brahe/

lib.rs

/*!
# Brahe
Brahe is a modern satellite dynamics library for research and engineering
applications. It is designed to be easy-to-learn, high-performance, and quick-to-deploy.
The north-star of the development is enabling users to solve meaningful problems
and answer questions quickly, easily, and correctly.

The key features of the library are:

- **Intuitive API**: API designed to be easily composable, making it easy to
  solve complex problems correctly by building on core functionality.
- **Easy-to-Learn**: Designed to be easy to use and learn. The objective is
  to provide clear documentation and visibility into what the software is doing
  so that users don't need to spend time reverse engineering internal routines
  and more time solving their own problems.
- **High-Performance**: Brahe provides a Python 3.6+ wrapper that is
  auto-generated from a core Rust library. This provides fast core implementation,
  while allowing users to take advantage of Python's rich scientific ecosystem
  if they so choose.
- **Answer Questions Quickly**: Brahe is designed to make it easy to code up
  solutions to meaningful problems. High-fidelity, high-performance APIs are not
  the end-objective, but helping users solve their problems.

Brahe gets its name from the combination of Rust and astrodynamics (Rust +
astrodynamics = Brahe). The library specifically focuses on satellite astrodynamics
and space mission analysis. While the underlying concepts have been studied and known since
Kepler wrote down his three laws, there are few modern software
libraries that make these concepts easily accessible. While extremely well tested,
other astrodynamics and mission analysis software can have an extremely steep
learning curve, making it difficult to quickly run simple analysis that is known
to be correct.

Because of this, students, researchers, and engineers frequently end up
reimplementing common astrodynamics and mission analysis tools with unfortunately
frequent regularity. While  reimplementation of common code can be a good learning
mechanisms, in most cases it is both error-prone and costs time better spent
on other endeavours. This project seeks to providing an easy-to-use,
well-tested library, to enable everyone to more easily, and quickly
perform astrodynamics and space mission analysis without sacrificing performance
or correctness. The software built in Rust for performance with bindings to
Python for ease of use.

The implementation approach is opinionated, the objective is to provide an
easy-to-use and accurate astrodynamics library to enable users to quickly
and correctly solve most common problem types. it is not practical to try to
implement _every_ aerodynamics model and function utilized in practice or historically.
Since Brahe is open source, if a specific function is not present, or a different
implementation is required, users can modify the code to address their specific
use case. This means that Brahe, while we want to continue expanding the
capabilities of the module over time, the immediate goal is to provide a well-tested,
flexible, composable API to quickly address modern problems in astrodynamics.

One example of this in practice is that the built-in Earth reference frame transformation
utilizes the IAU 2006/2000A precession-nutation model, CIO-based transformation.
Even through there are multiple ways to construct this transformation, Brahe
only implements one. Another example, is that the geodetic and geocentric
transformations use the latest NIMA technical report definitions for Earth's radius and flatness.
If a desired model isn't implemented users are free to extend the software to
address and functionality or modeling gaps that exist to address their specific application.

## Documentation

You can find the package documentation [here](https://duncaneddy.github.io/brahe).
This documentation is meant to provide a human-friendly walk through of the
software and package. Brahe is currently in the early stages of development so
the documentation will likely not be complete. Sections marked **[WIP]**
will have some software functionality implemented but not be considered
documented.

The most complete API reference guide will always be the Rust crate API
reference, found on [crates.io](https://docs.rs/brahe/). This is always up-to-date with the latest release
since it is autogenerated at build time during the release process.

## Software Usage and License

The Brahe package is licensed and distributed under an [MIT License](https://github.com/duncaneddy/brahe/blob/main/LICENSE) to
encourage adoption and to make it easy to integrate with other tools.

The only thing asked is that if you do use the package in your work, or
appreciate the project, either send a message or star the project. Knowing
that the project is being actively used is a large motivator for continued
development.

## Support and Acknowledgement

Brahe is currently being developed primarily for my own enjoyment and
because I find having these tools helpful in professional and hobby work. I plan to
continue developing it for the time being regardless of greater adoption as time permitting.

That being said, it's incredibly encouraging and useful to know if the
software is being adopted or found useful in wider practice. If you're
using Brahe for school, research, or a commercial endeavour, I'd
love to know about it! Tweet me [@duncaneddy](https://twitter.com/DuncanEddy) or
email me at duncan.eddy (at) gmail.com.
 */

// This enables the use of the coverage attribute which turns
// off erroneous coverage miss reporting in test blocks
#![cfg_attr(coverage_nightly, feature(coverage_attribute))]

// Re-export commonly used types
pub use access::*;
pub use attitude::*;
pub use constants::*;
pub use coordinates::*;
pub use datasets::*;
pub use earth_models::*;
pub use eop::*;
pub use frames::*;
pub use integrators::*;
pub use math::*;
pub use orbit_dynamics::*;
pub use orbits::*;
pub use propagators::*;
pub use relative_motion::*;
pub use space_weather::*;
pub use time::conversions::*;
pub use time::*;
pub use trajectories::*;

// Module declarations
pub mod access;
// Note: celestrak and spacetrack are not glob-re-exported since they use
// client patterns that should be accessed via brahe::celestrak::* or brahe::spacetrack::*
pub mod attitude;
pub mod celestrak;
pub mod constants;
pub mod coordinates;
pub mod datasets;
pub mod earth_models;
pub mod eop;
pub mod events;
pub mod frames;
pub mod integrators;
pub mod math;
pub mod orbit_dynamics;
pub mod orbits;
pub mod propagators;
pub mod relative_motion;
pub mod space_weather;
pub mod spacetrack;
pub mod time;
pub mod trajectories;
pub mod types;
pub mod utils;
// Centralized traits module - re-exports all public traits
pub mod traits;

#[cfg(feature = "python")]
mod pymodule;