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Tag: Toolboxes

  • Brand New Free SCT Textbook Companion App for MATLAB

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    Yosef Razin
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    We are happy to announce the release of our free Textbook Companion App for MATLAB (2012b or later).  Based on four Chapter 2 walk through tutorials, the goal is to design a geostationary spacecraft, maintaining an exact orbital position, delivering a -126 dB in the Ku band, and 7 year lifetime. The GUI allows us…

  • Europa Report

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    Michael Paluszek
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    Europa Report is a movie about a human mission to Europa, a moon of Jupiter, to explore the moon for signs of life. Europa has an oxygen atmosphere and a surface composed of water ice that has led to the hypothesis that there is an ocean under the ice. Europa Report does a great job…

  • IR Imaging with the Spacecraft Control Toolbox

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    Amanda Knutson
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    Many spacecraft are incorporating cameras, both visible and IR, to image other nearby objects. These may be other satellites or space debris. This blog entry shows how you can simulate imaging with the Spacecraft Control Toolbox. In this simulation a target 1U CubeSat is illuminated by several sources of radiant flux and imaged by a…

  • SCT Seminar – Sheffield UK

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    Amanda Knutson
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    Yosef and Amanda are giving a seminar on our Spacecraft Control Toolbox in Sheffield, England on October 1, 2013. This event has been arranged through our UK distributors, MeadoTech Ltd. A big thank you goes out to Dr. Mohamed Mahmoud and Ruth Jenkinson! Check out what our MATLAB toolboxes have to offer! Core Control Toolbox…

  • PSS MATLAB Toolbox Tutorial Videos

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    Amanda Knutson
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    Over the summer we worked on developing some videos to help customers get started using our MATLAB products. Our MIT intern, James Slonaker, did a fabulous job! Come check out our Toolbox Tutorial Videos on our YouTube Channel! http://www.youtube.com/user/PSSToolboxVideos. If you have any feedback or suggestions for future content, please contact us at info@test.psatellite.com.

  • New PSS MATLAB Product – Core Control Toolbox

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    Amanda Knutson
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    We have just released our new MATLAB product – the Core Control Toolbox (CCT). We created the Core Control Toolbox as a base product for those customers who may have interests outside of aircraft and spacecraft modeling and simulation. It features many of the general purpose functions found in our Spacecraft Control Toolbox. Like all…

  • Next Stop….Enceladus!

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    Amanda Knutson
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    In October of 1997, the Cassini spacecraft launched on a mission to explore the depths of the Saturnian system. After traveling over 3.5 billion km, the orbiter set out to discover more about the composition and features of Saturn, study its rings and satellites, and investigate the magnetic environment. Flash forward to 2013, Cassini is…

  • New Attitude Profiling Functions and Visualization in SCT v11

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    Amanda Knutson
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    Creating attitude profiles just got easier! Satellites typically have multiple antennas and sensors that must be pointed in different directions at various times. We often want to point a sensor payload or a directional antenna at a certain location on Earth, while keeping the solar panels aligned with the sun and aiming the star camera…

  • Toolbox Release!

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    Amanda Knutson
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    We will release SCT 11 and ACT 5 this week! New features in SCT include tools for attitude profiling and visualization, libration point orbits and transfers, image analysis functions, brushless DC motor functions, updated Kalman Filters and smoothers, and a new UKF-compatible sensor suite.

  • Getting Started with the CubeSat Toolbox

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    admin
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    The CubeSat toolbox is a set of MATLAB functions, including a subset of the Spacecraft Control Toolbox, designed to facilitate CubeSat design. The best place to start is to run the example scripts in CubeSat/Demos, including AttitudeProfileDemo, OrbitAndSensorConeAnimation, CubeSatSimulation, and TwoSpacecraftOrbitSimulation. Contact us for your free demo today!