Spacecraft.Longitude Property

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Description

The Longitude property is the longitude of the Spacecraft sub-satellite point in the Spherical Lat/Long Element set. It is defined as the angle between the prime meridian and the projection of the position vector onto the fundamental plane of the Body-Fixed coordinate system of the central body. It is measured as increasing in a counterclockwise sense when viewed from the North Pole, thus producing the longitude east from the prime meridian. This property returns a scalar value.

 

Timing Precision Mode

This page describes functionality in nanosecond timing precision mode.

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Attributes

Type:

number

Access:

read/write

Units:

deg

Default Value:

19.3956740264304

Valid Range:

0 ≤ Spacecraft.Longitude ≤ 360

 

Syntax

myVariable1 = mySpacecraft1.Longitude;

 

mySpacecraft1.Longitude = myVariable1;

 

See also

Spacecraft Object

Spacecraft Propagation Guide

Coverage and Contact Analysis Guide