Degenerate Conic

Algorithms • Modern Fortran Programming • Orbital Mechanics

Jul 13, 2014

Fortran Astrodynamics Toolkit

I'm starting a new project on GitHub: the Fortran Astrodynamics Toolkit. Hardly anyone is developing open source orbital mechanics software for modern Fortran, so the time has come. Most of the code from this blog will eventually find its way there. My goal is to include modern Fortran implementations of all the standard orbital mechanics algorithms such as:

  • Lambert solvers
  • Kepler propagators
  • ODE solvers (Runge-Kutta, Nyström, Adams)
  • Orbital element conversions

Then we'll see where it goes from there. The code will be released under a permissive BSD style license.