Simulation of solar sail trajectories under Prof. Pister at the University of California: Berkeley for the Berkeley Low-cost Interplanetary Solar Sail (BLISS) project.
Before running this notebook, please install conda as a python environment manager. If you're at this point, I'll assume you also have jupyter lab and/or jupyter notebook installed.
To get the appropriate packages to run this notebook started, please first install a new conda environment through the configuration YAML in the repository. Use the following command while in the repository directory:
conda env create -f environment.yml
This will install the following dependancies into your a new conda environment called solar-sail-sim:
- numpy
- ipykernel
- matplotlib
- scipy
- spiceypy
To create a Python kernel for Jupyter to get access to, run the following command:
ipython kernel install --user --name=solar-sail-sim
Now you're all set!
Make sure to commit regularly, and please make sure to export a new YAML configuration file if you install new packages to the python environment.
To install new python packages to the environment, please use use the following:
conda install -n solar-sail-sim <PACKAGE NAME>
To update the YAML configuration file, use the following while in the repository directory AND in the correct conda environment:
conda env export > solar-sail-sim.yml
Spring 2024 (v0.1) Marvin Lin, Andrew Ji, Shazaib Lalani, Matthew Cranny, Luke Harris