TLE Series thoughts?

[MaximeJ]

Hi @petrus.hyvonen,

@petrus.hyvonen

While working on this, it seems like AggregatedBoundedPropagator is quite close to this (although no smoothing between propagators), if BoundedPropagators are created from each TLE through the ephemeris interface?

Yes, there’s also the AggregatedPVCoordinatesProvider introduced by Joseph Reed a year ago in 11.3 that would take either the propagators themselves or their generated ephemeris.

@petrus.hyvonen

Would there be an general interest to have smoothing in the AggregatedBoundedPropagator somehow (like with a x second double-propagator request with weighting between them)? Not sure about the details but this smoothing may be applicable to solve issues also in other orbit description?

I think it’s a great idea!
@Vincent recently greatly improved interpolation features in Orekit and introduced the notion of OrbitBlender in the process.
I don’t think it is directly usable, but maybe we could introduce a PropagatorBlender or a PVCoordinatesProviderBlender?

Maxime