This will allow students to design spaceships in physics lessons and in circlesTASS, April 14.
The developers of the Russian space simulator "Orbit" have made the program code of the first versions of the simulator publicly available, thanks to this, schoolchildren in circles, in physics lessons will be able to design a spacecraft, simulate its landing on various planets and performing missions in near-Earth orbit. This was reported to TASS on Friday in the press service of the Circle Movement of the National Technological Initiative (NTI).
"As Alexey Fedoseev, one of the developers of Orbita, president of the Association of Participants of Technological Circles, leader of the projects of the NTI Circle Movement, said, the idea of the simulator was that every student could try to design and launch a spacecraft, perform a real mission on a distant planet with its help. <...> The first version of Orbita, created with the support of the companies "Education of the Future", "Sputnix" and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, it was actively used at the summer schools of the All-Russian program "Elevator to the Future", for classes with schoolchildren and teachers, tournaments on modeling spacecraft were held there," the press service reported.
Later, a second version of the simulator was developed, in which the spacecraft flew only around the Earth, but performed more complex missions: I calculated the flight, the temperature allowing the device not to overheat, photographed the Earth's surface or transmitted communication between ground points of communication. Using this version, the NTI Olympiad (now NTO) was held for the first time in the 2015/2016 academic year. Both versions of "Orbit" are now available for download and use by everyone.
"Today, an industrial simulator from Education of the Future is used in technological education, but the first versions of Orbita are of great importance for starting engineering education, so we published their code under a free license. We hope that our simulator will be interesting to teachers and mentors, students and schoolchildren. The simulator can be used as an entry point for schoolchildren into space engineering, it can be used in circles and in physics lessons, it embodies many physical models: ballistics, heat transfer, radio, electrics, mechanics, and so on. Since Orbita now has open source code, anyone can use it and make suggestions for its improvement, thanks to which the simulator will continue to develop," said Alexey Fedoseev, who was quoted in the press service.
About the NTI Circle Movement
The NTI Circle Movement is an all-Russian community of technology enthusiasts, which covers more than half a million schoolchildren, students and mentors in all regions of the country. Its goal is to form the next generation of entrepreneurs, engineers, scientists, managers capable of conceiving and implementing projects, creating new solutions and technology companies aimed at the development of Russia and the whole world.
Among the initiatives of the movement are the National Technological Olympiad, project schools and hackathons "Practices of the Future", the All-Russian action "Lesson of NTO", the digital talent support platform and the contest of digital portfolios of applicants "Talent of NTO", the All-Russian competition of circles, the All-Russian competition of Open Source projects of schoolchildren and students and others. In 2022, the NTI Circle Movement became one of the founders of the Russian Movement of Children and Youth "Movement of the First", created on the initiative of Russian President Vladimir Putin.