Our Mission Analysis Software
Software for the analysis of missions with electrodynamic tether. The users provide basic data about their needs like spacecraft mass, orbits and objective to be achieved by using the electrodynamic tether (deorbiting, reboost, station-keeping and power harvesting).
Besides providinewg the optimal tether configuration (cathode technology and tether dimensions), BETsMA v2.0 provides a comprehensive set of results that include the evolution of the orbital parameters during the mission, electrical variables, forces, tether dynamic and thermal behaviour, and safety consideration.
The software is also a powerful tool for research because it can simulate three types of electrodynamic tethers (bare, low-work-function and bare-photovoltaic), with different dynamic models (point-like, multi-bar and multi-particle), and in a plethora of propulsive and power harvesting scenarios.