[Orekit Developers] Orekit 8.0 released

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

The Orekit team is pleased to announce that version 8.0 of Orekit has  
been released today.

Version 8.0 is a major release of Orekit. It introduces several new  
features and bug fixes
as well as a major dependency change. New features introduced in  
version 8.0 are

 - orbit determination,
 - specialized propagator for GPS satellites based on SEM or YUMA files,
 - computation of Dilution Of Precision
 - new angular separation event detector.

Several bugs have been fixed.

A major change introduced with version 8.0 is the switch from Apache  
Commons Math
to Hipparchus as the mathematical library, which also implied switching from
Java 6 to Java 8.

best regards,

Luc Maisonobe, on behalf of the Orekit team