Compute Aerospace Environment

Calculate environment properties for aerospace vehicle analysis: atmosphere, gravity, wind, magnetic field, geoid, space weather, planetary ephemeris, and Earth orientation using Aerospace Toolbox functions.

When to Use

• Computing atmospheric properties (temperature, pressure, density, speed of sound)
• Calculating gravity vectors or acceleration for any planet
• Modeling horizontal wind at altitude
• Getting magnetic field components for navigation or compass correction
• Computing geoid height or geocentric radius
• Reading space weather data for NRLMSISE-00 inputs
• Computing planet or Moon positions (ephemeris)
• Getting Earth orientation parameters (polar motion, nutation, UT1-UTC, CIP)
• Any prompt mentioning: atmosphere model, ISA, COESA, NRLMSISE, pressure, temperature, density, speed of sound, gravity model, WGS84, wind model, HWM, magnetic model, WMM, IGRF, geoid, space weather, solar flux, F10.7, Ap index, planet ephemeris, Moon position, Earth nutation, polar motion, UT1, IERS

When NOT to Use