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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...

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...