X-Space is an aerospace simulator based on X-Plane flight simulator. It is available as a plugin, and as a dedicated server (for calculating spaceflight).

Status

This project is no longer active. All the source code is re-licensed under BSD license and provided for anybody who wants additional references when writing X-Plane plugins.

The project is superceded by EVDS (External Vessel Dynamics Simulator) and FoxWorks Aerospace Simulator for X-Plane.

Features

• Provides information about partial concentrations and densities of atmospheric gases
• Clouds visible from orbit (procedural clouds based on realtime weather)
• Different visual effects based on fuel used in the rocket engine
• Detailed engine performance simulation (variation in thrust with external pressure)
• Support for multiple stages/multi-part vessels
• Visual effects from heating (glow due to heat radiation)
• Earth gravitational field simulation (non-spherical gravity based on EGM96 model)
• Support for extra fuel tanks (or additional weights)
• Orbital flight simulation (uses custom physics engine to override X-Plane physics at high altitudes)
• Detailed atmospheric model (including exosphere, high-altitude atmospheric drag)
• Atmospheric scattering visible from orbit (for X-Plane 9, X-Plane 10 without HDR)
• Support for any amount of custom engines (reaction control engines, additional rocket engines)
• Advanced networking support (multiplayer)
• Fuselage drag simulation (drag from capsules, hypersonic vessels)
• Heating simulation (covers a wide range of external pressures and velocities)
• Earth magnetic field simulation (fairly precise magnetic field data from WMM)
• Material simulation (simulates properties of various materials the spacecraft is constructed from)
• Extra camera views (relative to vessel reference point, vessel center of mass)
• Vertical launch pads
• Simulates planet rotation
• Publishes a large amount of variables (datarefs) accessible by other plugins

Installing

Please remove the old version of X-Space if it's present.

Just copy contents of folders in this archive into corresponding folders in X-Plane 9 (or X-Plane 10) folder. The folders must be merged together (not replaced!).

To uninstall it just delete the following folders:

• \X-Plane 9\Resources\plugins\x-space
• \X-Plane 9\Aircraft\XSAG

Compiling

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 projects included
• Linux makefiles included
• MacOS makefiles included

All dependencies are available in zip files under dependencies folder (for each supported OS).

Authorship

• X-Space (C) 2009-2012 by Black Phoenix
• XGDC OS (C) 2008-2012 by Black Phoenix
• Simple OGL Image Library by Jonathan Dummer
• Scriptable Avionics Simulation Library by A.A.Babichev
• Lua 5.1.4 (C) 1994-2011 PUC-Rio
• WMM model implementation by Manoj C Nair and Adam Woods
• NRLMSISE-00 model implementation by Dominik Brodowski
• RV-550 Ares-1 with Orion capsule model by Curt Boyll
• SV-200 UHLSS model by Jeff Scott