orbiter Flight Simulators

Open-source repository of Orbiter Space Flight Simulator

What orbiter does

Open-source repository of Orbiter Space Flight Simulator It is a free, open-source project hosted at orbitersim/orbiter and released under the MIT licence.

Download and install

1. Get the files. Use Download releases above if the maintainers publish binaries, otherwise grab the source ZIP or git clone https://github.com/orbitersim/orbiter.git.
2. Read the README. Build and runtime requirements differ per platform — the repo README is the authoritative guide.
3. Check the licence. MIT terms apply to redistribution and commercial use.
4. Join the community. Issues, discussions and pull requests live in the repository — that is where bugs get fixed.

Project snapshot

• Repositoryorbitersim/orbiter
• Stars1,999
• Forks283
• LanguageC++
• LicenceMIT
• Last update2026-10-14

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