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SDT 3.0 | Spacecraft Design Tool
Star Technologies has developed the Spacecraft Design Tool (SDT), a state-of-the
art high delity dynamic simulation tool that provides both simulation and
real-time data display capabilities.
SDT is the first product developed on Star Technologies’ open framework platform
for dynamic simulations. Built using the Microsoft® .Net Framework, SDT enables
users to rapidly design a complete spacecraft, including sensors, actuators, and
attitude determination and control systems (ADAC S). Customers will never feel
“locked-in” by a proprietary scripting language again.
SDT provides a true software Plug-&-Play (PnP) environment where the user can
seamlessly inherit properties from within SDT as well as add their own component
or subsystem capabilities such as complex propulsion or electrical power
subsystems. All facets of 6DoF spacecraft dynamics are considered, including
environmental impacts on performance.
SDT is in all test cells of AFRL’s Responsive Space Testbed simulatingTacSat2 and
PnPSat1.
Technical Features:
ATTITUDE
SDT natively provides high fidelity 6DoF spacecraft attitude dynamics in its
standard package.
VISUALIZATION
3D visualization is rendered using Microsoft® XNA technology.
SCRIPTING
Utilizing the Microsoft® .Net Framework allows for over 40 standard programming
languages to be used to communicate with SDT, including: C#, C++, FORTRAN , ADA,
Javascript. No more proprietary scripting languages!
PnP COMPONENTS
SDT is a component-based architecture which can load component models such as
actuators, sensors, electrical, propulsion, and others to dynamically configure
the spacecraft at runtime.
COMPATIBILITY
SDT can integrate with virtually any external program; thermal, structural, and
optics modeling tools, including connectivity to MATLA B® right out of the box.
EASE OF USE
The entire SDT interface is drag-and-drop. Work with the Data Dictionary, insert
a strip chart, develop a customized instrumentation panel, create spacecraft and
physics objects all using our intuitive drag-and-drop interface.
REAL-TIME I/O
SDT includes a Real-time messaging manager which supports any type of
communications input, including bi-directional telemetry and ground station
support. Even more exciting, SDT interacts in real-time with
hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL).
TRAINING
Thanks to SDT’s flexibility, compatibility, and ease of use combined with
communications links to real hardware, trainers finally have everything they
need.