forked from xhinker/orbit

Simulate Flyby in Python

This project tries to calculate a simple orbit of e.g. a space probe that depends from several planets. The positions of the planets are fetched as Ephemeris from NASA's Horizon system, the Space Probe is calculated with the Euler-Cromer method.

Contents:

The repo contains multiple files:

1. solar-system-plt.py, which only uses the Ephemeris to plot the orbits with pyplot.

2. flyby.py, where the solar system is animated with a space probe that makes a flyby around venus.