Being an open source application doesn't make a difference in either direction. But I suppose it's possible but is there a need to do that ?Since GMAT is open source, it makes me wonder if there is a possibility of interfacing it with Orbiter in some fashion.
Yeah, I haven't looked at it in any detail myself but it just seems that GMAT and IFP/cflight are trying to acheive similar goals. Perhaps there is no real need to use GMAT given we know from IMFD what you are capable of. Equally, maybe there is something to be used and/or learned from GMAT (even if it is mistakes you learn from!) rather using it outright. Your call because its your addon. All that said, I like the direction your project is heading (IMFD on steroids!) so don't let me sidetrack youBeing an open source application doesn't make a difference in either direction. But I suppose it's possible but is there a need to do that ?
But anyway I still need to figure out what GMAT is all about ? Maybe reading a manual at first might help.
Great work Jarmo.I have made some progress with CFlight/IFP binding but there is still a lot to do. Most of the features of CFlight is still off-line and haven't even debugged them yet. The first few tests looks good so far.
Currently CFlight seems to run 160'000 - 50'000 legs, steps or frames per a second witch ever you prefer. I still need to implement some kind of mean orbital elements solution for all objects those are controlled by ephemerides in order to allow a better management of multible level of precision. It doesn't need to have high accuracy but the deviation to ephemerides must remain with-in a certain limits during a long period of time say 50 years.
A computation of typical free-return trajectory requires about 100-200 steps. So, it allows to compute about 700 lunar transfer trajectories per a second. It seems that cflight can do that it is designed to do.
I don't want to be a nuisance by asking the same thing twice, but this would be a really valuable information for me:
Will this enable to plan flights at constant thrust?
please say yes!
There will be add-on interface so users can design own flight planning addons.
Right now you can't design any flight since IFP is badly unfinished.
But if you think something like IFP would automatically compute and optimize a trajectory in order to navigate a low thrust vehicle from one planet to an other. I can't imagine anything like that right now.
I hadn't noticed this thread before. Looks really good.
Hows the project going.
High there again sorry for bumping this but it looks to good to be forgotten about.