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Orbit-Propogator

Earth centric orbit propagation tool. Built from scratch in python.

Functionality includes:

  • tracking sattelite location over time
  • plotting sattelite ground tracks and path through 3D space
  • tracking the rotation of the Earth and location of the Sun
  • predicting sattelite eclipses
  • converting between orbital parameters and state vectors
  • converting between ECI, ECEF, and cartesian reference frames
  • converting between mean, eccentric, and true anomolies
  • calculating other orbit-related quantities

grid_earth.jpg source: http://www.genlogic.com/free_map_server.html

Example: Example of terminal commands and groundtrack plot.

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