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Re: Ballistic launch trajectory code

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• Subject: [mg110442] Re: Ballistic launch trajectory code
• From: Christopher Arthur <aarthur at tx.rr.com>
• Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:25:41 -0400 (EDT)

did you look at the astronomy package?

Dan a =E9crit :
> 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
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