Ballistic launch trajectory code
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- Subject: [mg110420] Ballistic launch trajectory code
- From: Dan <dflatin at rcn.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:04:32 -0400 (EDT)
I was wondering if anyone could point me toward a Mathematica based code or a package, commercial or otherwise, that can compute a ballistic launch trajectory. I am envisioning something that provides position, velocity, and acceleration state vectors as a function of time in an earth centered inertial frame. Ideally, this would make use of a standard gravitational model such as the one used in SGP4. I have ported SGP4 to Mathematica, and I would like to add this function to my tool suite. Thanks in advance, Dan Flatin