Spacecraft.CentralBody Property

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Description

Name of the body that defines the origin of the Spacecraft's position and velocity. This can be a user-defined CelestialObject or one of the following pre-defined bodies:

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune

Pluto

Moon

Sun

In order to translate the origin of a Spacecraft's state to a different central body, simply change the Spacecraft.CentralBody property.

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:	string
Access:	read/write
Default Value:	"Earth"

Syntax

myString1 = mySpacecraft1.CentralBody;

mySpacecraft1.CentralBody = myString1;