Spacecraft.DragArea Property

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Description

The Drag Area is the incident cross sectional area 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 nanosecond timing precision mode.

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Attributes

Type:	number
Access:	read/write
Units:	m2
Default Value:	1.0
Valid Range:	Spacecraft.DragArea ≥ 0

Syntax

myVariable1 = mySpacecraft1.DragArea;

mySpacecraft1.DragArea = myVariable1;