OpenRocket Headless Simulation

Quick Start — rocket-sim CLI

The rocket-sim CLI at ~/broomva/experiments/rocket-tools/ wraps OpenRocket's headless core. All output is structured JSON.

# Prerequisites: Java 17
export JAVA_HOME=/opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk@17/libexec/openjdk.jdk/Contents/Home

ROCKET="~/broomva/experiments/openrocket/core/src/main/resources/datafiles/examples/A simple model rocket.ork"

# Inspect rocket design
rocket-sim info "$ROCKET"

# Run simulation → JSON with altitude, velocity, mach, events
rocket-sim run "$ROCKET"