Aircraft: Solar Panel Angles
Data related to the area of the solar panels illuminated by the sun evaluated
for a set of possible incidence angles at a given time.
Type: Time-varying data
Availability: Reports
| Graphs
| Name | Dimension | Type | Description |
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| Angle | AngleUnit | Real Number | An angle from Vector Geometry Tool. Available angles are:
SEET_GeomagneticDeclination Angle - the dihedral angle between the north vector and the projection of the magnetic field vector in the local horizontal plane about the detic nadir vector;
SEET_GeomagneticInclination Angle - the angle between the magnetic field vector and the local horizontal plane;
SunMoon Angle - the angle between the apparent Sun and apparent Moon vectors;
VelocityAzimuth Angle - the dihedral angle from North to the velocity vector, measured about the detic nadir. The velocity vector is the velocity of the object as observed in the object's central body fixed coordinate system;
VertFlightPath Angle - the angle between the position and velocity vectors. |
| Area | Area | Real Number | Model area. |
| Effective Area | Area | Real Number | The solar panel area lit by the Sun and reduced by the cosine loss.
This area can be readily incorporated in power computations. |
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