Probe Helper v0.1.4

[sta7ic_matt]

Initial gets-results version of a 'probe helper'. Right now it'll report the mass, cost, power needs, and energy needs of a probe with the selected components and properties.  You can specify how patient you are for the batteries to recharge, if the probe's experiments will be transmitted one-by-one or in a big batch, and how long the probe should be able to function in a shadow (I'm looking at you, Ike).

v0.1.4

• charts!
• making noise about this again

http://probehelper.appspot.com/

Planned improvements:

• tooltips
• path finding

Edited March 11, 2016 by sta7ic_matt

[sta7ic_matt]

Some updates. Calling it v0.1.3 -- the power and battery calculations are correct, and it's handling RTGs and fuel cells for power generation.

* provides count of batteries required

* provides count of solar panels required (around RTG & cells) to sustain base load and desired recharge time

* provides mass and cost for all of the above

Now up at http://probehelper.appspot.com/ ... Google App Engine has enough free hosting to hang a simple servlet. That's going to take a little more time going forward.

[sta7ic_matt]

v0.1.4 update.  It's a pet project, so it's coming along in fits and spurts.

I learned about HighCharts and included those.

I'm sure there are other miscellaneous changes that I didn't dig out of the commit messages.

The next big part is a 'Pathfinder' module, and I'm gradually learning the astrodynamics required for patched conics and Lambert's Problem.