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I thought I would post this and try to help spread it around. This is an excellent video modeled after the Sagan Series, but with Neil deGrasse Tyson as the narrator. It is probably one of the most impacting videos I have ever seen. I feel like this should be mandatory viewing for all human beings.

Recently my XR 1, 2, and 5 have all ceased to work properly. I am sure that they all worked normally not too long ago. When I start up any scenario with an XR series spacecraft, Orbiter CTDs. If I add a XR spacecraft from the scenario editor, however, it spawns it with no problem, but when I...

I'm not sure exactly how Orbiter renders texture for planets, but it seems like it renders just one huge texture for each planet. While this looks good from a couple hundred kilometers away, the texture looks stretched and the resolution seems to be a kilometer or more on the ground. Microsoft...

I was wondering if anybody has thus far made a configuration program for the XR2, sort of like the DGIV config program. If no one has, I know a couple programming languages and could make a config program for it, which I'm sure would help a lot of people. I could have a program for modifying...

Hey guys, I thought of this idea for you to post your lucky Orbiter moments after I just had a very lucky and unplanned one. My lucky moment was when I was planning a TransX sling of Jupiter to Saturn. I opened Celestia and found a relatively good sling alignment that I thought was gonna need...

I have recently been attempting to land on Phobos, which I was able to do in the DGIV scenario. I wanted to do one better, so I decided to go from Mars to Phobos myself. My problem is that after I sync orbits and align the planes, Phobos' orbit keeps moving, making it impossible to keep a...

Why, in Orbiter, does the light during sunsets sort of bleed across the entire atmosphere until the sun is completely down? It does that instead of a thin line in the last couple minutes like in this real-world picture: Are there any add-ons to correct this? I think it would be cooler.

How can I configure payloads for the XR2 such as satellites like Carina? I know how to use the payload editor but it only lets you choose the default ones from the list (LOX tanks, etc). I tried to configure the scenario manually, but it does not seem to jettison properly.

I am making my first addon for Orbiter after playing it for a long while. I was able to set everything and get the model into the simulator. I just have one problem that I can't find a solution for. I can't find a way to set the direction of the thrust. I can set which way the visual thrust is...