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Orbiter is a realistic 3D real-time space flight simulator program. Official site with free download. DownloadDownload mirror 1 Europe - Textures - Gallery - Links - .

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You can use realistic simulators like: http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/ (it's free and open-source: https://github.com/orbitersim/orbiter ) so it means that now the main problem is... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
Orbiter is more of a hardcore spacesim than a "game" in traditional sense, but also qualify. Source: almost 3 years ago
Orbiter does it, but I doubt the solution they use (whatever it is) would work with the game engine Nova uses. Reentry does it too. I guess it depends on how the game has been coded. Probably difficult to implement if it wasn't designed... Source: about 3 years ago
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