Orekit 13.0.3 released

The Orekit team is pleased to announce the release of Orekit version 13.0.3.

This patch version fixes several issues related to performances, data loading, and some wrong computation. It depends on Hipparchus 4.0.1.

For complete release notes please see Orekit – Orekit Changes.

Update EGM default supported names for EGM 2008 .
Allow SinexParser to handle empty lines.
Fixed wrong date for frames transforms in ionospheric models.
Avoid recomputing again and again the same transform between peered frames.
Fixed clone behavior in propagator builders.
Removed duplicate parameter of local clock offset in OneWayGNSSPhase.
Improved performance of shiftedBy in (Field)Orbit for vanishing time of flight.
Fixed LOF case in StateCovarianceMatrixProvider.
Fixed parameter driver added twice.
Fixed logic in EGMFormatReader to allow tide-free EGM2008 harmonics.
Avoid recomputing attitude twice in AggregateBoundedPropagator.
Fixed unit errors in EOP CSV format parser.
Speed up numbers formatting in Rinex files.
Fixed problem with FieldCircularOrbit.
Temporary fix to issue 1719 until GenericTimeStampedCache is fixed.
Updated regular expression in GravityFieldFactory to read EGM2008 file as well as EGM96.
Fixed initial spacecraft state type when DSST Jacobian is activated.

Maven artifacts are available in Maven Central. The source code and binaries can be retrieved from the releases page on our GitLab instance.

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