boinor.twobody.propagation.pimienta¶
module related to propagation of an orbit using the method of Pimienta-Peñalver and John L. Crassidis in the twobody sub-package
Classes¶
Kepler solver for elliptic orbits based on a 15th |
Module Contents¶
- class boinor.twobody.propagation.pimienta.PimientaPropagator¶
Kepler solver for elliptic orbits based on a 15th order polynomial with accuracies around 10e-5 for elliptic case and 10e-13 in the hyperbolic regime.
Notes
This algorithm was developed by Pimienta-Peñalver and John L. Crassidis in their paper Accurate Kepler Equation solver without trascendental function evaluations. Original paper is on Buffalo’s UBIR repository: http://hdl.handle.net/10477/50522
- kind¶
- propagate(state, tof)¶
actual propagation function for Pimienta propagator