SEET Vehicle Temperature
Computes the vehicle temperature considering incident sunlight heating, earth albedo, earth thermal radiation, and internal dissipation.Available for these objects: LaunchVehicle, Missile, Satellite
Type: Time-varying data. Supports Temperature for use with EOIR.
Availability: Reports | Graphs | Dynamic Displays | Strip Charts
Data Provider Elements
| Name | Dimension | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Date | Real Number or Text | Time. |
| Temperature | Temperature | Real Number | Vehicle temperature, computed assuming thermal equilibrium. Thus, the temperature is an instantaneous steady-state measure that ignores any thermal transients. |
| Solar Flux | PowerFluxDensity | Real Number | The solar flux at the location of the vehicle, a measure of the energy impinging the spacecraft from the Sun. The reported value does not consider any eclipsing. |
| Solar Intensity | Percent | Real Number | The portion of the solar disk not currently occulted. |