Orbital Elements Calculator
Repo: Github
What is it?
I chose to write this orbital elements calculator as a result of a self motivated journey to learn more about spaceflight. I used this exercise to cement an intuitive meaning of the orbital elements through the building of an interactive tool.
Learnings
- perifocal coordinate system
- Keplerian orbital elements
- computation of elements from position and velocity vectors
- computation of position and velocity vectors from elements
Tools and Technologies Used
- WebGL
- Javascript