Parallel Orbital Simulation Environment

Motivation

The main goal of POSE is to provide a means to understand how space debris impacts operation of spacecraft across lengthy periods of time. Ancillary goals include education and inspiration of orbit simulation to the general public through public facing interfaces into POSE.

Configuration and Usage

POSE is configured via a single JSON configuration file which is crafted via hand and generation programs provided under this repo in util.

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Building

llvm must be installed on the build system in order to build POSE. On Windows, llvm may be installed via choco using the following command: choco install llvm

NASA C-SPICE must also be installed on the host machine following the instructions provided here. The environment variable CSPICE_DIR must be set to the top-level directory of the SPICE directory in-order to pull in required SPICE libs.

On install of llvm (if needed) pose may be built using cargo such as the following: cargo build --release

Basic Sanity Checking

Under data/, iss.json is used for basic sanity checks on simulation correctness. ISS trajectory data is gathered from https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/trajectory_data.cfm provided by NASA.