Welcome to OpenRocket’s documentation!

OpenRocket is a free, fully featured model rocket simulator that allows you to design and simulate your rockets before building and flying them.

Note

This documentation is under active development.

Introduction

• Overview
• Features
• Contribute
• Frequently Asked Questions

Setup

• Installation Instructions
• Getting Started
• Preferences

User Guide

• Basic Rocket Design
• Basic Flight Simulation
• Advanced Rocket Design
• Advanced Flight Simulation
• Overrides and Surface Finish
• Rocket Analysis
• Custom Expressions
• Simulation Extensions
• Thrust Curves

Developer Guide

• Development Overview
• Development Environment Setup
• Using OpenRocket Core in External Applications
• OpenRocket Architecture
• Codebase Walkthrough
• Icons
• Development Guidelines
• Testing and Debugging
• Motor Database Updates (Security)
• Motor Database Schema (SQLite)
• File Specification
• API Documentation
• Command Line Arguments
• Building and Releasing
• Contributing to Translations
• Contributing to the Documentation
• Contributing to the Website
• FAQ and Troubleshooting

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page