RocketPy's Version 0.13.0 is out!

[giovani_ceotto]

Thirteen.
13... Reasons why? IPhone 13? Friday 13th?

No! It's RocketPy's Version 0.13.0 that is out now! Our biggest release so far accounts for many, many new features. 13, to be exact (actually, there are 22). The main ones stem from the Environment Analysis done both for EuroC Rocket Competition and Spaceport America Cup, which can now be accessed here: https://github.com/RocketPy-Team/RocketPy/blob/master/rocketpy/EnvironmentAnalysis.py

RocketPy can be updated using pip with the following command:

pip install rocketpy==0.13.0

The new release itself can be found here with more details: https://github.com/RocketPy-Team/RocketPy/releases/tag/v0.13.0

*What is RocketPy? RocketPy is a next-generation trajectory simulation solution for High-Power Rocketry under active development by the community. The code is written as an open-source Python library and allows for a complete 6 degrees of freedom simulation of a rocket's flight trajectory, including high fidelity variable mass effects as well as descent under parachutes. Weather conditions, such as wind profile, can be imported from sophisticated datasets, allowing for realistic scenarios. Furthermore, the implementation facilitates complex simulations, such as multi-stage rockets, design and trajectory optimization and dispersion analysis. The project is hosted by GitHub: https://github.com/RocketPy-Team/RocketPy

 

[bdureau]

Hello
Looks quite complex for the end user. Are you guys planning on creating a user interface to do something similar to OpenRocket? Or is that a research project?

 

[shockie]

Hello
Looks quite complex for the end user. Are you guys planning on creating a user interface to do something similar to OpenRocket? Or is that a research project?

Exactly . It's virtually unusable to the average end-user in it's present form.

 

[bdureau]

Designing a user interface that works for everybody is challenging. If you want to democratize your project I would consider doing it.
Having said that your project seams to have quite a lot of documentation which is a very good thing

 

[giovani_ceotto]

Hello
Looks quite complex for the end user. Are you guys planning on creating a user interface to do something similar to OpenRocket? Or is that a research project?

RocketPy started out with the goal of providing a framework for university students to perform complex engineering analyses of HPR flights by leveraging the Python ecosystem. We are seeing a lot of adoption from university teams participating in competitions such as SACup/IREC, EuRoC and LASC.

However, the development team has grown since then and we currently have several work fronts in progress. One of them is a user-friendly interface, currently codenamed RocketPy Vision, which should be coming in 2023.

 

[bdureau]

nice. Looking forward to it.

 

[thzero]

I don't see where this treads new ground. As for user friendliness it depends on the definition of a "user". Lots of scripting going on using python notebooks so if the user is comfortable with that then or understands code it's not bad. Same with power of drag curve.

Complexity from just scanning through it is the default inertia settings. OR, RAS Aero, Rocksim calc that for the end user.

I know why Python was chosen, but omg Python.