Important
Most of these tutorials can be launched as online interactive notebooks thanks to the infrastructure provided by binder. Look for the rocket icon on top of each page!
Important
Some tutorials may use features not available yet in the latest stable release of pykep, and thus might fail to execute correctly in the online interactive notebooks.
Basic#
Start with these tutorials to get the basic gist of how pykep works and its conventions when dealing with astrodynamical notation and computations.
- The various anomalies in pykep
- Epochs and Julian Dates
- Ephemerides
- Interfacing to SPICE and JPL DE ephs
- Lagrange Propagation
- Approximators for low-thrust transfers
- The Sims-Flanagan trajectory leg
- The Sims-Flanagan high-fidelity trajectory leg
- The gradients
- Gradient correctness
- Custom dynamics
- Embedding the leg into an optimization problem
- Adding the gradients
- Inspecting the CR3BP and BCP
- Plotting