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Welcome to OrbiterWiki

This wiki is concerned with material relating to Orbiter, a space-flight simulator. On this wiki we are collecting information, documentation, plug-ins and other stuff:

Pilot Section

• New to Orbiter? a good place to start.
• FAQ
• Orbiter tutorials - your first flight, how to fly to Mars, etc.
• List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
• List of Addons - custom ships, instruments, bases, orbital stations and even planets
• Celestial mechanics (article on Wikipedia) - what a pilot must know in order to understand how a ship behaves in space

Developer Section

Information and documentation for developers:

• Addon Tutorials - various tutorials
• SDK documentation - how to write your own modules, instruments and spaceships
• Tools - a list of tools which may be useful to addon developers
• References - Blueprints, schematics, etc.

Contributor section

• Before you start editing, please read the OrbiterWiki Rules.
• Guidelines for Page Capitalization
• If you don't know how to edit, you can read Help (this link goes to another website). Please practice editing in the Sandbox.

Important for contributers: Discussion thread for Guidelines, etc on m6 Forum Orbiter Wiki Thread on m6 Forum

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. In a very short while this will be changed to entirely case-insensitive - once it's fully working on our local test machine.