Spacecraft.Bstar Property |
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DescriptionThis property has been Deprecated. Please use Spacecraft.SGP4.Bstar instead.
A special "drag" term associated with the Norad SGP4/SDP4 propagators. It measured in units of 1/earth radii and is related to the Spacecraft's Cd. It is obtained by having FreeFlyer import the NORAD Two-Line Element (TLE) state vector. It is also computed by FreeFlyer when a conversion from Cartesian elements to Norad element is invoked.
B* is calculated as follows:
Where:
Timing Precision Mode This page describes functionality in millisecond timing precision mode.
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See also Coverage and Contact Analysis Guide
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