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Satellite Path Planner: avoids looking at the sun and tries to maximize the time we spend observing the cusp
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possible coordinate mismatch between tsyganenko cusp, niehof dipole tilt, and gmat satellite orbit path #2

Closed fsbr closed 7 years ago

fsbr commented 7 years ago

The tsyganenko paper uses the Gsm? coordinate system. Niehof's dipole tilt function returns the Gsm cooridnates GMAT simulation returns GSE coordinates.

  1. rectify this difference by rerunning the GMAT simulations
  2. ensure that the paper writup accurately describes what these coordinate frames representing.
fsbr commented 7 years ago

the offending lines of code are 16-19 of cuspAnalyze.py