# \[ANN\] GMAT.jl: Run NASA's General Mission Analysis Tool from Julia

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-gmat-jl-run-nasas-general-mission-analysis-tool-from-julia/45959
**Category:** Astro/Space
**Tags:** announcement
**Created:** [September 2, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-gmat-jl-run-nasas-general-mission-analysis-tool-from-julia/45959 "2020-09-02T15:32:01Z")
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### Author: ![helgee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/helgee/32/2022_2.png) [@helgee](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/helgee)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-gmat-jl-run-nasas-general-mission-analysis-tool-from-julia/45959/1 "2020-09-02T15:32:01Z")

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Hi folks,

I want to announce another small but exciting package:

[https://github.com/JuliaSpace/GMAT.jl](https://github.com/JuliaSpace/GMAT.jl)

This package allows you to run scripts written for [NASA’s General Mission Analysis Tool](https://gmat.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/GW/overview?mode=global) from the convenience of your Julia REPL.  
While this is accomplished through a single function (`run_script`), the important feature is that the package is based on [GMAT\_jll](https://github.com/JuliaBinaryWrappers/GMAT_jll.jl) which is cross-compiled for all supported platforms through the magic of BinaryBuilder.jl.

The long-term plan is to use [CxxWrap.jl](https://github.com/JuliaInterop/CxxWrap.jl) to make more of GMAT’s functionality available directly from Julia so that nobody is forced to use GMAT’s funky scripting language anymore 😆

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### Author: ![anon37204545](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@anon37204545](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/anon37204545)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-gmat-jl-run-nasas-general-mission-analysis-tool-from-julia/45959/2 "2020-09-02T16:33:06Z")

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I didn’t know this organization existed. Does it come from the [SatelliteToolbox](https://github.com/SatelliteToolbox) org?

I just added it to [About the Astro/Space category](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/about-the-astro-space-category/5036).

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### Author: ![helgee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/helgee/32/2022_2.png) [@helgee](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/helgee)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2020, 4:54pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-gmat-jl-run-nasas-general-mission-analysis-tool-from-julia/45959/3 "2020-09-02T16:54:53Z")

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> [@anon37204545](#):
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> I didn’t know this organization existed. Does it come from the [SatelliteToolbox](https://github.com/SatelliteToolbox) org?

It is a joint venture of @Ronis_BR and myself at the moment, i.e. a merger of the [JuliaAstrodynamics](https://github.com/JuliaAstrodynamics) and [SatelliteToolbox](https://github.com/SatelliteToolbox) orgs.