[Orekit Developers] Happy birthday Orekit!

[MAISONOBE Luc <luc.maisonobe@c-s.fr>]

In July 2008, CS decided to release Orekit – whose development had  
been started internally in 2002 – under the Apache v2.0 license. Ten  
years later, Orekit provides an amazing collection of algorithms and  
features. The library has acquired an international reputation and is  
massively adopted by a lot of major industrial and scientific players  
of the spatial sector which use it in operational systems. Today,  
Orekit is:

    166 000 lines of code
    2 800 unit tests, covering 96% of instructions
    36 000 pages viewed per month
    630 downloads per month
    3 external committers and a lot of one-time contributors
    8 entities represented in its project management committee
    a valued and growing community

Through Hipparchus, Rugged and Stavor, a promising ecosystem is born,  
and some nice features and projects are under way.

best regards,
The Orekit Team