Spacecraft AOCS Tutorial

Browse the functions and demos in the tutorial chapter of the Spacecraft Attitude and Orbit Control textbook from Princeton Satellite System

A tutorial chapter in our textbook provides a complete spacecraft design and includes all of the MATLAB code needed to replicate the results. All of the functions and scripts in this chapter are included in this app.

• Compare point mass and spherical harmonic gravity models
• Compute the downlink power on the ground from the spacecraft in orbit
• Numerically simulate a geostationary satellite orbit
• Perform a 6 dof simulation of satellite attitude and orbit with thermal, power, and communication subsystems; includes a discrete proportional derivative attitude controller
• Temperature, force and power on solar panels due to solar flux

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