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https://github.com/esa/cascade

Propagate the evolution of large number of orbiting objects while detecting reliably conjunctions and collisions.
https://github.com/esa/cascade

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Propagate the evolution of large number of orbiting objects while detecting reliably conjunctions and collisions.

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*As the number of artificial satellites orbiting our planet grows, the likelihood of collisions increases, potentially triggering a cascade effect making certain orbits unusable.*

**cascade** is a C++/Python library developed to propagate the evolution of large number of orbiting objects
while detecting reliably close encounters and collisions. It is coded in modern C++20 with focus on the
efficency of the underlying N-body simulation with collision/conjunction detection. Its development was
motivated to help conjunction tracking and collision detection of orbiting space debris populations.

Notable features include:

* an original collision detection algorithm exploiting high order Taylor expansions.
* guaranteed detection of all occuring collisions and conjunctions.
* high precision orbital propagation via Taylor integration.
* possibility to define custom dynamics.
* seamless usage of modern SIMD instruction sets (including AVX/AVX2/AVX-512/Neon/VSX).
* seamless multi-threaded parallelisation.

Installation
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Via pip:

```console
$ pip install esa_cascade
```

Via conda + [conda-forge](https://conda-forge.org/):

```console
$ conda install cascade
```