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.
🛠️ Design, Visualize, and Analyze
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Design your rockets using a rich selection of built-in components:
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Visualize your masterpiece in 3D:
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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
- Export to other simulation programs (RockSim, RASAero II)
- Export component(s) to OBJ file for 3D printing
- Cross-platform (Java-based)
... plus many more
📖 Read more on our website.
💾 Installers
You can find the OpenRocket installers here.
Release notes are available on each release's page or on our website.
📖 Documentation
You can find our documentation on ReadTheDocs.
🚀 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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