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-Cascade is a C++/Python library developed to propagate the evolution of large number of orbiting objects while detecting
-reliably close encounters and collisions. It is coded in modern C++20 with focus on the efficency of the underlying N-body 
-simulation with collision/conjunction detection.
+*As the number of artificial satellites orbiting our planet grows, the likelihood of collisions increases, potentially triggering a cascade effect making certain orbits unusable.*
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+**cascade** is a C++/Python library developed to propagate the evolution of large number of orbiting objects
+while detecting reliably close encounters and collisions. It is coded in modern C++20 with focus on the
+efficency of the underlying N-body simulation with collision/conjunction detection. Its development was
+motivated to help conjunction tracking and collision detection of orbiting space debris populations.
+
+Notable features include:
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+* an original collision detection algorithm exploiting high order Taylor expansions.
+* guaranteed detection of all occuring collisions and conjunctions.
+* high precision orbital propagation via Taylor integration.
+* possibility to define custom dynamics,
+* seamless usage of modern SIMD instruction sets (including AVX/AVX2/AVX-512/Neon/VSX),
+* seamless multi-threaded parallelisation.
 
 Installation
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