Orekit 11.2 released

The Orekit team is pleased to announce the release of Orekit version 11.2.
This is a minor version, including both new features and bug fixes.
The main changes are:

  • the Hatch Filter for GNSS measurements smoothing
  • the parsing and writing of CCSDS CDM in both KVN and XML formats
  • the parsing of SOLFSMY and DTC data for JB2008 atmospheric model
  • the parsing of EOP in Sinex files
  • new measurements for orbit determination: TDOA, bi-static range and range rate
  • support for ITRF 2020 version
  • the computation of mean orbital parameters in the sense of Eckstein-Hechler or Brouwer-Lyddane models.
  • the J2-relativistic clock offset for GNSS measurements
  • an update of the CCSDS ODM v3 format
  • an improvement of the frame transformation

This release also include new tutorials for:

  • Sequential-batch least squares orbit determination
  • TLE-based orbit determination
  • Gradient computation

For complete release notes please see:
https://www.orekit.org/site-orekit-11.2/changes-report.html

The maven artifacts are available in maven central.
The source and binaries can be retrieved from the forge releases page:
https://gitlab.orekit.org/orekit/orekit/-/releases