Space simulator

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"Space flight simulator" redirects here. For space flight simulators intended for entertainment, see Space flight simulator game.
For the 1994 Microsoft game, see Microsoft Space Simulator.

A space simulator is a system that tries to replicate or simulate outer space and/or the experience of space flight in a spacecraft as closely and realistically as possible. This includes full-size cockpit replicas mounted on hydraulic rams, controlled by state of the art computer technology or elaborate watertanks for simulation of weightlessness. Space flight simulators are used almost solely by the aerospace industry and the military for cosmonaut/astronaut training, disaster simulation and spacecraft design.

Well-known devices used by scientists to study the physics and environment of outer space include the Large Space Simulator at the European Space Research and Technology Centre,[1] and The Space Simulator at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.[2]

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  1. ^ "New Device Allows Safe And Fast Access To Large Space Simulator" (HTML). Science Daily. March 27, 2005. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050325162237.htm. Retrieved 2007-11-23. 
  2. ^ "The Space Simulator –– Modeling The Universe On A Budget" (HTML). Science Daily. June 23, 2004. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/06/040623082018.htm. Retrieved 2007-11-23. 
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