Package org.orekit.files.general

This package provides interfaces for orbit file representations and corresponding parsers.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
EphemerisFile	An interface for accessing the data stored in an ephemeris file and using the data to create a working Propagator.
EphemerisFile.EphemerisSegment	A segment of an ephemeris for a satellite.
EphemerisFile.SatelliteEphemeris	Contains the information about a single satellite from an EphemerisFile.
EphemerisFileParser	Parse an ephemeris file.
EphemerisFileWriter	An interface for writing out ephemeris files to disk.

Class Summary

Class	Description
OrekitEphemerisFile	A class for encapsulating Orekit propagators within an EphemerisFile complaint object that makes for easy serialization to external ephemeris formats like OEM.
OrekitEphemerisFile.OrekitEphemerisSegment
OrekitEphemerisFile.OrekitSatelliteEphemeris	Inner class of OrekitEphemerisFile that defines the OrekitEphemerisFile.OrekitSatelliteEphemeris corresponding object for this ephemeris type.

Package org.orekit.files.general Description

This package provides interfaces for orbit file representations and corresponding parsers.

EphemerisFile and EphemerisFileParser provide a standardized interface for accessing the date in ephemeris files. Each ephemeris file can have data for one ore more satellites and the ephemeris for each satellite can have one or more segments. Each ephemeris segment is interpolated independently so ephemeris segments are commonly used for discontinuous events, such as maneuvers. Each specific implementation provides access to additional information in the file by providing specialized return types with extra getters for the information unique to that file type.

For example to create a propagator from an OEM file one can use:

 EphemerisFileParser parser = new OEMParser()
         .withConventions(IERSConventions.IERS_2010);
 EphemerisFile file = parser.parse("my/ephemeris/file.oem");
 BoundedPropagator propagator = file.getPropagator();
 

The parsed ephemeris file also provides access to the individual data records in the file.

 // ... continued from previous example
 // get a satellite by ID string
 SatelliteEphemeris sat = file.getSatellites().get("satellite ID");
 // get first ephemeris segment
 EphemerisSegment segment = sat.getSegments().get(0)
 // get first state vector in segment
 TimeStampedPVCoordinate pv = segment.getCoordinates().get(0);
 

Author:

T. Neidhart, Evan Ward