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Space Mission Design - A SPICE-enhanced continuous thrust interplanetary mission propagator and vizualizer
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Read JPL Ephemeris files #129

Open ChristopherRabotin opened 6 years ago

ChristopherRabotin commented 6 years ago

Using the external Python command is outrageously slow, even after everything is loaded into memory. It's also not very precise since there is no interpolation.

This issue shall add the direct loading of the JPL ephemerides with Earth Moon barycenter computation for interpolation.