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<div class='bluenote' style='font-size:16pt; text-align:center;'>Welcome to OrbiterWiki</div>
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<div style='border: 1px solid #000080; background-color: #c0e0ff; text-align: center; padding: 10px; font-size: 16pt; margin-top:10px'>Welcome to OrbiterWiki</div>
  
This wiki is concerned with material relating to '''[http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~martins/orbit/orbit.html Orbiter]''', a space-flight simulator. We are collecting information and documentation about its use and how to write your own missions and addons. In addition there is technical data about Physics and spaceflight in general. If you still can't find the answer, try the [http://www.orbitersim.com/Forum/default.aspx Orbiter Forums]. With over a thousand registered users there is a good chance someone can help.
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You know '''[http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~martins/orbit/orbit.html Orbiter]'''? It's patently cool. On this Wiki we are collecting information, documentation, plug-ins and other stuff relating to Orbiter:
  
==Pilot Section==
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* [[Orbiter tutorials]] - your first flight, how to fly to Mars, etc
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* [[Orbiter manual]] - detailed information about Orbiter for pilots
* [[wikipedia:Orbiter_%28sim%29|About Orbiter]] - An overview
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* [[Celestial mechanics]] - what a pilot must know in order to understand how a ship behaves in space
* [http://www.orbitersim.com/Forum/default.aspx?g=posts&t=3064 New to Orbiter?]  Link to the Orbiter Forum with suggestions of further reading
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* [[Celestial coordinate system]] - explains how to describe a point in space
* [[FAQ]] - Frequently Asked Questions
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* [[:Category:Glossary]] - special terms explained
* [[Companies using orbiter]] - a portal for professional use of orbiter
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* [[List of plug-ins]] - useful software that other people have written for Orbiter
* [[Too quickly asked questions]] - unanswered questions from Orbiter chatrooms
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* [[Orbiter tutorials]] - your first flight, how to fly to Mars, etc.
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* [[List of Acronyms and Abbreviations]] - All those mysterious TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms)
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* [[:Category:Addons|List of Addons]] - custom ships, instruments, bases, orbital stations and even planets
 
* [[wikipedia:Celestial_mechanics|Celestial mechanics]] - what a pilot must know in order to understand how a ship behaves in space
 
* [http://www.aovi93.dsl.pipex.com/orbiter_videos.htm Orbiter Videos] - A site with tutorials and some examples
 
* [[:Category:Glossary|Glossary]] - List of terms
 
  
==Developer Section==
 
 
Information and documentation for developers:
 
Information and documentation for developers:
  
* [[Addon Tutorials]] - various tutorials on making your own addons
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* [[SDK documentation]] - how to write your own modules, instruments and spaceships
* [[SDK documentation]] - how to create your own modules, instruments and spaceships
 
* [[:Category:Tools|Tools]] - a list of tools which may be useful to addon developers
 
* [[References]] - Blueprints, schematics, etc.
 
* [[addon etiquette]] - some guidelines
 
* [[:Category:Libraries|Libraries]] - developers' libraries
 
  
==Contributor Section==
 
* '''Before you start editing, please read the [[OrbiterWiki:Rules|OrbiterWiki Rules]]'''.
 
* [[OrbiterWiki:Village pump|Village pump]] for general discussion about this wiki and the guidelines.
 
* General [[OrbiterWiki:Guidelines|Guidelines]] of this wiki.
 
* [[OrbiterWiki:Capitalization|Guidelines for Page Capitalization]].
 
* If you don't know how to edit, you can read [[metawikipedia:Help:Editing|Help]] (this link goes to another website). Please practice editing in the [[OrbiterWiki:Sandbox|Sandbox]].
 
  
Important for contributers: Discussion thread for Guidelines, etc on m6 Forum
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[http://www.orbitersim.com/Forum/default.aspx?g=posts&t=2040 Orbiter Wiki Thread on m6 Forum]
 
  
<div class='ylwnote'>Please note that at the moment OrbiterWiki links are entirely case-sensitive, including the first letter! This means that [[OrbiterWiki:Sandbox]] is not the same as [[OrbiterWiki:sandbox]]. Sorry about the inconvenience, but that was necessary for the API functions. We are working on changing this to be entirely case-insensitive.</div>
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