Conveners
Open Source Tools and Smart Computing #1
- Jean François GOESTER
- Ruaraidh Mackenzie (ESOC)
Description
Tools using any open source license; use and perspectives; core repositories and code re-use for astrodynamics computations; free use of astrodynamics code; code repositories; astrodynamics applications and astrodynamics code running on smartphones and tablets;
For numerous years, CNES Flight Dynamics teams have made freely available some astrodynamics tools and libraries as MSLIB library. Nevertheless, these tools, essentially coded in Fortran language needed different versions of compilation depending on used platforms (Solaris, Linux, Windows …) which didn’t ease its installation and therefore limit their dissemination. Some years ago, CNES...
Space objects catalog maintenance demands an accurate and fast orbit determination (OD) process to cope with the ever increasing number of observed space objects. The development of new methods, that answer the two previous problems, becomes essential.
Presented as an alternative to numerical and analytical methods, the Draper Semi-analytical Satellite Theory (DSST) is an orbit propagator...
JSatOrb is an ISAE-Supaero's software tool dedicated to orbital calculation and designed for pedagogical purposes, with professional level features outputs.
It has been initiated to find a soft which would fill the gap between local teachers developed tools and professional tools, exploiting state of the arts
algorithms concerning space mechanics calculus. Even if current provided open source...
TUDAT (TU Delft Astrodynamics Toolbox) is an open-source, general astrodynamics toolbox, with a focus on numerical state propagation, that has been under development by staff and students of the Astrodynamics and Space Missions (AS) section of Delft University of Technology (TUD). Since early 2015, the software has been hosted as a [github repository][1] and is freely available under the BSD-2...
While modern trajectory calculation and optimization tools are very effective, sometimes it is still useful to manually find an orbit for e.g. a necessary initial guess, or simply in order to understand the size and shape of the orbit.
A simple Visual Orbit Design (VOD) tool was created that allows changing orbit parameters such as apogee, perigee, delta-V given at a point, etc. while...
