This tool was built to test our rocket in various real weather conditions to determine optimal launch windows based on upcoming weather forecasts.
This tool was built over the course of about 4 days, and so as a result is far from my best programming or software structuring. It is purely a prototpe and was built to get a demo working in a few days.
sim_driver.py builds the dataset the UI reads from, it takes in a lat and lon as command line args.
It gathers weather data from openweather API, and connect it to an OpenRocket simulation using Jpype, using orhelper as a middleman for efficiency.
python3 -m venv venv
source /venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 run.py
You will also need the latest version of OpenRocket in JAR form in the root directory. You can download that from here: https://openrocket.info/downloads.html?vers=22.02