Citing Orekit

To cite Orekit in a scientific paper, please use the Orekit Zenodo Digital Object Identifier.
Hipparchus can also be cited with its own Hipparchus Zenodo DOI.

Presentations

Orekit Days

• Second Orekit Day
  Darmstadt, Germany
  May 23rd 2019

• First Orekit Day
  Toulouse, France
  November 27th 2017

Orekit Talks

• Third Orekit Talk: Orekit for the Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition
  Serra R.
  April 19th 2024

• Second Orekit Talk: Propagating Uncertainties - New methods of Uncertainties Propagation with Orekit
  Humeau F.
  September 21st 2023

• First Orekit Talk: Recent evolutions of the DSST propagator in the Orekit library
  Cazabonne B.
  May 23rd 2023

Technical Notes

• Indirect approach for optimal control in Orekit
  Serra R.
  October 2024

• Orbit and Covariance Interpolation/Blending with Orekit
  Cucchietti V.
  May 2023

Scientific publications on Orekit

• A Semi-analytical Approach for Orbit Determination based on Extended Kalman Filter
  Cazabonne B., Bayard J., Journot M., and Cefola P. J.
  August 2021 – 2021 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference

• An Open-Source Solution for TLE based Orbit Determination
  Paulet T., Cazabonne B.
  April 2021 – 8th European Conference on Space Debris

• Towards Accurate Orbit Determination using Semi-analytical Satellite Theory
  Cazabonne B., Cefola P. J.
  February 2021 – 31st AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting

• Improve GNSS Orbit Determination by using Estimated Tropospheric and Ionospheric Models
  Cazabonne B., Maisonobe L.
  April 2020 – 2020 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS)

• Open Source Orbit Determination with Semi-Analytical Theory
  Cazabonne B., Maisonobe L.
  November 2018 – 7th International Conference on Astrodynamics Tools and Techniques (ICATT)

• Multi-satellites Precise Orbit Determination, an adaptable open-source implementation
  Maisonobe L., Parraud P., Journot M., Alcarraz-Garcia A.
  May 2018 – 15th International Conference on Space Operations (SpaceOps)

• Automatic differentiation for propagation of orbit uncertainties in Orekit
  Antolino A., Maisonobe L.
  November 2016 – Stardust Conference

• Validating short periodics contributions in a Draper semi-analytical satellite theory implementation: the Orekit example
  Bernard N., Maisonobe L., Barbulescu L., Bazavan P.
  October 2015 – 25th International Symposium on Space Flight Dynamics (ISSFD)

• Do Open Source tools rival heritage systems? A comparison of tide models in OCEAN and Orekit
  Ward E. M., Warner J. G., Maisonobe L.
  August 2014 – AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference

• Validation of the Draper semi-analytical satellite theory implementation in Orekit
  Bernard N., Parraud P., Maisonobe L., Barbulescu L.
  April 2014 – Key topics in Propagation applied to Space Situational Awareness (KePASSA)

• Revisiting the DSST standalone orbit propagator
  Cefola P. J., Di Costanzo R., Folcik Z. J., Bernard N.
  January 2014 – Advances in the Astronautical Sciences journal 152:2891-2914

• Verification of the Orekit Java implementation of the Draper semi-analytical satellite theory
  Cefola P. J., Bentley B., Maisonobe L., Parraud P.
  February 2013 – 23rd AAS/AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting

• Open governance of the Orekit space flight dynamics library
  Maisonobe L., Cefola P. J., Frouvelle N., Herbinière S.
  May 2012 – ICATT 2012

• Extending propagation with user-defined equations, applications to optimization and partial derivatives computation
  Pommier-Maurussane V., Maisonobe L., Parraud P.
  September 2011 – Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Sciences and Applications (DOI: 10.7446/jaesa.0303.05)

• Sharing the knowledge: an Open Source vision for flight dynamics
  Maisonobe L., Fernandez-Martin C.
  April 2010 – SpaceOps 2010

• Orekit: an Open Source library for operational flight dynamics applications
  Maisonobe L., Pommier-Maurussane V., Parraud P.
  April 2010 – ICATT 2010

Scientific publications using Orekit

These publications are not directly related to Orekit. The purpose here is to share scientific works that makes use of Orekit and highlight the diversity of Orekit usages.
So if you have used Orekit in your work and have published a paper on it, please consider sharing it here!
There is a dedicated thread on the forum where you can contact us and share your references.

• Informing Space Operations: A Broadcast Network for Cooperative Traffic Management and Zero-Gap Telemetry
  Ewig R., PhD
  October 2024 – 75th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2024), Space Operations Symposium, International Astronautical Federation

• Validation of GTDS and DSST Standalone Versions against Precise Orbit Ephemeris
  Cefola P. J., Lopez R., San-Juan J. F., Cazabonne B., Setty S., Vallado D.
  August 2023 – AAS Paper 23-344, 2023 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Big Sky, MT, August 13-17, 2023

• Very low thrust station-keeping for low Earth orbiting satellites
  Maisonobe L., Parraud P.
  February 2023 – Advances in Space Research, Volume 71, Issue 3, Pages 1558-1593

• Initial Tracking, Fast Identification in a Swarm and Combined SLR and GNSS Orbit Determination of the TUBIN Small Satellite
  Jonglez C., Bartholomäus J., Werner P., Stoll E.
  December 2022 – Aerospace, vol. 9, no. 12, Art. no. 12, Dec. 2022, doi: 10.3390/aerospace9120793

• Feasibility of using a software-defined baseband for multiple space per aperture (MSPA) ground operations.
  Browne Mwakyanjala M., Hyvönen P., De Oliveira E. J., Van de Beek J.
  March 2022 – International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking, 40(2), 133-147., 2022

• ADCS performance assessment using payload camera: lessons learned on a small satellite mission and future applications
  Jonglez C., Barschke M., Bartholomäus J., Werner P.
  May 2021 – 16th International Conference on Space Operations (SpaceOps), Cape Town, 2021

• A sensitivity analysis of satellite navigation using landmarks
  Ward E. M.
  March 2021 – 2021 IEEE Aerospace Conference, pages 1–9

• Analysis of a Swarm Deployment for Very Low Earth Orbit Operations
  Udrea B.
  2019 – 29th AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Kaanapali, Maui, HI

• Artificial Neural Network–Based Machine Learning Approach to Improve Orbit Prediction Accuracy
  Peng H., Bai X.
  September 2018 – Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets Vol. 55, No. 5, September–October 2018

• Exploring Capability of Support Vector Machine for Improving Satellite Orbit Prediction Accuracy
  Peng H., Bai X.
  June 2018 – Journal of Aerospace Information Systems Vol. 15, No. 6, June 2018

• On-board terminal developments and operations of optical ground networks for small satellites
  Hyvönen P., Vidmark A., Francou L., Baister G.
  May 2018 – 15th International Conference on Space Operations (SpaceOps), AIAA, Marseille, 2018

• Modular Orekit-based flight dynamics software
  Journot M., Frouvelle N., Udroiu C. I., Barbulescu L. F., Hogoiu O. M., Teodorescu M., Janer A., Sola Romeu P.
  May 2018 – 15th International Conference on Space Operations (SpaceOps), AIAA, Marseille, 2018

• On directional measurement representation in orbit determination
  Ward E. M., Carbott G.
  September 2016 – AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, September 2016

• Comparing radius of convergence in solving the nonlinear least squares problem for precision orbit determination of geodetic satellites
  Garner J. G., Carbott G., Ward E. M, Lemm K.
  September 2016 – AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, page 5339, 2016

• Operations of optical ground networks for small satellites
  Hyvönen P., Baister G., Vidmark A.
  June 2016 – ESA Small Satellites, System & Services Symposium, 2016

• Global sensitivity analysis of terrain effects in geolocation systems
  Ward E. M.
  July 2015 – IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 51(3):2039–2046, 2015

• Automated booking and scheduling for CubeSats: Development of an automated Scheduling engine for satellite communication with emphasis on communication with CubeSats
  Hemberg A.
  August 2014 – Thesis work, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 2014

• Ground vs. satellite relay based data download from low Earth orbit – a technical, financial and commercial comparison
  Hyvönen P., Eilertsen B.
  September 2013 – Proc. 64th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Beijing, China, 2013

• Ground station networks vs. GEO relay satellites for polar orbiting satellites data download
  Eilertsen B., Hyvönen P.
  June 2012 – Proc. 12th International Conference on Space Operations (SpaceOps), AIAA, Stockholm, 2012

• OPTEL-µ: A Compact System for Optical Downlinks from LEO Satellites
  Dreischer T., Thieme B., Bacher M., Buchheim K., Hyvönen P.
  June 2012 – Proc. 12th International Conference on Space Operations (SpaceOps), AIAA, Stockholm, 2012