Open Source CubeSat Workshop 2021

Session

Workshop

Dec 10, 2021, 2:00 PM

36. Open Source Mission Operations Systems

12/10/21, 2:00 PM

discussion

Most space agencies and industry use custom or self-developed software applications to control their satellite missions. A prominent example is SCOS-2000, a multi-mission satellite operations system that is used for almost all ESA satellites. Most of those solutions are monolithic, large, complex, and use plain old software technologies, and they are closed-source.

Nowadays, however, a...

26. Practical mission analysis with Python

12/10/21, 2:00 PM

tutorial

In this tutorial, we will go over basic topics about orbit analysis in a practical way, aiming to address some common misconceptions. In particular, we will cover

• How to visualize osculating orbits and ephemeris,
• What a TLE is and is not,
• How to fetch TLE and ephemeris data from open sources,
• How to propagate osculating orbits and TLEs,
• How to design transfer orbits and...