Thruster.DutyCycle Property

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Description

The percentage of on-time of the thruster during a burn. This property scales the mass depletion and the acceleration due to thrust.

 

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:

1.0

Valid Range:

0 ≤ Thruster.DutyCycle ≤ 1

 

Syntax

myVariable1 = myThruster1.DutyCycle;

 

myThruster1.DutyCycle = myVariable1;

 

See also

Thruster Object

Thrusters Guide