It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Houston. In fact while I’m writing this, it is Christmas; don’t worry though for the lights for many of these places will be up until New Year. There are light displays all around for those living in the city or coming…

Introduction In Python, two language constructs delay result creation whenever possible in user-defined operations: generator functions and generator expressions. Generator functions are coded as normal def statements but use yield statements to return results one at a time. …

Introduction The article here is the first of a series which presents an understanding of spacecraft orbit determination. Please note that though there is no hard math derivation in this article, terminologies are presented which assumes the reader has a passing knowledge of linear algebra and Newtonian mechanics. Orbit determination (henceforth…

Introduction Optimization is the way of life. With finite resources, we want to make the most of what we have. Linear programming (LP) is one of the simplest types of optimization and despite its simplicity, such optimization is used everywhere. Whether this is to figure out how to arrange the most…