Spacecraft.Cd Property

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Description

The Coefficient of Drag is a property that is a function of the properties and shape of the spacecraft's area incident to the velocity direction. It is used in the calculation of the force on the spacecraft due to atmospheric Drag.

Timing Precision Mode

This page describes functionality in millisecond timing precision mode. Millisecond timing precision mode is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. We recommend that you migrate your Mission Plans to nanosecond timing precision mode.

Click here to see the documentation for this object in nanosecond timing precision mode.

Attributes

Type:	number
Access:	read/write
Default Value:	2.2

Syntax

myVariable1 = mySpacecraft1.Cd;

mySpacecraft1.Cd = myVariable1;