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• About Orbiter - an overview
• Orbiter tutorials - your first flight, how to fly to Mars, etc.
• Orbiter add-ons - ships, instruments, bases, orbital stations and even planets
• Orbiter cockpits - guides for interfacing hardware to Orbiter
• FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
• Astrodynamics - how a ship behaves in space
• List of Acronyms and Abbreviations - all those mysterious TLAs
• Glossary - list of terms
• Community links - Orbiter all around the world

• Add-on tutorials - various tutorials on making your own add-ons
• SDK documentation - Orbiter API documented
• Tools - a list of tools which may be useful to add-on developers
• References - blueprints, schematics, etc.
• Add-on etiquette - some guidelines
• Libraries - developers' libraries

CVE-lite (abridged Common Vessel Extensions) is a programming library to aid developers of add-on vessels for Orbiter. It extends the native Orbiter VESSEL class with additional functionality for multiple payloads, enhanced mesh handling or scenario-file based multistage support. It implements the Generic Payload Description System (GPDS) to allow the end user to express via simple lines in the scenario file any payload and, if using another CVEL vessel, any additional upper stages. (More...)

LEO-lunar transfer tutorial. "... Congratulations, you're on your way to the Moon. So, a couple days later... You've arrived! The Moon is getting pretty big in the viewscreen. Really big. Too big in fact. Oh dear, we're about to impact the lunar surface at some 17,000 miles per hour. Now what?" (More...)

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