Hi, everyone!
I have used orekit to develop various Flight Dynamics tools such as orbit estimation tool. I recently came across the WalkerConstellation package in orekit. This led me to develop a script in orekit to determine contact between target satellite and the satellites which are a part of constellation. To make it a bit more applicable for real mission scenarios, I have used TLEs from GlobalStar constellation as a part of my script.
I have now uploaded the code to GitHub and wanted to share it here in case it is useful to others or if anyone has suggestions for improvement.
This is a personal learning/project repository, not an official Orekit extension.
I would especially appreciate feedback on:
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code structure and readability
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whether I may have missed anything important in the constellation/contact setup
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Orekit best practices for this kind of implementation
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