Roadmap¶

This page documents the current feature development roadmap for RAstro.

Constants
- Mathematics
- Time
- Planetary Constants
Earth Orientation Parameters
- Data Model Structure
- Fetching updated parameters
- Data retrieval
- Management / Versioning with packaging
- Customized of handling of out-of-range EOP requests
Time Management (Epoch)
- Epoch Class
  - Initialization
    - String
    - Caldate
    - MJD
    - GPS Elapsed Seconds
    - GPS Week / Seconds
  - Fundamental Operations
- Epoch Range Iterator
Reference Frames
- Precession/Nutation Model
- Earth Rotation Model
- Polar Motion
Orbits
- Orbital Period
- Mean Motion
- Periapsis/Apoapsis Velocity
- Perigee/Apogee Velocity
- Periapsis/Apoapsis Distance
- Anomaly True <-> Eccentric
- Anomaly Eccentric <-> Mean
- Anomaly True <-> Mean
- Sun-synchronous Inclination
- Osculating <-> Mean Transformation
Transformations
- State ECI <-> ECEF (IAU 2010)
- Rotation ECI <-> ECEF (IAU 2010)
- State OSC <-> CART
- State OSC <-> ECEF
Coordinate Transform
- Cart <-> Geocentric
- Cart <-> Geodetic
- Geocentric <-> Topocentric (ENU)
- Geocentric <-> Topocentric (SEZ)
- Geodetic <-> Topocentric (ENU)
- Geodetic <-> Topocentric (SEZ)
- ENU <-> AzEl
- SEZ <-> AzEl
Relative Transformations
- ECI <-> RTN
- RTN <-> ROE
- ECI <-> ROE
TLE
- TLE Object
- SGP4 Propagation
Force Modeling
- Gravity
  - Point Gravity
  - Spherical Harmonic
  - Third-Body Gravity
- SRP
  - Direct Sun
  - Earth Albedo
- Eclipse
- Drag Model
  - Harris Priester
  - NRLMSISE00
- Relativistic Corrections
- Tides
  - Solid Earth
  - Ocean
Numerical Integrators
- Arbitrary RK integrator
  - RK4
  - RK8
- Variable Step
Orbit Propagators
- Keplerian
- Full Force
- Event Detection
- State propagation (multithreaded Jacobian evaluation)
- Arbitrary Python Force/Function Inclusion
- Arbitrary State Inclusion / Addition
Access
- Location Data Model
- Access Computation - Constraint Definition
- Tessellation (Area Access)
Estimation
- EKF
- UKF