0.10.0: Dynamic Reference Frames, International Celestial Reference Frame, Lunar Relativistic Time scales

[ChristopherRabotin]

ANISE 0.10.0: Dynamic Reference Frames, International Celestial Reference Frame, Lunar Relativistic Time scales

Release Overview

This version greatly improves in ANISE's reference frame and timekeeping capabilities. The library now natively supports dynamic Earth and body-centered frames (True/Mean of Date and Epoch, via the rust rewrite of SOFA), standardizes ICRS orientation, and integrates lunar relativistic time scales via hifitime 4.3.0. Additionally, file parsing stability has been systematically hardened: I/O errors and bounds-checked slice errors are now always propagated to prevent application panics on truncated DAF or FK inputs.

CRITICAL: Kernel Rebuild Required

All custom ANISE kernel files compiled prior to version 0.10.0 must be rebuilt. The underlying frame encoding architecture has been fundamentally modified to accommodate the new frozen_epoch and force_inertial attributes. Legacy kernel binaries are strictly incompatible with this release and will fail to decode.

Users of the default MetaAlmanac do not need to worry: the kernels hosted on public-data.nyxspace.com have already been made compatible with ANISE 0.10.0 and your programs will automatically update.

Sponsorship

ANISE now serves as the core astrodynamic platform of dozens of state-of-the-art missions and spacecraft. Please consider sponsoring this work to support infrastructure costs and the continued engineering effort on nights and weekends to maintain this standard: https://github.com/sponsors/nyx-space .

Pull requests

New Features

• Explicitly frozen and explicitly inertial Frames by @ChristopherRabotin in New feature: Explicitly frozen and explicitly inertial Frames #697
• Add ICRS orientation and GCRF/ICRF frame constants by @translunar in Add ICRS orientation and GCRF/ICRF frame constants #690
• Implement Earth True/Mean of Date/Epoch and generic True/Mean of Date/Epoch by @ChristopherRabotin in Implement Earth True/Mean of Date/Epoch and generic True/Mean of Date/Epoch #713
• Fix Analysis engine: adaptive step scanner might create a bad duration #703: if event eval has not changed, keep the current step + Update to hifitime 4.3.0, enabling Lunar Time and Lunar Coordinated Time by @ChristopherRabotin in Fix #703: if event eval has not changed, keep the current step + Update to hifitime 4.3.0, enabling Lunar Time and Lunar Coordinated Time #706

Improvements

• Implement a binary search querying of ordered NAIF IDs in DAF files by @ChristopherRabotin in Implement a binary search querying of ordered NAIF IDs in DAF files #698
• avoid panic when opening FK files in convert-fk (propagate IO error) by @jmestwa-coder in avoid panic when opening FK files in convert-fk (propagate IO error) #687
• Avoid panic on truncated input by using bounds-checked slice in CLI by @jmestwa-coder in Avoid panic on truncated input by using bounds-checked slice in CLI #688
• replace unwrap() with error propagation across anise/src by @themouli in replace unwrap() with error propagation across anise/src #693
• Add insert_location to build a location kernel at runtime by @ChristopherRabotin in Add insert_location to build a location kernel at runtime #707
• Add Altitude and SemiMajorAxisAltitude enum variants for OrbitalElement by @ChristopherRabotin in Add Altitude and SemiMajorAxisAltitude enum variants for OrbitalElement #712
• feat(anise): Implement serde_dhall::StaticType for spacecraft and covariance types by @ChristopherRabotin in feat(anise): Implement serde_dhall::StaticType for spacecraft and covariance types #676

Bug Fixes

• daf truncation bugs by @themouli in daf truncation bugs #677
• Fix WASM build and add new CI step for verification by @thomasantony in Fix WASM build and add new CI step for verification #678

Miscellaneous

• Fix Variable names are swapped in lookup table ASN.1 encdec (no practical effect) #694 -- affects code only, no change in encoding by @ChristopherRabotin in Fix #694 -- affects code only, no change in encoding #696
• Refactor RCN DCM functions to reuse RIC functions by @ChristopherRabotin in Refactor RCN DCM functions to reuse RIC functions #699
• build(deps): update egui_logger requirement from 0.9.0 to 0.10.0 by @dependabot[bot] in build(deps): update egui_logger requirement from 0.9.0 to 0.10.0 #683
• Update the CRC32s of the PCA files by @ChristopherRabotin in Update the CRC32s of the PCA files #709

New Contributors

• @themouli made their first contribution in daf truncation bugs #677
• @jmestwa-coder made their first contribution in avoid panic when opening FK files in convert-fk (propagate IO error) #687

Full Changelog: 0.9.6...0.10.0

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