jamestiotio/openrocket

OpenRocket simulation software

OpenRocket 🚀

OpenRocket is a free, fully featured model rocket simulator that allows you to design and simulate your rockets before actually building and flying them.

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🛠️ Design, Visualize, and Analyze

1. Design your rockets using a rich selection of built-in components:

2. Visualize your masterpiece in 3D:

3. Plot & Analyze your simulation results for precision and improvements:

🌟 Features

• Six-degree-of-freedom flight simulation
• Automatic design optimization
• Realtime simulated altitude, velocity, and acceleration display
• Staging and clustering support
• Cross-platform (Java-based)

... plus many more

📖 Read more on the OpenRocket Wiki.

💾 Installers

Find the OpenRocket installers here

📝 Release Notes

Release notes are available on each release's page or on our website.

🚀 Getting started

The easiest way to get started is to open one of our in-program example designs:

Dive into the essentials: adjust component dimensions, plot a simulation, swap out motors, ... Explore the impact of your changes and, most importantly, enjoy the process! 😊

💪 Contribute

Help us soar higher! Whether it's implementing features, writing documentation, or creating design examples, every contribution matters. Interested? Check out how to get involved and the practicalities of contributing.

✨ Contributors

• Sampo Niskanen - Original developer
• Doug Pedrick - RockSim designs, printing
• Kevin Ruland - Android version
• Bill Kuker - 3D visualization
• Richard Graham - Geodetic computations
• Jason Blood - Freeform fin set import
• Boris du Reau - Internationalization
• Daniel Williams - Pod support, maintainer
• Joe Pfeiffer - Maintainer
• Billy Olsen - Maintainer
• Sibo Van Gool - RASAero file format, 3D OBJ export, dark theme, maintainer
• Neil Weinstock - Tester, icons, forum support
• H. Craig Miller - Tester

You can view the full list of contributors here.

🌍Translators

• Tripoli France
• Tripoli Spain
• Stefan Lobas / ERIG
• Mauro Biasutti
• Sky Dart Team / Ruslan V. Uss
• Vladimir Beran
• Polish Rocketry Society / Łukasz & Alex Kazanski
• Sibo Van Gool
• Mohamed Amin Elkebsi

📜 License

OpenRocket is proudly open-source under the GNU GPL license. Feel free to use, study, and extend.

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