[HN Gopher] 42 - Spacecraft Simulation
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42 - Spacecraft Simulation
Author : Stevvo
Score : 50 points
Date : 2025-01-03 18:36 UTC (3 days ago)
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| QuadmasterXLII wrote:
| It's somehow a shame that this has have a core written in C, but
| there really isn't an alternative. It's a really neat project! It
| looks like its designed to be used from Matlab or Julia, which is
| a fascinating pairing.
| Keyframe wrote:
| _It's somehow a shame that this has have a core written in C_
|
| can you elaborate? why would that be a shame?
| Stevvo wrote:
| The models it runs were originally written in FORTRAN. They
| were ported to C for convenience.
| Titan2189 wrote:
| Can I see it in action?
|
| Would love to see it model the optimal suicide burn from Lunar
| Lander http://moonlander.seb.ly/
| Stevvo wrote:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg5cevIOnHk
|
| The graphics are surprisingly good; maybe better than stock
| KSP.
| thangalin wrote:
| For my novel, I was struggling to find rocket simulators that
| allowed setting an initial velocity for the rocket. Most of them
| presume a starting velocity of 0. So, tangentially related, here
| is my calculator that allows users to provide an initial speed
| for the rocket before burning its onboard fuel:
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| https://autonoma.ca/calculators/rocket/payload/
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| Source file containing most of the delta-v calculations:
|
| https://autonoma.ca/calculators/rocket/payload/Rocket.js
|
| Being able to see all the TeX equations rendered with KaTeX on a
| single page is quite convenient.
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