Spacecraft.LongitudeRate Property

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Description

Calculates the rate of change in longitude of the orbital plane in a Body-Fixed frame of reference. Computes the difference between the Spacecraft orbital period and the CentralBody's rotational period, and then maps the result to degrees of longitudinal drift per second. Typically this property is used to examine the rate of drift within a GEO stationkeeping box. Note that this property is only supported for built-in CelestialObjects.

Timing Precision Mode

This page describes functionality in nanosecond timing precision mode.

Attributes

Type:	number
Access:	read
Units:	deg/s

Syntax

myVariable1 = mySpacecraft1.LongitudeRate;