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Please note that in order to allow these components to communicate, vMC requires that you have a TCP/IP network connection configured on your PC, even if you are only ever going to use vMC on the same PC as Orbiter. This connection can be a local loopback adapter, but presumably if you downloaded Orbiter and vMC, then you have an Internet connection anyway this will serve the purpose.
 
Please note that in order to allow these components to communicate, vMC requires that you have a TCP/IP network connection configured on your PC, even if you are only ever going to use vMC on the same PC as Orbiter. This connection can be a local loopback adapter, but presumably if you downloaded Orbiter and vMC, then you have an Internet connection anyway this will serve the purpose.
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vMC is now inactive however there is a new project similar to it but using orb:connect and .net framework to allow multiple people to be in a virtual mission control interface. it is called orbiter mission control.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 15:26, 30 November 2022

Project home: vMC Home Page
Author: Synchronous Technologies Ltd.
Current version: Unknown
Compatibility: Unknown


Virtual Mission Control or vMC is a network interface by Synchronous Technologies Ltd.

Virtual Mission Control (vMC) is a software application designed to support remote telemetry and flight control operations using Martin Schweiger’s Orbiter space flight simulation software. A remote telemetry viewing application (vMC/Workstation) is provided, but other programs using the vMC core components can also be created using the vMC SDK Manual.

The vMC/Workstation program supports the creation of new display pages using either a built-in page editor, or by use of compiled plug-ins (ActiveX custom controls). vMC consists of four software components that need to be installed on your PC:

  • vMC/Workstation - the front end of vMC, where you can view telemetry in a wide variety of different formats, and send commands to a spacecraft in Orbiter.
  • vMC/Server - the communications control element of vMC, that handles all network traffic between components (and allows you to use vMC over a LAN or the Internet, if you wish).
  • Orbiter.dll - an ActiveX in-process server component that translates vMC messages into something that Orbiter can understand.
  • Orbipc.dll - an Orbiter plug-in module that links Orbiter.dll to Orbiter itself.

Please note that in order to allow these components to communicate, vMC requires that you have a TCP/IP network connection configured on your PC, even if you are only ever going to use vMC on the same PC as Orbiter. This connection can be a local loopback adapter, but presumably if you downloaded Orbiter and vMC, then you have an Internet connection anyway this will serve the purpose.

vMC is now inactive however there is a new project similar to it but using orb:connect and .net framework to allow multiple people to be in a virtual mission control interface. it is called orbiter mission control.

See also[edit]

Multi-player -- an overview of multi-player add-ons for Orbiter