Orbiter 2024 Release

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Dear Orbiter Community,

Orbiter 2024 has been released.
As is tradition, today is Tuesday; it just happens to be the last day of 2024.

Download link: https://cdn.openorbiter.space/orbiter-releases/Orbiter-2024.zip

Almost 25 years ago, the first version of Orbiter, briefly known as “Orbit” was introduced to the world in early 2000 on Dr. Martin Schweiger's website; later that year on October 27th, the first version of Orbiter released. While it was a humble beginning from what we know and love today, many of the features that we would recognize as “Orbiter” have been there from the beginning. Over the next 21 years, @martins released 15 versions of Orbiter including incremental patches, and dozens of beta releases, as the sole developer, but with consistent collaboration and feedback from the wonderful Orbiter community.

In July of 2021, Martin released the Orbiter source code to the Orbiter community on GitHub. Since then, a growing team of Orbiter community members have worked on: several new features, many bug-fixes, and overhauling the documentation. For a full list of changes and bug-fixes please see §2 of the Orbiter User’s Manual.

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to or otherwise helped with this project, and a special thank you to Dr. Martin Schweiger for, creating Orbiter, maintaining it all these years, and releasing it to the community. We look forward to carrying on the same spirit of Orbiter development in this new era of OpenOrbiter.

Happy Orbiting.
 
Magnificent! Glorious!
My eternal gratitude to the brave men who continue Martin Schweiger's legacy.
Long live Libre Software and Orbiter!
May the Probe bless you all!
:probe::hailprobe:
Some of us are even women! 😂
 
A wonderful surprise indeed! Thanks for the tremendous effort you all put in to this amazing sim. It's a real joy to experiment with!
 
Amazing! Congratulations for the release guys. Orbiter really is an incredible piece of software.

Here's to another 25 years!
 
Not to brag or anything but I tested my bases and my space station, and what a relief to see they are working fine in 2024! That means a small variety of destinations from the get go. That, and I don't need to update it for this new version 😂
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Also, I think the small visual updates make my bases look even better! 🙏
 
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