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Meet the RocketPy Team

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Since 2018 · Open Source

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The People Behind RocketPy

- RocketPy is built and maintained by a global community of aerospace - engineers, developers, and rocketeers. Meet the active members who - drive the simulator forward. + RocketPy was born inside a student rocketry team and grew into the + world's leading open-source rocket trajectory simulator. This page + is a permanent tribute to everyone who has helped build it — + the founders who started it and the global community of contributors + who keep it flying.

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+ 6-DOF + Flight simulation +
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Our Story

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+ More than six years of open development, condensed into a few + milestones. +

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+ RocketPy started as an internal tool at + Projeto Jupiter, the student rocket design team at the University of São Paulo + (USP), created by Giovani Ceotto to simulate the + flight of the team's rockets with high fidelity. What began as a + way to answer “how high will it fly?” became a full + six-degrees-of-freedom trajectory simulator. +

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+ In 2021, the project was formalized in a peer-reviewed paper in + the Journal of Aerospace Engineering, and RocketPy + stepped out of a single team and into the global rocketry + community. Its results have been validated against real flight + data from teams such as the EPFL Rocket Team and the Notre Dame + Rocket Team. +

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+ Since then, dozens of students, engineers and open-source + contributors from around the world have shaped RocketPy — + through the milestone 1.0 release in 2023 and a + steady cadence of versions ever since. Everyone listed below is + part of that history, marked here for good. +

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  1. + 2018 +
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    Moved to GitHub

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    + Giovani Ceotto brings the simulator into version control at + Projeto Jupiter — the first public commit. +

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  2. + 2020 +
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    First public release

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    + RocketPy is packaged and released to the community (v0.9.5), + open for anyone to install and use. +

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    Published research

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    + “RocketPy: Six Degree-of-Freedom Rocket Trajectory + Simulator” is published in the Journal of Aerospace + Engineering. +

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  4. + 2023 +
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    Version 1.0

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    + A matured, stable API and a fast-growing worldwide community + of contributors. +

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    Still climbing

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    + Actively developed and maintained, powering student teams, + researchers and companies across the globe. +

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Founders & Origins

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+ The people who created RocketPy and set it on its path. +

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Core Maintainers

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+ Long-standing contributors who steward the codebase over the years. +

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Hall of Contributors

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+ Every hand that has shaped RocketPy, drawn from the project's full + commit history. Thank you, all of you. +

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+ This list is generated from RocketPy's public Git history. Missing + or want to fix your name? + Open a PR + — contributions of every size are counted here forever. +

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Built by a community

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+ RocketPy is free and open source, born at + Projeto Jupiter + (USP) and sustained by contributors worldwide. There is a place for + you in the next chapter of this story. +

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