Tutorials

Java tutorials, by the Orekit team

The tests suite is the first place to look for getting help with Orekit use. Several tutorials are also provided with the source code in order to emphazise particular use cases:

Maven site for the Java tutorials

The technical documentation explains how to build, download and contribute to the Orekit tutorials. Please choose the Orekit tutorials release for which you want to consult the technical documentation:

Under development 12.0 11.3 11.2 11.1 11.0 10.3 10.2 10.1

Orekit Python Wrapper examples, by Petrus Hyvönen

Petrus Hyvönen, who works for the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC), created an Orekit Python Wrapper which is acclaimed by a lot of users. He has been maintaining it for years, always providing an update in the days following the release of a new version of Orekit. Petrus also wrote some tutorials for his wrapper, available in the examples directory of the Orekit Python Wrapper repository.

Thanks a lot for your amazing work Petrus!

Free & open source examples

Python Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) orbit determination example, by Clément Jonglez

ASTRIAGraph, (The University of Texas at Austin)