Anyone ever have any success simulating the Near-rectilinear halo orbit that Gateway will be utilizing? I honestly don't understand how to work that one out in Orbiter.
Keep in mind that Orbiter only simulates the zonal not the sectoral/tesseral nonspherical perturbations, so the results you would get propagating in Orbiter will differ from GMAT, etc.
Anyone ever have any success simulating the Near-rectilinear halo orbit that Gateway will be utilizing? I honestly don't understand how to work that one out in Orbiter.
Keep in mind that Orbiter only simulates the zonal not the sectoral/tesseral nonspherical perturbations, so the results you would get propagating in Orbiter will differ from GMAT, etc.
Yes, but you can tune GMAT propagator parameters close enough to the Orbiter propagator. So it gives good results for Orbiter too.
Try this, for example:
Code:
BEGIN_ENVIRONMENT
System Sol
Date MJD 60886.5011574074
END_ENVIRONMENT
BEGIN_FOCUS
Ship Lunar Gateway
END_FOCUS
BEGIN_SHIPS
Lunar Gateway:Deltaglider
STATUS Orbiting Moon
RPOS 237631.72375475 3220719.8053250 -383453.69682501
RVEL 442.0870387182 -183.9925418387 -1637.5750280889
END
END_SHIPS