by Staiduk) - This is an account of the
actions taken by the Firefly-class Independent trader Emerald Rose in
June, 2588. What follows has been collected from downloaded logs, ship
scans and interviews by Alliance personnel and other involved
persons(...)
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OrbiterWiki
http://www.orbiterwiki.org
Collecting FAQ, information, documentation, nav
and dev tutorials, plug-ins and other Orbiter related stuff. Feel
free to contribute. Related post
here. |
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Flytandem
TransX
Tutorials
(by Rob McKenzie)
http://www.flytandem.com
Series of tutorials specific to learning transx.
Intended to be done by simultaneously running both the tutorial in a
browser window and Orbiter in Window mode. (Orbiter Forum Post
here).
Also: some scn available. |
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Space
Navigation Tutorials & Tools by rdenny (Robert Denny)
http://solo.dc3.com/orbiter
PDF Tutorials with Orbiter scenario (.scn),
Rendezvous MFD, updated Chris Knestrick's Attitude MFD... |
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Enjo's
translations site by Szymon Ender
http://orbiter.rox.pl
Translation of Orbiter Manual, Orbital Operations
Manual etc, to Polish Language.With
picture gallery. |
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SHIMZ's
Orbiter Addons
http://akaa.free.fr/orbiter/
Home of the nice DeltaGlider Ex, Packed
DragonFly, MFD Maps, Real Exhaust, Jupiter Level8, Green Mars, Mars
Labels, More annoying buzzer for DGIII... |
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a
place for my stuff by agent036 (Jason Benson)
http://agent036.tripod.com
Author of Orbiter Mir
& Outward Explorer, Lander, Farscape1, X-71, Workpod, The
cobalt... |
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Brian's
Pages: Orbiter Space Sim (Brian Burger)
http://www.warbard.ca/orbiter.html
Percival Lowell, Shipyard One, Hammerhead
Station, SR-100, Mars and Saturn scn, Fleet Building, Addon Help... |
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She'Da'Lier's
Addons Factory by Pawel Stiasny
http://strony.aster.pl/she_da_lier/
DG transport, dock adapter, Attachment Management
MFD, Firefox Orbiter related search plugins, Addon Installer...
With forum
(Polish section available). |
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Orbiter
Romanian Community by Stefan Dan (off?)
http://www.orbiter.go.ro
Kliper RSV, Dream Quest 5
Ion Manned Mars Mission, Airbus380... |
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ORBITER.NET.RU
by Sergei
http://orbiter.net.ru/
About 15 years ago in Soviet Union, the Tecnics-Youth
magazin published "Real truth, a sci-fi story by Mihajl
Pukhov. The story, accompanied by a program for the pocket
calculator A3-34, allowed the readers to repeat the actions lived by
the hero
Now it is time to use Orbiter. |
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Click
here
for English translation. |
See also: Russian Forum
here
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NASA-VIRTUAL
http://www.nasa-virtual.com
Site about all NASA related ORBITER addons. Home
of NCPP (NASSP Complete Panel Project short - see Apollo links). |
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Deep
Space Network - Orbiter's Unmanned Resource
by missleman01 (John Graves)
http://www.freewebs.com/deepspace
Simulating great space probes (and missions) from
the 1970's to present day! Cool! |
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Dave's
personal web server (David Rowbotham)
(offline?)
http://orbiter.bounceme.net
Russian space hardware
(CCCP addons), SaturnV, ATLAS, author of glMesh (Orbiter Mesh
Viewer, see pic), etc... |
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Nerull's
Orbiter Mods by John Bowles (offline?)
http://nerull.com
CVE-Lite implementation of
Energia / Buran. |
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Kodiak
Space Center by Adam Mitchel
http://kodiakspace.blogspot.com
Old site: http://kodiakspace.fateback.com/
Phobos-Grunt, Rockot-KS, Angara, Canadian
Microsat, Venera-D, Russian JIMO, Walrus LV + Mystic, Wasp/CanX,
SPACEHAB Apex, T/space CXV, see for yourself ;)... |
Don't miss all the cool station modules available at
Mustard's
site!
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Project
Alpha by Andrew Farnaby
http://www.f-a-d.co.uk
Home of the fantastic ISS model included in
Orbiter by default ;-)
(Also Project Ulysses for Orbiter and FS
Projects) |
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AIBS
Station Builder Project by David Henderson
http://www.aibs.org.uk/orbiter
Build INVICTA Space Station with ArianeV,
Dragonfly, Soyuz, Proton-GPDS and the Shuttle; BurnTimeCalc MFD, the
way tsoo crazxy *burp* Orbiter MiniBar, MultiORB, cool projects ;-) |
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Aprom
Designs by artlav
http://artlav.land.ru
Visosad - MeshLand(3D terrain + collision
detection), Hius interplanetary vessel, Orbiter Interface
Modification and additional autopilots... |
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1º
Vuelo Tripulado a Marte by Salvadortega
http://www.llegadamarte.da.ru
Software Orbitan; author of several addons.
(pages in Spanish available) |
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Orbiter
Control Panel-A by Janis (offline?)
http://home.delfi.lv/svinki/ocpa/
Building hardware control
panel capable to perform the most important spaceship functions.
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Ho, and look at these Orbiter Forum related
threads:
"Orbiter
Control Panel A" project - finished!
The
General Purpose Cockpit
External
Panel Interface
Orbiter
in dual-head
(Multiplayer: see also - menu above
- Utilities / DOCS >> The Orbs)
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All
The Latest Versions...
http://www.freewebs.com/hispaorbiter/
Original concept by Hispaorbiter, further
developed/upgraded by simcosmos (ATLAS site). Meanwhile, both Hispa
and I decided to open personal sites and our virtual projects. Parts
of ATLAS still live / are updated in the present SIMCOSMOS... others
may return one day... |
Click next to see the report (text, pics, video...) from one
(fictious) STS mission (STSv3.6):
From
Earth to Earth In Two Hours!
Pictures (some animated), small reentry video, reentry table,
links...
The great Auto FCS (by Mike Norman) is
here!
Use it for automated STS (other spacecraft) reentry
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Let's
roll! - Orbiter Addon by Slat (Damir Gulesich)
http://www.gule.it/Orbiter
Addons for Space Shuttle: Launch Complex 39,
Edwards Air Force Base, ET+SRBs (included in 0rbiter 031217),
Crawler... |
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Francisdrakes
Orbiter Page
http://www.geocities.com/francisdrakex
Shuttle Atlantis Landing Tutorial, Approaid,
Atlantis Mod15a, SLI Study, Programmer's Wishlist...
(author of Lockheed-Martins CEV addon) |
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STS
MEDS Project by Valerio Oss
http://www.pixelcartoon.it/orbiter/meds
FREEWARE add-on for Orbiter Space Simulator that
reproduces all the Multifunction Electronic Display System of the
Space Shuttle (almost all...). |
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HighResolution
Textures for SpaceSim Orbiter by MacFen
http://people.freenet.de/macfen/Orbiter
High resolution textures for Atlantis and Project
Alpha ISS (Orbiter's default shuttle and station). I highly
recommend these! ;-) |
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STS
Intrepid by ganwinnard (George Winnard)
http://www.stsintrepid.freeuk.com
What started as a project to build a radio
controlled balsa wood model of space shuttle (project on hold) has
been transformed into two new projects: a very nice shuttle 3D model
and also a paper model version ;-) |
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My
Orbiter Page by Pieter (offline?)
http://www.start.be/orbiter
You will find here some
tips about flying the shuttle, links to add-ons, and pictures. |
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NASSP
- Nasas Apollo Space Simulation Project
by Joe_Bar (Jean-Luc)
http://spacebarjoe.free.fr
SaturnV and Saturn IB, documentation pdfs, source
codes...
Click here
for NASSP v5.0 (offline?) |
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P64
and RABIDDOGS (no longer maintained)
Wish you the best,
Manabu-san
http://www.geocities.jp/rabiddogs_p64
Home of the fantastic Apollo Full Panel Project,
Gemini Full Panel Project, with many good panel pictures (Soyuz,
Apollo, Gemini). You also find the Apollo Costum Panel (based on
Movieman's enhancement: NASSP 4.21) |
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Apollo
Lunar Landing Mission Tutorial
by JDKBPH (John Dunn)
http://www.jdkbph.com/ALMT
Want to learn how to fly Apollo to the Moon? |
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Fly
me to the Moon by DarthVader (Jean-Louis Villecroze)
http://djvader.blogspot.com
"Personal chronicle on learning Astronomy
and Spaceflight Mechanics through the use of Orbiter". Site
started being about Apollo but now is more about Soyuz, hehehe. |
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Jtiberius
Orbiter Fan Site by Kein Titel (offline?)
http://people.freenet.de/jtiberius
Copernicus Crater, Apollo 11, 12, 15, 17 landing
sites, Mars cydonia-mensae, ISS modules... |
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SimNASA
www.simnasa.org
Simulated National Aeronautics And Space
Administation |
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WASA
- Weltall Service Agentur
http://wasa.dreifaltige-allianz.de
German
Space Agency within the German Micronation Community using Orbiter
for simulating. |
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Click
here
for English translation. |
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Orbiter
Solar Nations
http://www.vidmar.org/drupal
"The idea is: we make up our own nations,
factions whatever and build addons centered around them and share
them.". More info and links
here
and
here. |
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Grupo
SPAORBITER
http://www.spaorbiter.com
Where to start? This Spanish
site/group has many features: forum,
gallery, news, addons download links, complete Orbiter packages
via Emule/Edonkey links... |
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Orbiter
Español by Quijote
http://orbiterhispano.blogspot.com
Spanish blog:
discussion around organizing a more centralized Spanish site /
collaboration between the existing sites. |
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Agence
Spatiale Virtuelle Francophone (closed)
http://agencevirtuelle.dansteph.com
Nice concept from French
Orbinauts: you login, reserve / download a mission, accomplish it
and upload the resulting scenario for others to continue from that
point. Related post
here. Closure post here.
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Air
Orbiter (offline)
www.airorbiter.com
Virtual Space Agency / Airline simulating
passenger and cargo flights.
Related Orbiter Forum Posts
here,
here
and here. |
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Deep
Space Exploration (offline?)
http://dse.firekraqurmodels.com
"The Purpose behind
DSE is to establish a common ground for exploration, and adventure
throughout the solar system." |
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UASO
www.vuaso.org
United Aeronautics and Space flight Organization |
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VUSSP
(VSA closed, site online)
www.vussp.com
Virtual United States
Space Program |
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Department
of Orbital Research and Aerospace
http://www.freewebs.com/moserdn/
Inspired by virtual space commissions, such as
simNASA, DORA sets out to illustrate a positive Orbiter experience
by running historical based missions. |
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U.S.
Aeronautical and Aviation Association (offline?)
http://usaa.mattsitservice.com
Dedicated to the
development of craft, technologies, and accomplishing tasks through
many different means. The organization engages in Aeronautical
Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Simulations, and developing
technologies. View Org. Specs for more info. |
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Space4
Corporation
http://space4.homeip.net/space4/
"Non-for-profit, dynamic, space focused
educational simulation service organization (...) teaching
membership about science, technology and about Canada as a world
leader in the field of space engineering." |
Some Multimedia related posts (Orbiter Forum) and links:
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SIMCOSMOS
by António Maia
http://simcosmos.planetaclix.pt
You are on my site about
Orbiter (+other sims / games / multimedia / stuff)... Constant
WIP... B5Starfury, ALIENS, NASA VSE... Orbiter Community and
Dev. Links... Forum
with Portuguese section.
Flickr Pics here. |
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Videos
Hosted by SimFAN
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Orbiter
Video by Mustard (Videos OFFline)
http://mustard27.free.fr
Good Videos here!
(Nice orbiter2004 Video (3)! and... very touching, the 21 Heroes.)
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Johnny
HeadStar by John Frye (aka auditek747)
http://www.freewebs.com/headstar
"I've made a little vid from a scenario of
mine, It was fun, and I'll probably make some more." |
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Kaushik's
Orbiter Page (Kaushik Ghose)
http://www.glue.umd.edu/~kghose/Orbiter/
Tribute page to favourite add-ons."First-step
I-wanna-fly-now Trans-X tutorial. It uses a show-by-example method"
- Tutorial not online? |
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Planet
Earth (offline)
http://planetearth.moonport.org
An Orbiter Video
Experience (If you are the author of this page please send email so
I can give the right credits and... are the videos available?) |
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PCAVIATION
by ZOPHOD (offline?)
http://www.pcaviation.net
Place for Flight Simulator
fans. Orbiter section with pictures and video. |
Links with images that I found here and there
(Orbiter Forum?)...
(if you are the author of any of these pages and do not want the
links here please email me)
Home Site:
http://simcosmos.planetaclix.pt
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