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Use the menu above to get more information about Professional Edition features in the specific areas listed. The toolbox can be used for many aspects of spacecraft design and analysis including control system design, nonlinear simulation, orbit analysis and mission planning including interplanetary trajectories, spacecraft design and layout, trade studies, attitude and orbit visualization. The toolbox is provided with full source code for every function, nothing is hidden!

Downloads and Documentation

• SCT Pro Overview Tech Brief
• User's Guide
• Online API
• Attitude3D demo (simulation using a CAD model of the spacecraft to view the attitude)
• LEO Analysis Demo. Analyze the sun incidence angle on the body of a nadir pointing spacecraft.

Key Features

The Spacecraft Control Toolbox Professional Edition provides a comprehensive suite of software capable of:

• Spacecraft control system design and analysis.
• Attitude dynamics modeling including flexible and multi-body spacecraft.
• Orbit dynamics analysis and simulation.
• Attitude estimation including star identification.
• Orbit determination using continuous-discrete and unscented Kalman filters.
• Ephemeris calculation including astronomical almanac and JPL ephmerides.
• Environmental modeling including atmospheric, planetary albedo and radiation, gravitational, and magnetic field.
• Disturbance calculation from detailed spacecraft geometry and properties specification.
• Pointing and propellant budgeting.
• Spacecraft visualization.
• Thermal analysis.
• Propulsion system and launch vehicle analysis.
• Link analysis and budgets including optical and RF.
• Mass properties analysis.
• Importing spacecraft geometry from AutoCAD DXF and Wavefront OBJ files.

Click here to view the online API.

The toolbox is supplied with a comprehensive handbook on spacecraft attitude and orbit control and dynamics. PSS provides free email and phone technical support and will create custom scripts and add new functionality at user request. Download the FileHelp demo to browse the help comments of all the functions before you buy!