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Check out Go Play In Space, an old but gold tutorial Chapter 6: Reentry

I know others have provided answers, but I'll think this is a great introduction to some of the stuff without extremely complicated math. I remember it was on the old orbitersim page and it helped me a lot. Basics of Spaceflight Or a PDF version if you prefer Basics of Spaceflight PDF

I'm busy right now, but I'll do it when I have the time!

And guess who won 1st place in Physics for the Science Fair? Thank you to the community!

Greetings orbiters! I presented my Orbital Rendezvous Experiment for my school's science fair that I had been working on for the past few months. It got me 1st place in Physics at my regional science fair! Thank you to those that helped!

I must admit, I used to use Orbiter as a flight sim when FSX didn't work. Flightgear never was playable for me for some reason. Another fine addition to the hangar!

I remember there used to be a mod that added AIRAC Waypoints but it doesn't work on 2016. I would love to have an airplane autopilot for Orbiter!

I'm glad that you're developing an Airliner for Orbiter! One of my favourite things to do in Orbiter was to roleplay as a captain and fly pax to Wideawake, then fly pax and cargo to the Moon SpacePort!.

Hmm interesting. Does it move automatically because it detects an intersection with the best closest times of arrivals?

Greetings, Orbiters! I would love to have a scale model of the XR2 Ravenstar in my room, as it is beautiful and inspiring. Does anyone know how I can get an STL File (with permission from Mr. Beachy, of course)? I found this thread but I don't know much...

It's turning into weird dates instead of what I want. Should I just keep it as seconds?

Do you know how I can convert the seconds to MET (d:h:m:s) ? Thanks for all the help so far!

Hello! How did you get into Orbiter?

Hi, I have my data. How do I import it into excel? I don't want to sit around entering each point manually. Do I save the file? # Log started for Chaser # ____TIME _______ALT _AIRSPEED 41.73 199.2255 7498.48 42.75 199.2229 7498.47 43.76 199.2204 7498.46 44.78...

Wow what software is that? Do I have to manually map the data points into desmos?

Ahh, so you are saying that I will have data points 10 seconds apart rather than 1 seconds apart, but that' won't affect the integrity of my data. So I'll be fine if I use desmos to plot it, except the points would be further apart from each other when I engage timewarp? # Log started for...

Ok so @Thunder Chicken suggested I use the built in flight data monitor, which allows me to log altitude and velocity over time, which is awesome. Problem is that it does not account for timewarp, so when I time warp the graph's slope changes a lot.

Thanks for the response! I understand the general gist of what you are saying, but I am in highschool and I don't understand how to use the code from the scenario. Edit I took a look at the orbiter manual and it makes much more sense. Still, I am confused how to use the polar coordinate numbers...

Greetings Orbiters! I want to collect data from Orbitersim and extrapolate it into a graph that I can put on my poster board for my science fair. Does anyone know how I can make a plot of distance/altitude difference between a vessel and the ISS in orbit over time? It would be really helpful...

Can't wait to see what this becomes! I really love seeing these new vessels!