Improve and expand equinoctial elements handling
See original GitHub issue🐞 Problem
poliastro supports equinoctial elements, but test coverage is low and some conversions are not implemented.
🎯 Goal
Improve equinoctial element handling and showcase its advantages (no singularities, etc).
💡 Possible solutions
Some papers to start with:
- ~~Broucke & Cefola “On the equinoctial orbit elements” https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01228432~~
- ~~Cefola “Equinoctial orbit elements - Application to artificial satellite orbits” https://doi.org/10.2514/6.1972-937~~
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- Created 6 years ago
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GMAT raises a singularity exception when the inclination of the orbit is 180, as the
h
andk
elements are singular for that inclination value. Therefore, as suggested by @Yash-10, we should raise an exception in theTODO
line, see:https://github.com/poliastro/poliastro/blob/bebbf617e0ebfb797ba1c593b8241e4cf0f9c466/src/poliastro/core/elements.py#L226-L228
@jorgepiloto saw that at least the latest GMAT version ships with Modified Equinoctial Elements, so perhaps now we can validate them!