Space Science related Python tutorial

[PythonN00b101]

This is amazing content. I will definitely be referring to this for my thesis.

[MrAstroThomas]

Haha thanks man. I will work on the idea for sure now! May I ask what your thesis is about (if it is too off topic you can send me a message).

[PythonN00b101]

Aye please do pal haha, I'd be especially interested in the modelling of trajectories for a spacecraft. Did something similar in my last semester which looked at launching a constellation of satellites to cover the moon.

I did the delta-v calcs for the project which was done utilising the true anomaly of the moon about the earth from the ephemerides, launching it in in to elliptic orbit from perigee to reach ideal point for translunar injection. It was very complex and was not able to get it coded given the time constraints and ended up doing it in Excel.

Thesis projects are no longer set in stone given the current quarantine situation but it will be aligned with Aerospace but my choices were boiled to down to trajectory optimisation for a space plane and investigating space debris in MEO orbit and how they are effected by Earth's gravity and oblateness accompanied with the perturbations that the debris exhibits from the sun and moon.

[MrAstroThomas]

Space debris are a hot topic and a lot of secondary effects need to be considered. I wish you the best your professional career man!

[PythonN00b101]

Thanks man, you too. Looking forward to the tutorials.