Spacecraft

General Mission Analysis Tool

Spacecraft

Spacecraft — A spacecraft model

Description

A Spacecraft resource is GMAT's spacecraft model and includes data and models for the spacecraft's orbit, epoch, attitude, and physical parameters (such as mass and drag coefficient), as well as attached hardware, including tanks and thrusters. The Spacecraft model also contains the data that configures how the Spacecraft 3-D CAD model is used in an OrbitView. Spacecraft has certain fields that can be set in the Mission Sequence and some that cannot. See the field tables on the pages below for more information.

GMAT's documentation for Spacecraft is extensive and is broken down into the following sections: