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 > > >