Welcome to OrbitPy’s documentation!

Welcome! This is the documentation for OrbitPy 0.2, last updated 10 Feb, 2022.

The recommended way to get started, is to first read through the User Guide (install and run the example). The Run section details the two ways in which the OrbitPy package can be used to setup simulations.

Contents

• User Guide
  • Package Overview
  • Installation
  • Run
• API Reference
  • orbit.constellation — Constellation Module
  • orbit.propagator — Propagator Module
  • orbit.grid — Grid Module
  • orbitpy.coveragecalculator — Coverage Calculator
  • orbit.contactfinder — Contact Finder Module
  • orbit.eclipsefinder — Eclipse Finder Module
  • orbitpy.datametricscalculator — Data Metrics Calculator Module
  • orbit.mission — Mission Module
  • orbit.sensorpixelprojection — Sensor Pixel Projection
  • orbitpy.util — Util Module
• Development
  • Tests
  • Validation
  • Software
• Examples
  • Simple Mission 1
  • Planet SkySat
  • SAR Constellation
  • Landsat-8, SeaHawk-1, (hypothetical) SeaHawk-2
• Miscellaneous

Questions?

Please contact Vinay (vravindra@baeri.org, vinay.ravindra@nasa.gov)

Credits and Acknowledgments

This work has been funded by grants from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO) through the Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) Program.

OrbitPy uses:

• GMAT2020a gmatutil source (https://sourceforge.net/p/gmat/git/ci/GMAT-R2020a/tree/src/gmatutil/)

• Pybind11 (https://pybind11.readthedocs.io/en/stable/basics.html)

• JSON for Modern C++ (https://github.com/nlohmann/json)

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page