Per Aspera Ad Astra - Through Hardship to the Stars!

A Ruby on Rails application to calculate, visualize, and render videos of orbital mechanics.

Technology Stack

• Ruby 3+

• Ruby on Rails 7+

• Hotwire

• StimulusJS

• ThreeJS

• D3.JS

• FFmpeg

• SciRuby NMatrix

• GNU Scientific Library

Acknowledgments

• 3D Models from NASA https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/all/

• Initial States from NASA's Horizons System (although all calculations and predictions are done internally with custom code) https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons/app.html#/