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I tried a Voyager-style mission to fly by the outer planets. Very happy that the orbital mechanics in the current build are pretty robust and the real world mission plan mostly worked. I had to adjust the SolSytem.xml file to simulate the 1977 planetary arrangement. Did not use the porkchop...

The Solar System is not in any real configuration at the start of the game because all planets are positioned at perihelion. The SolSystem.xml has the "MeanAnomalyAtEpoch" parameter, but it is not used by the game (I posted a bug report about that...

SolSystem.xml contains a MeanAnomalyAtEpoch parameter for each celestial body. However, this parameter does not affect the initial position of planets. Regardless of its value, all planets start at anomaly=0 (i.e. each in its perihelion). How to observe: check orbital information for all...