Introduction
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+ OpenRocket is an free, fully featured model + rocket simulator that allows you to design and simulate your + rockets before actually building and flying them.
+OpenRocket features a full six-degree-of-freedom simulation, + realistic wind modeling, a multitude of different components + including free-form fins and canted fins, clustering and + staging. Read more about its features + and see screenshots. +
+OpenRocket is an Open Source project licensed under the + GNU GPL. This means that the + software is free to use for whatever purposes, and the source + code is also available for studying and extending. +
+OpenRocket needs help to become even better. Implementing + features, writing documentation and creating example designs are + just a few ways of helping. If you are interested in helping + make OpenRocket the best rocket simulator out there, please + Get involved! +
+ +News
+10.3.2010: Version 1.0.0 is + released!
+This release includes several hundred new thrustcurves from + thrustcurve.org and some + bug fixes. It is also a stable milestone, after which development + on larger features will be started in a 1.1 branch. Look out + for it! :-)
+17.2.2010: Version 0.9.6 is + released!
+This release updates the aerodynamic calculation methods to be + more in line with the Barrowman method and enhances the simulation + time step selection, in addition to fixing numerous bugs.
+28.11.2009: Version 0.9.5 is + released!
+This release fixes a serious bug in 0.9.4 that + prevented adding a tube coupler and centering ring to the same + body tube, in addition to a few smaller additions. Users of + 0.9.4 should upgrade immediately!
+24.11.2009: Version 0.9.4 is + released!
+This version adds support for through-the-wall fin tabs, + attaching components to coupler tubes, material editing, automatic + update checking, in addition to fixing numerous bugs.
+1.9.2009: Version 0.9.3 is + released!
+This version includes lots of bug fixes and new features including + data exporting, showing flight events in plots, example rocket designs, + splitting clustered inner tubes and automated bug reporting.
+13.7.2009: Version 0.9.2 is + released!
+This version includes bug fixes for imperial unit + conversions and UI improvements for motor selection. + All users of imperial units should upgrade!
+9.6.2009: The + Master's thesis for which OpenRocket + was written for is now available!
+At the same time version 0.9.1 was + released. This release fixes various + file handling bugs and adds small UI enhancements.
+24.5.2009: First version 0.9.0 + released!
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