aerospaceresearch / orbitdeterminator

determination of satellite orbits and more
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Faster State Vector processing (SPG4/Skyfield vs ideal Keppler vs...) #253

Open hornig opened 2 years ago

hornig commented 2 years ago

the SGP4 Skyfield libs are really cool. Also they have more realistic models. but they seem a bit slow by a magnitude.

So adding a faster state vector processing would be great! :)

kerel-fs commented 2 years ago

Related: @astrojuanlu published the "SPG4 implementations benchmark report" (full text) which describes an “Evaluation of available[open source] Python libraries for multi-satellite propagation” as part of a sub-activity of the OpenSatCom activity.

In this report a comparison of multiple SGP4 implementations is performed, specifically thoses: Screenshot from 2021-12-03 23-53-14