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poliastro 0.17.0

Name:
poliastro

Website:
https://www.poliastro.space/

Author:
Juan Luis Cano Rodríguez

Version:
0.17.0

poliastro is an open source (MIT) pure Python library
for interactive Astrodynamics and Orbital Mechanics,
with a focus on ease of use, speed, and quick visualization.
It provides a simple and intuitive API,
and handles physical quantities with units.
Some features include
orbit propagation, solution of the Lambert's problem,
conversion between position and velocity vectors and classical orbital elements
and orbit plotting, among others.
It focuses on interplanetary applications,
but can also be used to analyze artificial satellites in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO).
from poliastro.examples import molniya

molniya.plot()

Documentation

Complete documentation, including a user guide and an API reference, can
be read on the wonderful Read the Docs.
https://docs.poliastro.space/
Examples

In the examples directory you can find several Jupyter notebooks with
specific applications of poliastro. You can launch a cloud Jupyter
server using binder to edit the notebooks
without installing anything. Try it out!
https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/poliastro/poliastro/0.17.x?labpath=index.ipynb
Requirements
poliastro requires the following Python packages:

NumPy, for basic numerical routines
Astropy, for physical units and time handling
numba, for accelerating the code
jplephem, for the planetary ephemerides using SPICE kernels
matplotlib, for orbit plotting
plotly, for 2D and 3D interactive orbit plotting
SciPy, for root finding and numerical propagation

poliastro is supported on Linux, macOS and Windows on Python 3.8 to 3.10.

Installation
The easiest and fastest way to get the package up and running is to
install poliastro using conda:
$ conda install poliastro --channel conda-forge

Please check out the documentation for alternative installation
methods.
Problems and suggestions
If for any reason you get an unexpected error message or an incorrect
result, or you want to let the developers know about your use case,
please open a new issue in the issue
tracker and we will try
to answer promptly.
Contributing
poliastro is a community project, hence all contributions are more than
welcome! For more information, head to
CONTRIBUTING.md.
Support

Release announcements and general discussion take place on our Mailing
List .
For further clarifications and discussions, feel free to join Poliastro
Chat Room.
Citing
If you use poliastro on your project, please drop me a
line.
You can also use the DOI to cite it in your publications. This is the
latest one:

And this is an example citation format:
Juan Luis Cano Rodríguez et al.. (2015). poliastro: poliastro 0.4.0. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.17462

License

poliastro is released under the MIT license, hence allowing commercial
use of the library. Please refer to the COPYING file.
Credits
Contributors
This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute!

Backers
Thank you to all our backers! Become a backer.

Sponsors
Support us by becoming a sponsor. Your logo will show up here with a link to your website.
Become a sponsor.

FAQ
What's up with the name?
poliastro comes from Polimi, which is the shortened name of the
Politecnico di Milano, the Italian university where I was studying while
writing this software. It's my tiny tribute to a place I came to love.
Grazie mille!
Is poliastro validated?
Yes! poliastro is a community project that strives to be easy to use,
while at the same time producing correct results
that are validated
against other commonly used Astrodynamics software
such as GMAT and Orekit.
Can I suggest new features for poliastro?
Sure, we encourage you to open an issue
so we can discuss future feature additions!
What's the future of the project?
poliastro is actively maintained and receiving an influx of new
contributors thanks to the generous sponsorship of Google and the
European Space Agency. The best way to get an idea of the roadmap is to
see the Milestones
of the project.