Changelog

Versions here correspond to those in PyPI and conda-forge.

Development Version

The major functionalities under development are:

• Introduction of Body Fixed Frame

• Development of a more generic AltAz class.

Latest Version

Version 0.1.2 (29 May 2021)

• Added occultations and shadows

• Introduced True-of-Date and J2000 Equatorial frames

• Initialised the DiscreteTimeData interpolator

• Migrate Documentation to MyST Markdown

Previous Versions

Version 0.1.1 (14 Apr 2021)

• Added Keplerian Orbital Elements

• Added new tutorials on Numerical Orbit Propagation

Version 0.1 (05 Apr 2021)

• Added TleStorage and TleTimeSeries classes to load and filter multiple TLEs

• Improved units handling of TLEs

• Moved analyses to a dedicated project called SatMAD Applications, available at Github (for Jupyter notebooks) and in plain document format.

Version 0.0.7 (24 Mar 2021)

• Added GroundLocation to model the Ground Locations (e.g. groundstations) on any planet.

• Initialised non-Earth-bound propagation

• Modified the dependencies to point to the new pyERFA library

Version 0.0.6 (10 Nov 2020)

• Deleted the TEME Coordinate System in favour of the native Astropy version.

• Added user defined inertial coordinate systems (CelestialBodyCRS)

Version 0.0.5 (27 Jul 2020)

• Introduced basic numerical propagation (see Numerical Propagators)

• Added operators (union, intersect etc.) functionality to TimeIntervalList

Version 0.0.4 (11 Jul 2020)

• First experimental release.

Prior to 0.0.4

All versions before 0.04 have been wildly experimental.