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Nyx provides flight dynamics engineers with a set of powerful, open-source tools for mission design and orbit determination. From trajectory optimization to orbit estimation, Nyx is built for speed, automation, and scalability.

This section showcases some of the problems that you can solve with the whole suite of tools of Nyx.

  • Exporting High Fidelity Orbit Propagation to CCSDS OEM


    HPOP of an Earth centered spacecraft, exporting the OEM, and computing passes from Colorado, USA.

    RAAN, AOP, INC over time

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  • James Webb Space Telescope Monte Carlo Simulation


    Blazing fast multithreaded Monte Carlo simulation of the JWST orbit, and comparison with an orbit determination prediction

    JWST INC (deg)

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  • GEO Low Thrust Orbit Raising & StationKeeping


    GEO eclipse analysis, orbit raising when sunlit, and station keeping, in high fidelity dynamics

    3D traj raise

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  • Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Orbit Determination


    Orbit determination of the as-flown LRO spacecraft using NASA Goddard's published definitive ephemeris

    Doppler resid

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