In July 2008, CS decided to release Orekit – whose development had been started internally in 2002 – under the Apache v2.0 license. Ten years later, Orekit provides an amazing collection of algorithms and features. The library has acquired an international reputation and is massively adopted by a lot of major industrial and scientific players of the spatial sector which use it in operational systems. Today, Orekit is:
Through Hipparchus, Rugged and Stavor, a promising ecosystem is born, and some nice features and projects are under way.
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