Project Wednesday
Necessity is the mother of invention. Project Wednesday was born because the necessity is my friend at work who I like to keep bothering with requests for orbital simulations.
Why Wednesday?
A few years ago, just after the lockdowns--when we were a very small team--a lot of us needed meeting-free sections in our schedule where we could just interact with each other in office without having to context switch because a clock said so. We were desperate as an engineering unit for some face-time post-lockdown so I declared (for a while) that every Wednesday would be a meeting-free day at office.
My friend and colleague--a very enterprising individual--prides himself in having stretched this definition for the last 4+ years where Wednesdays have not only continued to be no-meeting days for him (auto-decline on calendar), they've also become his work-from-home days.
While every self-respecting work-from-homer knows that this technically means that he is still working, it also means that he becomes inaccessible to those at work on Wednesday, like yours truly. Replacing him on Wednesdays is my inspiration for this project.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. (Nelson Mandela)
So, an extended weekend getaway with Claude allows me to present Project Wednesday to you. If you're not sure where to start, please check out documentation or choose an example trial and edit it. Please feel free to bring all and any feedback to the repo.
Update: To ensure compliance to SGP4 and good fidelity overall, the project is benchmarked against orekit and the test cases and their associated error values are maintained on the repo's README. Sun's (and moon's) gravity has also been modeled.