Simulate Single Rail Button Flight Phase

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Next generation High-Power Rocketry 6-DOF Trajectory Simulation

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Simulate Single Rail Button Flight Phase #28

Open giovaniceotto opened 5 years ago

giovaniceotto commented 5 years ago

The current Flight simulation does not take into account the fact the for a very short amount of time, a high powered rocket is guided through the launch rail with a single rail button, after the first has already cleared the rail. Under this condition, the rocket displays a planar motion, with 3 degrees of freedom.

This should be implemented as a new flight phase due to its importance to dynamic stability when the rocket is clearing the rail.

giovaniceotto commented 5 years ago

Working on it in the rail_buttons branch.