Evaluation of Mission Electromagnetic Irradiation with ESABASE/SUNLIGHT 941352
ESABASE/SUNLIGHT is a software tool to calculate illumination, effective illumination, exposure time, incident electromagnetic power, absorbed electromagnetic energy for spacecraft surfaces during planet orbiting missions considering sun and planet irradiation, effects of eclipse and self-shading, multireflections, transmission, pointing and (variable) geometry.
Calculation applies a fast Monte Carlo raytracing algorithm and is based on wavelength dependent spectra and material properties.
ESABASE/SUNLIGHT is fully integrated in the CAE-frame ESABASE which offers a powerful geometry specification language, orbit generator, pointing facility and advanced libraries as well as gateway, pre-, postprocessing and display tools with the benefits of standardisation and exchange to other analysis tools.
Citation: Rosenthal, P., Keil, W., Bisanz, R., and Sorensen, J., "Evaluation of Mission Electromagnetic Irradiation with ESABASE/SUNLIGHT," SAE Technical Paper 941352, 1994, https://doi.org/10.4271/941352. Download Citation
Author(s):
P. Rosenthal, W. Keil, R. Bisanz, J. Sorensen
Affiliated:
Dornier GmbH, ESA-ESTEC
Pages: 11
Event:
International Conference On Environmental Systems
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Also in:
SAE 1994 Transactions: Journal of Aerospace-V103-1
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