Oh, hi! Project creator here.

I am very happy that you folks are showing interest but I am also terrified because this thing is definitely not ready for primetime, yet. The discerning astrodynamicist and/or rustacean will surely find things which are less than optimal or plain wrong.

I am also preparing for a trip so I won't be able to monitor this thread closely but I'll try to answer question wherever I can.

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https://github.com/lox-space/lox/blob/main/crates/lox-space/...

The example code is helpful for seeing how it'd be used (might be cool to link to it from the README while the docs are still todo)

It is kind of sad to be living where it's too early to have your own space craft. It is sci-fi at this point anyway to consider life like that, but that would be cool to write software for like car CAN bus. But I also get it's not a toy/matter of life and death. I guess a video game or simulator is the closest thing. Standardized APIs for thrusters or something that would be cool.

Tie into visual star navigation

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A textbook covering the physics of spaceflight, "Astronautics" by Ulrich Walter, was made available for free download by the publisher during the COVID lockdown.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-74373-8

My hope that this plus Kerbal Space Program would transform my brain proved that I tend to ignore my limitations.

Great book, though.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-74373-8

I work on simulations in a satellite company and have been looking for a way to move out of c++. Thank you very much, will explore this. Show 1 reply

There is another crate in Rust named Nyx [1] that sounds very similar - an astrodynamics library with a Python wrapper. Anyone knows how they compare?

[1] https://github.com/nyx-space/nyx

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With a name like 'lox' you'd think the banner image would be Pisces.

Cool project though, I will definitely be playing around with this.

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