The Spacecraft Control Toolbox is the product of more than twenty years of design experience including Indostar/Cakrawarta-1, TDRS, Mars Observer, GGS Polar, Inmarsat 3 and GPS. Princeton Satellite Systems has used it for the past decade to support various major government and corporate contracts. The Classroom Learning Edition puts this experience into the hands of professors and their students for understanding attitude control design issues.
The Classroom Edition of the toolbox contains much of the Spacecraft Control Toolbox core software including the CAD tools, attitude dynamics and control design functions, orbit mechanics, and the CubeSat module. The product includes extensive documentation in Adobe Portable Document Format, including our handbook on spacecraft attitude and orbit control system design.
Please note that Classroom Edition licenses are sold only to university faculty for use in their courses. The software will be made available via download. The classroom license includes technical support for installation and getting started plus a CD of the software. We also offer a separate support package for design support, including custom scripts for your class.
Downloads and Documentation
- Classroom Edition User's Guide
- Online API of function and demo headers
- SCTTutorial demo
Applications
- Spacecraft attitude control system design and analysis.
- Satellite design and simulation, including CubeSats.
- Trade studies.
- Undergraduate and graduate level courses.
- Graduate research projects and theses.
Key Features
The Spacecraft Control Toolbox Classroom Edition provides:
- Attitude dynamics modeling including multibody spacecraft.
- Full suite of SCT CAD design tools.
- Common pointing schemes including sun-nadir, LVLH, and latitude/longitude.
- Environmental modeling such as atmospheric drag, solar and planetary radiation, albedo, magnetic, and gravity gradient torques.
- Pointing and propellant budgeting.
- Keplerian or cartesian orbits.
- Sophisticated simulation plotting tool with animation.
- Includes our comprehensive textbook, Spacecraft Attitude and Orbit Control.
- Free technical support.
Please note that the Classroom Edition does NOT include the following modules of the Professional Edition: Attitude Control, Estimation, Imaging, Orbit, Link, Power, Propulsion, Thermal. The Online API shows exactly which functions are included via the SC, Common, CubeSat, and Plotting modules.