poliastro.twobody.propagation.pimienta

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PimientaPropagator

Kepler solver for elliptic orbits based on a 15th

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poliastro.twobody.propagation.pimienta.__class__
class poliastro.twobody.propagation.pimienta.PimientaPropagator

Kepler solver for elliptic orbits based on a 15th order polynomial with accuracies around 10e-5 for elliptic case and 10e-13 in the hyperbolic regime.

Notes

This algorithm was developed by Pimienta-Peñalver and John L. Crassidis in their paper Accurate Kepler Equation solver without trascendental function evaluations. Original paper is on Buffalo’s UBIR repository: http://hdl.handle.net/10477/50522

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propagate(self, state, tof)