What's New for ODTK 7.4
ODTK 7.4 is a minor release with a two new features and some additional improvements. You are encouraged to read thoroughly all release notes to understand how you may benefit or be impacted if upgrading from a previous version.
Feature items
Initial geolocation
ODTK now supports the estimation of Earth-based facility positions based on SB TDOA measurements between several satellites and an emitter on the facility. You can now:
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Add an InitialGeolocation object under a Facility object
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Configure the InitialGeolocation to use either four collector satellites or three collector satellites
- Use an InitialGeolocation object to generate facility position estimates
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Transfer the estimated facility position to the facility object
Central body ephemeris
ODTK now has the ability to estimate corrections to central body ephemerides. This is important for missions to small bodies, such as asteroids, for which highly accurate ephemerides are not available. You can turn on this option through the Scenario.CentralBodyList attribute. When estimating corrections to nominal central body ephemerides, ODTK will generate updated ephemeris for the selected central bodies in the SPICE BSP format.
Scripting documentation change
In the ODTK Help, the "Integrating with ODTK" section has an improved structure and organization. The section overview has a diagram that clearly shows how you can interact with ODTK, with or without using the application UI. The biggest change to the Help is that the topic formerly known as the ODTK Scripting Guide no longer exists as a single long document. It is now broken into organized subsections and topics, which improves your ability visualize the constituent parts and find specific topics quickly.