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Orekit

An accurate and efficient core layer for space flight dynamics applications

Orekit is a low level space dynamics library written in Java. Orekit is designed to be easily used in very different contexts, from quick studies up to critical operations. As a library, Orekit provides basic elements (orbits, dates, attitude, frames, ...) and various algorithms to handle them (conversions, propagations, pointing, ...).

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Official releases

Official Orekit releases are available on our Gitlab instance. They are also available in the Maven repository.

Development version

To get the latest development version, please clone our official repository and checkout the develop branch: