Crate satkit

“SatKit” : Satellite Tool SatKit

Crate Features:

• Timescale transformations (UTC, GPS, UT1, TBD, TT, …)
• High-precision coordinate transforms between:
  • International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF)
  • Geocentric Celestial Reference Frame (GCRF) using IAU-2006 reduction
  • True-Equinox Mean Equator (TEME) frame used in SGP4 propagation of TLEs
  • Celestial Intermediate Reference Frame (CIRF)
  • Terrestrial Intermediate Reference Frame (TIRF)
  • Terrestrial Geodetic frame (latitude, longitude)
• Two-Line Element Set (TLE) processing, and propagation with SGP4
• Keplerian orbit propagation
• JPL planetary ephemerides
• High-order gravity models
• High-precision, high-speed numerical satellite orbit propagation with high-order (9/8) efficient Runga-Kutta solvers, ability to solve for state transition matrix for covariance propagation, and inclusion following forces:
  • High-order Earth gravity with multiple models
  • Solar gravity
  • Lunar gravity
  • Dra, with NRL MISE-00 density model and inclusion of space weather data
  • Radiation pressure

Language Bindings

• Standalone Rust library available on on https://crates.io
• Python bindings availble on PyPi

Re-exports

• pub use astrotime::AstroTime;
• pub use astrotime::Scale as TimeScale;
• pub use itrfcoord::ITRFCoord;
• pub use tle::TLE;
• pub use utils::SKErr;
• pub use utils::SKResult;

Modules

• astrotime
  Time and time bases (UTC, TAI, GPS, TT, etc…)
• consts
  Universal constants
• earth_orientation_params
  Earth orientation parameters (polar motion, delta-UT1, lenth of day)
• earthgravity
  Zonal gravity model for Earth gravity
• frametransform
  Conversion between coordinate frames
• itrfcoord
  Internation Terrestrial Reference Frame coordinates & transformations to Geodetic, East-North-Up, North-East-Down
• jplephem
  Solar system body ephemerides, as published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
• lpephem
  Low-precision ephemeris for sun and moon
• nrlmsise
  NRL-MISE00 Density model
• orbitprop
  High-Precision Orbit Propagation via Runga-Kutta 9(8) Integration
• sgp4
  SGP-4 Orbit Propagator
• spaceweather
  Space Weather
• tle
  Two-line Element Set
• types
• utils
  Utility functions

Macros

• skerror

Enums

• Duration
  Enum representing durations of times, allowing for representation via common measures of duration (years, days, hours, minutes, seconds)
• SolarSystem
  Solar system bodies