Orbiter
Today we leave the planet Earth and take off to where no man has gone before. Well, actually, several have gone there before, but it cost them (and us) several billion dollars to go there. But with this particular Warped site, it is not only free to go, it is free to come back.
The name of the site is Orbiter Space Flight Simulator. I came across it while I was looking for sites for our sister website Download of the Day (http://www.worldvillage.com/downloads/download.html) and I came across this interesting program, and it’s companion website. What sets this apart from other space games is that it is not just a shoot’em up game. This relies on real world physics and calculations. This is not your mother’s everyday game. Even cooler is the entire sub culture that has sprung up around it, in terms of add-ons and other off shots. For example, you can load the Apollo Mission Simulator for Orbiter, and fly to the Moon. There is a Deep Space Probe page where you can launch your own out of this world (and out of this solar system) unmanned spacecraft. What I really liked was the Go Play In Space link that allows those of us that are mathematically challenged to still get it together enough to fly this beast.
This Warp-o-Meter gives this site an 8.0. It is not an off-the-wall site, but it has enough followers to give it some attention. Oh, did I mention… the majority of programs and add-ons are all free! A very good price indeed.
http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/orbit.html
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