Oh, hi! Project creator here.

I am very happy that you folks are showing interest but I am also terrified because this thing is definitely not ready for primetime, yet. The discerning astrodynamicist and/or rustacean will surely find things which are less than optimal or plain wrong.

I am also preparing for a trip so I won't be able to monitor this thread closely but I'll try to answer question wherever I can.

https://github.com/lox-space/lox/blob/main/crates/lox-space/...

The example code is helpful for seeing how it'd be used (might be cool to link to it from the README while the docs are still todo)

A textbook covering the physics of spaceflight, "Astronautics" by Ulrich Walter, was made available for free download by the publisher during the COVID lockdown.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-74373-8

My hope that this plus Kerbal Space Program would transform my brain proved that I tend to ignore my limitations.

Great book, though.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-74373-8

It is kind of sad to be living where it's too early to have your own space craft. It is sci-fi at this point anyway to consider life like that, but that would be cool to write software for like car CAN bus. But I also get it's not a toy/matter of life and death. I guess a video game or simulator is the closest thing. Standardized APIs for thrusters or something that would be cool.

Tie into visual star navigation

I work on simulations in a satellite company and have been looking for a way to move out of c++. Thank you very much, will explore this.

There is another crate in Rust named Nyx [1] that sounds very similar - an astrodynamics library with a Python wrapper. Anyone knows how they compare?

[1] https://github.com/nyx-space/nyx

With a name like 'lox' you'd think the banner image would be Pisces.

Cool project though, I will definitely be playing around with this.