Luc Maisonobe of French company C-S is known as "the father of Orekit". This open governance low level flight dynamics library is used by many private and government organizations worldwide to identify and track space satellites.

Luc Maisonobe joins Cold Star Project host Jason Kanigan to discuss:

• how the idea of Orekit was conceived
• the way the technology required for Orekit was identified
• where the data for Orekit comes from
• what Luc would do differently now from a process perspective compared to the project's beginning
• whether Orekit will evolve into a different kind of program, with increased usage and data from more launches
• how the open governance model for project management has worked, including accountability, and what unexpected thing has come out of it.

Orekit space flight dynamics library: https://www.orekit.org/

Orekit forum: https://forum.orekit.org/

Orekit forge: https://gitlab.orekit.org/orekit/orekit

Orekit quality dashboard: https://sonar.orekit.org/dashboard?id=org.orekit%3Aorekit

Rugged geolocation library: https://www.orekit.org/rugged/

Orekit as a service: https://oraas.orekit.space/

Talk to Cold Star: https://www.coldstartech.com/bookcall