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
- Planets and User Defined Planets (UDPLAs)
- UDPLAs in pykep
- Custom UDPLAs: a tutorial
- Custom UDPLAs: an example in the CR3BP
- Interfacing to SPICE and JPL DE ephs
- Lagrange Propagation
- Inspecting the Zero Hold simple sail dynamics
- System definition
- Simulating with no sail acceleration
- Simulating some sail action
- Inspecting the CR3BP and BCP
- Approximators for low-thrust transfers
- The Sims-Flanagan trajectory leg
- The Zero Order Hold trajectory leg
- 1 - Test the zero hold leg
- 2 - Use with arbitrary dynamics
- The Zero Order Hold - Solar Sail
- 1 - Test the zero hold solar sail leg
- Plotting