Introducing MDS v1.4.0. Faster & Smarter Constellations Design
We’re excited to release MDS v1.4.0, bringing powerful new capabilities to satellite mission design, constellation analysis, and ops so you can iterate faster and make better decisions.
What’s new:
- TUDAT orbit propagation – fully customizable state of the art astrodynamics models for highly precise orbits in robust mission modeling.
- Constellation coverage & ground access time – evaluate and compare key performance metrics early in the design process.
- Orbit monitor & station-keeping – impose constraints on monitored satellites to maintain desired orbit behaviors.
- TLE ingestion & (experimental) TLE generation – seamlessly load and create TLE-format compliant orbit messages.
- Complete Ground assets control– add/remove ground-based asset, configure movement velocity and position for richer scenarios.
- More configurable vehicle properties – updatable drag and SRP coefficients, reference area
- WGS84 Earth Ellipsoidal model – more precise Earth-surface calculations and conversions.
- Planetary axes – better orientate yourself with ICRF and TIRF axes when designing a mission
- LTAN calculation
- Camera modelling improvements – lens flare, aberration, granularity for MC involving the visual feed.
- Seamless MDS-python time synchronization– sync python with MDS internal propagation
MDS v1.4.0 accelerates design-to-ops workflows – giving engineering and operations teams the precision, visibility, and control they need to build and scale modern space systems.
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