CubeSat

Generic CubeSat

Since R2024a

Description

CubeSat is one of the spacecraft that you can use within the 3D simulation environment. The Aerospace Blockset™ supports a CubeSat that represents a 3U-sized satellite, with the origin at its center. This environment is rendered using the Unreal Engine^® from Epic Games^®. For detailed views of the CubeSat, see Views.

To add this type of vehicle to the 3D simulation environment:

1. Add a Simulation 3D Spacecraft block to your Simulink^® model.

2. In the Block Parameters dialog box, on the Parameters tab, set the Type parameter to CubeSat.

3. Set the Initial translation (m) and Initial rotation (rad) parameters to an array size that matches the CubeSat spacecraft, for example, zeros(10,3).

Size

These are the unscaled sizes of the generic CubeSat mesh.

Parameter	Value
Length (m)	0.100
Width (m)	0.100
Height (m)	0.340
Length with Solar Arrays Open (m)	0.468

Views

Top-down view — CubeSat top-down view

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Left side view — CubeSat left side view

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Right side view — CubeSat right side view

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Front view — CubeSat front view

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Back view — CubeSat back view

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Bottom view — CubeSat bottom view

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Skeleton

CubeSat Skeleton

The CubeSat skeleton has these parts.

• CubeSat

  • ANTENNA1

  • ANTENNA2

  • ANTENNA3

  • SENSOR

  • SOLAR_ARRAY1

    • SOLAR_ARRAY1_1

  • SOLAR_ARRAY2

    • SOLAR_ARRAY2_2

  • THRUSTER

Version History

Introduced in R2024a