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Volume 10, 2018
Progress in Flight Dynamics, Guidance, Navigation, and Control – Volume 10
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| Page(s) | 179 - 198 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/eucass/201810179 | |
| Published online | 08 June 2018 | |
Coupled simulation of the propulsion system and vehicle using the ESPSS satellite library
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KopooS Consulting Ind. 57 rue d’Amsterdam, Paris 75008, France
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Empresarios Agrupados 3 c/Magallanes, Madrid 28015, Spain
The paper documents the implementation and validation of the coupled simulation of the propulsion system and vehicle performed during the 4th development phase of the ESPSS (European Space Propulsion System Simulation) library running on the existing platform EcosimPro®. This covers a significant update of the spacecraft propulsion system modeling: the Fluid flow, Tanks and Combustion chamber components are updated to allow coupling to the vehicle’s motion, the Archimedes pressure coming from acceleration and rotations given by the vehicle or by any perturbation forces are taken into account, several new features are added to the Satellite library along with new components enabling full attitude control of a platform. A new powerful compact equation is presented for solving elegantly the Archimedes pressure coming from combined acceleration and rotation in the most general case (noncollinear). Eventually, a propulsion system is modeled to check the correct implementation of the new components especially those dealing with the effects of the mission on the propulsion subsystem.
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