Note: Lox is under active development and does not yet have a stable release. The API of all crates is subject to significant change.
Lox exposes a comprehensive astrodynamics API at varying levels of granularity. The high-level interface offered
by lox-space is designed specifically for mission planning and analysis, while crates like lox-time, lox-earth
and lox-coords provide tools for advanced users and scientific computing.
- A fully featured space mission simulator backend.
- Python bindings for easy integration with industry standard tools.
- Tools for working with time in UTC, TAI, UT1, TT, TCB, TCG and TDB, in wall clock, Julian and high-precision representations.
- An RF communication toolkit.
- Work with fixed and rotating frames in Cartesian and Keplerian coordinate systems.
- Ephemeris, size and shape data for all major celestial bodies.
- Ingest and interpolate Earth orientation parameters with ease.
- Extensible – bring your own time scales, transformation algorithms, data sources and more.
The entrypoint to the Lox ecosystem, suitable for most use cases. Provides a high-level interface for mission planning and analysis. Also includes Lox's Python bindings.
Tools for working in all modern astronomical time scales, including wall clock, Julian and high-precision representations. Offers leap-second aware conversion from UTC to continuous time scales.
Provides structs representing all major celestial bodies, conveniently categorized by a variety of traits exposing SPICE-dervied data.
Tools for planning and analysing RF communication links between spacecraft and ground stations.
Tools for working with fixed and inertial coordinate systems, including transformations between them.
Essential algorithms for Earth-centric astrodynamics, including nutation-precession models, Earth rotation angle, CIP and CIO locations, and coordinate transformations.
A dedicated crate for ingesting and interpolating Earth orientation parameters.
Parses ephemeris data from external sources.
Utilities for reading and writing data in various formats.
A collection of utilities used across the Lox ecosystem.
A next-generation, open-source space mission simulator commissioned by the European Space Agency.
Liquid oxygen—abbreviated LOx, LOX or Lox in the aerospace, submarine and gas industries—is the liquid form of molecular oxygen. It was used as the oxidizer in the first liquid-fueled rocket invented in 1926 by Robert H. Goddard, an application which has continued to the present. Wikipedia