🚀 Nyx Space 2.0.0 is finally Here 🚀

[ChristopherRabotin]

Summary

I'm thrilled to announce the official release of Nyx Space 2.0.0, a major update to our high-fidelity astrodynamics toolkit! This release represents years of work and innovation, bringing significant improvements and new features for space mission analysis and orbit determination.

Key Highlights:

• ANISE Integration: Nyx now relies entirely on ANISE, a full rewrite of SPICE, for all planetary ephemeris computations, reference frame rotations, and planetary constants. ANISE is validated to match NASA/NAIF SPICE to machine precision, ensuring the highest level of accuracy for your simulations.
• Orbit Determination Enhancements: Nyx 2.0.0 provides more realistic orbit determination noise models, enabling online measurement rejection and estimation of various spacecraft parameters like coefficient of reflectivity.
• Improved Data Handling: Nyx now utilizes Parquet file format for data import and export. This offers seamless interoperability with dataframes (pandas, polars) and allows for storing additional metadata within the files.

What's Changed since 2.0.0-rc

Use case examples

• Add GEO drift, orbit raise, and station keeping example by @ChristopherRabotin in Add GEO drift, orbit raise, and station keeping example #344
• Lunar reconnaisance orbiter example by @ChristopherRabotin in Lunar reconnaisance orbiter example #356

New features

• Account for state covariance in measurement noise by @ChristopherRabotin in Account for state covariance in measurement noise #337
• Scrape examples for docs and quicken the CI by @ChristopherRabotin in Scrape examples for docs and quicken the CI #345
• Support estimation of spacecraft coefficient of reflectivity and drag by @ChristopherRabotin in Support estimation of spacecraft coefficient of reflectivity and drag #350
• Reduce number of generics for propagator options by @ChristopherRabotin in Reduce number of generics for propagator options #367
• Consolidated accel and sum into Vector4 by @gregjesl in Consolidated accel and sum into Vector4 #369
• Fix build in prep for anise 0.5 WIP by @ChristopherRabotin in Fix build in prep for anise 0.5 WIP #372
• Bound the proposed integrator steps by @ChristopherRabotin in Bound the proposed integrator steps #378
• Added template method for mean surface event by @gregjesl in Added template method for mean surface event #381
• Breaking changes: runtime filtering of measurements and selection of processing for simultaneous measurements by @ChristopherRabotin in Breaking changes: runtime filtering of measurements and selection of processing for simultaneous measurements #379
• Add CCSDS TDM v 2.0 import/export by @ChristopherRabotin in Add CCSDS TDM v 2.0 import/export #384
• Add path and mode to TDM by @ChristopherRabotin in Add path and mode to TDM #385
• Cleaning up Nyx in prep for 2.0.0 by @ChristopherRabotin in Cleaning up Nyx in prep for 2.0.0 #391

Dependencies

• Update typed-builder requirement from 0.18.0 to 0.19.1 by @dependabot in Update typed-builder requirement from 0.18.0 to 0.19.1 #338
• Refactor orbit/spacecraft state generator to always use the multivariate normal by @ChristopherRabotin in Refactor orbit/spacecraft state generator to always use the multivariate normal #340
• Update shadow-rs requirement from 0.29.0 to 0.30.0 by @dependabot in Update shadow-rs requirement from 0.29.0 to 0.30.0 #342
• Update rstest requirement from 0.21.0 to 0.22.0 by @dependabot in Update rstest requirement from 0.21.0 to 0.22.0 #348
• Update shadow-rs requirement from 0.30.0 to 0.31.1 by @dependabot in Update shadow-rs requirement from 0.30.0 to 0.31.1 #346
• Update to nalgebra 0.33 + switch to anise git by @ChristopherRabotin in Update to nalgebra 0.33 + switch to anise git #349
• Update shadow-rs requirement from 0.31.1 to 0.32.0 by @dependabot in Update shadow-rs requirement from 0.31.1 to 0.32.0 #354
• Update polars requirement from 0.41.2 to 0.42.0 by @dependabot in Update polars requirement from 0.41.2 to 0.42.0 #355
• Update shadow-rs requirement from 0.32.0 to 0.33.0 by @dependabot in Update shadow-rs requirement from 0.32.0 to 0.33.0 #357
• Update typed-builder requirement from 0.19.1 to 0.20.0 by @dependabot in Update typed-builder requirement from 0.19.1 to 0.20.0 #358
• Upgrade to anise 0.4.3 by @ChristopherRabotin in Upgrade to anise 0.4.3 #362
• Update shadow-rs requirement from 0.33.0 to 0.35.0 by @dependabot in Update shadow-rs requirement from 0.33.0 to 0.35.0 #365
• Update parquet requirement from 52.0.0 to 53.0.0 by @dependabot in Update parquet requirement from 52.0.0 to 53.0.0 #360
• Update polars requirement from 0.42.0 to 0.43.1 by @dependabot in Update polars requirement from 0.42.0 to 0.43.1 #364
• Update rstest requirement from 0.22.0 to 0.23.0 by @dependabot in Update rstest requirement from 0.22.0 to 0.23.0 #368
• Update shadow-rs requirement from 0.35.0 to 0.36.0 by @dependabot in Update shadow-rs requirement from 0.35.0 to 0.36.0 #376

New Contributors

• @gregjesl made their first contribution in Consolidated accel and sum into Vector4 #369

Full Changelog: 2.0.0-rc...2.0.0

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[gwbres]

congratulations for all your achievements once again @ChristopherRabotin 👏

looking forward to what we will be able to accomplish using your toolkit, we're just getting started

PS: all the best for 2025 !