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Orbital Kata

Learn to fly one ship through burns, rendezvous and docking.

Orbital Kata flight interface with an orbital map, craft state and training objective.View full size ↗
In the project

The orbital map sits beside the current training objective and flight state. This is a simulator capture, not an illustration of a spacecraft.

About this image

Repository product capture · Capture date not recorded; reviewed 7 September 2026
Revision: Image 041deb1ff209

Earn the rendezvous.

The starting point

Orbital motion is unintuitive. A training task needs to connect an action at the controls with a visible change in the craft and its path.

What I built

An orbital flight game built around understanding what a burn changes. Docking and rendezvous become learnable actions with consequences, while communication delay belongs to the world. The current docking slice is part of a larger expedition still being developed.