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- Spacecraft Name
- Ulysses
- COSPAR ID
- 1990-090B
- Launch Date
- 1990-10-06
- Spacecraft Description
- N/A
Thermal Analysis
- Analysis Object
- System
- Analysis Description
- The Ulysses thermal model was developed in the 1980s as a 400-node SINDA model on a VAX platform, for evaluating steady state solutions.
Due to the limitations of the VAX system, it was decided to migrate the thermal model to PC-based thermal code, ESATAN.
- Software Used
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References
- Bishop et al. (2005)
Bishop, S and Castro, F and Goulding, C and Presti, D and Woodcock, A., "Implementation and validation of a PC based ESATAN model for the Ulysses spacecraft", 16th Annual Thermal and Fluids Analysis Workshop, 2005.