Re: [Orekit Users] Orekit 6.1 released

[Evan Ward <evan.ward@nrl.navy.mil>]

Great work! Thats an impressive list of features. I still plan to
compare Orekit's tides and frames with some heritage systems we have
here at NRL, but that will probably happen after the holidays. :)

Orekit's front page (https://www.orekit.org/) is still advertising 6.0,
maybe this takes a while to update?

Best Regards,
Evan

On Fri 13 Dec 2013 08:23:20 AM EST, MAISONOBE Luc wrote:
>
> The Orekit team is pleased to announce that version 6.1 of Orekit has
> been released today.
>
> Version 6.1 is a minor release of Orekit. It introduces several new
> features and bug fixes. The most important features introduced in
> version 6.1 are:
>
> - solid tides force model, including pole tide at user choice,
> and following either IERS 1996, IERS 2003 or IERS 2010 conventions
> - ocean tides force model, including pole tide at user choice,
> loading a user provided model
> - simultaneous support for IERS 1996, 2003 and 2010 for frames
> definition,
> which is very important to support legacy systems and to convert
> coordinates between older and newer reference systems
> - greatly improved accuracy of celestial/terrestrial frames transforms
> (we are now at sub-micro arcsecond level for IERS 2003/2010, both with
> equinox based and Non-Rotating Origin, at a sub-milli arcseconds for
> IERS 1996, both with equinox based and Non-Rotating Origin)
> - classical equinox-based paradigm and new non-rotating origin paradigm
> for inertial and terrestrial frames are now supported with all IERS
> conventions
> - automatic conversion of IERS Earth Orientation Paramters from
> equinoxial
> to non-rotating paradigm support for CCSDS Orbit Data Message
> - improved API for events, allowing separation of event detection and
> event handling (the older API is still available for compatibility)
> - merged all the elevation related events, allowing to use both
> refraction
> model and antenna mask at the same time if desired
> - new attitude mode based on interpolation on a table
>
> Numerous bugs were also fixed.
> Version 6.1 depends on version 3.2 of Apache commons math.
>
> We want to thank everyone who as contributed to this release.
>
>
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