These modules add subsystem analysis capability to the toolbox. The link module provides basic radio frequency and optical link calculations. You can generate link budgets for optical communication systems, compute the noise temperature of a planet for use in link budgets, and perform bit error probability calculations. The propulsion module provides models for electric and chemical propulsion systems and launch vehicle analysis. The thermal module contains functions for analyzing the thermal behavior of a spacecraft including visualization of the temperature distribution of a spacecraft in orbit.
Resources
Key Features
Link
- Link budgets for spacecraft to spacecraft and spacecraft to ground communication
- Noise models including receivers, rain, sky, sun and moon
- Optical background noise
- Radar and ladar analysis
Propulsion
- Electric propulsion system optimization
- Multistage rocket analysis
- Solid rocket dynamics model
- Blowdown propulsion system design tools
- Plume analysis
- Nuclear thermal propulsion analysis
- Launch vehicle analysis
Thermal
- Thermal radiation analysis
- Thermal dynamics simulation
- Thermal network analysis
- Thermal equilibrium calculations including radiation and conductive heat transfer using MATLAB®'s powerful sparse matrix functions
- Thermal properties
- Thermal image modeling
