ChristopherRabotin / smd

Space Mission Design - A SPICE-enhanced continuous thrust interplanetary mission propagator and vizualizer
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Propagate in Lagrange Equinoctial #45

Open ChristopherRabotin opened 7 years ago

ChristopherRabotin commented 7 years ago

Maybe even transform the Orbit struct to be based on these. They support all kinds of orbits, and make sense when reading the values. Lagrange VOP allow for arbitrary perturbations which is desired in #36. In addition, there are many paper which explain how to handle these for J_n and the continuous thrusting should work out of the box.