Announced the opening of the source code for the Orbiter Space Flight Simulator project, which offers a realistic space flight simulator that complies with the laws of Newtonian mechanics. The motive for opening the code is the desire to provide the community with the opportunity to continue the development of the project after the author has been unable to develop for several years for personal reasons. The project code is written in C++ with Lua scripts and published under the MIT license. In its current form, only the Windows platform is supported, and compilation requires Microsoft Visual Studio. The published sources correspond to the 2016 Edition with additional fixes.
The program offers models of both historical and modern spacecraft, as well as hypothetically possible and fantastic spaceships. The key difference between Orbiter and computer games is that the project does not offer the passage of any missions, but provides an opportunity to simulate a real flight, covering the execution of such tasks as calculating the entry into orbit, docking with other vehicles and planning the flight path to other planets. The simulation uses a fairly detailed model of the solar system.
Source: opennet.ru