Flight Dynamics
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| Last Updated | 10/12/2025, 12:48:54 PM |
| Last Author | Kai Berszin |
Flight Dynamics
Flight dynamics includes orbit determination, orbit propagation, and event scheduling.
Mission Operations Flight Dynamics Pipeline
The SAGE Mission Operations team is responsible for developing and maintaining an end-to-end flight dynamics pipeline. This pipeline ingests TLE data from space-track.org and/or GPS from SAGE and laser ranging data and uses this data to perform orbit determination and, subsequently, simulate SAGE's orbit for the next block of time (e.g., 1 day). The propagated orbit is used to generate a schedule for the next block of time; the generated schedule is tested with the digital twin and (if no errors are raised) passed up to the satellite.
Changelog
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| 2025/02/21 | 01 | Initial commit. |