AstroForge 0.3.0

A Python library of astrodynamics tools

AstroForge

A Python library of astrodynamics tools.

AstroForge is meant to be used for satellite state propagation and the computation of observations from ground-based or space-based sensors. Precise orbit fitting requires pristine knowledge of the observer’s site location in inertial coordinates, which in turn requires methodical handling of coordinate systems and the conversions between them. The goal of AstroForge is to make all of this easy.

Installation

From this repository's top-level directory, run the command

pip install .

Usage

For details on how to use the various features of AstroForge, we recommend following the Jupyter notebooks in the examples/ directory.

You can also read the project's documentation here.

Citation

Please use this DOI number reference, published on Zenodo, when citing the software:

Disclaimer

DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A. Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited.

Research was sponsored by the United States Air Force Research Laboratory and the United States Air Force Artificial Intelligence Accelerator and was accomplished under Cooperative Agreement Number FA8750-19-2-1000. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, eitherexpressed or implied, of the United States Air Force or the U.S. Government. The U.S.Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Government purposes notwithstanding any copyright notation herein.

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