General Question Possible to simulate orbiter 'real-time'?

[mnowaczewski]

My question is: Is it possible to program an addon for orbiter so that it can be run as a host on a linux box? Basically, it would be a forever going simulation. You can have multiple users connected and scenarios keep simulating even when users are offline. So if you launch a satelite, this object remains in simulation forever, as long as the server is going...

Is something like this possible?

 

[TSPenguin]

Short answer: No

Long answer: Maybe soon. The current development version of orbiter seperates the physics core from the graphics client. It might be easier to run this via emulation on linux.
The network part is not possible at the moment because there is no such addon available. OMP has it's own forum here, you might want to look in there for information, but be aware, that OMP has a different design than what you have in mind is not suitable for your idea (per se).
So even the long answer is no...