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If you mean "spherical Earth" versus "ellipsoid Earth" versus who-knows-what-else, that's not going to make any difference for this question. I'm modeling the Earth as an ellipsoid, and so the data I'm getting from Orbiter gets converted to that model anyway. I should have been clearer; I...

I'm writing some code to interface with Orbiter to get times of astronomical events (e.g, conjunctions, sunrise/sunset, etc). I've got two questions: First, what is the difference, if any, between propagation methods used when oapiSimSetMJD() (see p. 102 of API Reference Manual) is called...

OK, thanks. When I ran Orbiter from the new directory (copied intact) it automatically recognized the new GPU and said so in the Launchpad, so no problems there. As for the two config files, I took a look at them; first time I had ever bothered to. The information they contain appears to be...

I've just built a new PC and want to move Orbiter (100830) from my old PC to it. I could reinstall from scratch, but in addition to installing various add-ons that would also mean reconstructing some custom bases and such. It would be much easier to just copy the entire Orbiter folder from the...