samspy 0.0.2

Simple Aerospace ModelS in Python

Version: 0.0.2

SamsPy is a collection of simple aerospace models in Python. (Anyway, that’s the plan.)

It has been developed on Linux (Ubuntu 12.04, now 16.04) and Mac OS X (Mavericks, now Sierra) using Python 3 and the corresponding YAML and Nose packages.

More details are given in the file docs/overview.rst. An initial example is given in docs/examples/lvbasic.rst. This example deals with simple modeling of a prototype launch vehicle. (Note: these were written for SamsPy v0.0.1.)

A major goal of version 0.0.2 has been to make SamsPy installable by pip, the standard Python package installation program. As a result, there has been significant re-arrangement of the Python source files between v0.0.1 and v0.0.2.

The cmds directory includes a couple of executable commands. lvbasic.py executes the simple launch vehicle modeling described above. sto.py computes performance characteristics for utilizing a super-synchronous transfer orbit to eventually reach geostationery orbit.

Notes for version 0.0.2

lvbasic is now installed by pip as an executable command. When so installed, and example YAML files are copied into the current directory, typical execution of the command looks something like

lvbasic vehicle.yaml propellants.yaml

The example files can be found under site-packages/samspy/share or on Github at: https://github.com/kwan0xfff/SamsPy. (Early versions have the files under share; later ones under samspy/share.)