Reference Frames | Numerical Methods with Python 3

In this video I go over the definition of reference frames, and show a number of examples of inertial and non-inertial frames for spacecraft. I show how NASA's SPICE system defines reference frames, the Earth Centered Inertial frame and Earth centered Earth fixed groundtracks. In the next few videos I will be covering rotation matrices, euler angles, and quaternions (including how to compute them in Python), which are all essential and heavily used for spacecraft, rockets, and other robotics systems.

Link to Introduction to Orbital Mechanics with Python 0:

Link to NASA document covering reference frames:

Link to Ohio State University document describing barycentric dynamical time (TDB):

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