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I'm so curious what the navigation department for a place like NASA/JPL consists of. Each probe/satellites mission is so custom, do they have a software suite t

I'm so curious what the navigation department for a place like NASA/JPL consists of. Each probe/satellites mission is so custom, do they have a software suite that they've refined over the last 50 years, is it a couple physics professors etc, are there two teams working independently to make sure no one messes up?

7kay 5y ago
They use GMAT, the General Mission Analysis Tool https://opensource.gsfc.nasa.gov/projects/GMAT/index.php https://opensource.gsfc.nasa.gov/projects/GMAT/index.php
- amelius 5y ago
  Do Russians and the Chinese use a similar tool?
  - DataGata 5y ago
    I would be willing to bet money they use the same tool.
- mishafb 5y ago
  I should have expected it to be matlab...
  - darkwater 5y ago
    Where do you see it being MATLAB? It just says that has a MATLAB compatible syntax. This is the SF page, with some screenshot: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gmat/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/gmat/