Gymnasium Environment for Rocket GNC Training Released

Balloon Popping Challenge is a Gymnasium-based 6-DoF (6 degrees of freedom) rocket guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) simulation environment. It is built on ActiveRocketPy, a fork of the open-source RocketPy.

Key features are as follows:

• Simulates an actively controlled rocket popping balloons scattered in the sky.
• Applies real physical laws, including atmospheric conditions and rocket dynamics, providing an optimized platform for testing GNC algorithms.
• Includes example code for training and evaluation.

The environment provides Actions such as launch commands, TVC gimbal angles, throttle, and roll torque, as well as Observations such as simulation time, balloon states, and rocket sensor data.