beyond 0.6.2

Flight Dynamic Library

This library was started to better understand how Flight Dynamics works. It has no intent of efficiency nor performance at the moment, and the goal is mainly to develop a simple API for space observations.

The sources of this library can be found at github and are under the MIT license.

Installation

Beyond requires Python 3.5+, numpy and sgp4. To install the library and its dependencies use pip

pip install beyond

Documentation

• Last release (stable)

• Dev (latest)

Usage

This library is used as basis for the Space-Command utility.

Commons usages for this library are:

• Predicting of satellite visibility

• Computing satellite ground track

• Computing planets visibility

References

A lot of the formulas and flight dynamic algorithm are based on Vallado’s Fundamentals of Astrodynamic and Applications 4th ed.