Spacecraft attitude modes, visualization, and export
Define, visualize, and export your spacecraft's attitude
Your spacecraft's orientation is now a first-class part of the platform. Choose how each spacecraft points from five built-in modes — Earth-pointing, Sun-pointing, velocity-tracking, inertial-pointing, and free drift — or define your own custom modes, then schedule transitions between them over time. A dedicated attitude workspace plots the resulting quaternions and Euler angles, and you can import or export a complete attitude profile as a CCSDS AEM file to exchange with other ground systems. Attitude feeds the physics too — when a spacecraft has a defined attitude profile, atmospheric drag and solar radiation pressure are computed against how it is actually oriented.
Improvements
- Operator-typed drag and SRP areas — set each spacecraft's atmospheric-drag and solar-radiation-pressure cross-sections directly, in square metres, instead of relying on a single derived effective-area value. The two areas are entered independently on the spacecraft's Platform settings and feed straight into orbit predictions.
Fixes
- Conjunctions — conjunction cards and the alert timeline no longer break when an alert's miss distance is missing or non-numeric; the value is now omitted cleanly instead of erroring the view.
- State vector import — when an import is rejected, the error notification now shows the specific reason returned by the platform instead of a generic failure message.
- Spacecraft selectors — the spacecraft filter and picker dropdowns now cap their height and scroll on long fleets, and behave consistently everywhere they appear.
