The MSA toolkit is the repository in which the codes implemented by the Mission Analysis team are stored. It is composed by several folders that will be briefly introduced in the following paragraphs.
This is a code developed in MATLAB for the simulation of 6 d.o.f. rocket dynamics during all phases of flight: thrust, coast, apogee and recovery.
It predicts 3D trajectory, apogee height, forces acting on the rockets, and various other aerodynamics data.
This simulator can also compute stochastic simulations with multiple options.
Folder with the current flight data, rocket geometry and simulation parameters.
In this folder, the common functions employed in the codes of the toolkit are stored.
This code allows an automatic computation of the rocket aerodynamic coefficientsusing Missile DATCOM, for different aerobrakes configuration.
This is a code which implements an aerodynamics optimization of the rocket.
The rocket is optimized to reach the higher apogee possible with the chosen set of fixed parameters.
The code uses the genetic algorithm to reach the aim. It takes a few hours to run, be patient.
This is a code developed for a primary apogee analysis with different motors when the structural mass is only known with a degree of uncertainty. The simulator computes the different apogees, maximum accelerations and launchpad exit velocities for different motors and different masses.
This code implements a sensitivity analysis on the ascent phase of the rocket. Two types of analysis are available: deterministic and stochastic.
In the deterministic analysis it is possible to vary the nominal values of the aerodynamics coefficients and the structural mass of the rocket.
The relative magnitude of the variations is set by the user and it is the same for all the parameters considered in the analysis.
In the stochastic analysis several simulations are performed, in each of these the uncertain parameters assume values according to a normal distribution centered on their respective nominal values.
Although the most important folders are in the main path, this folder contains work-alone tools, and some useful scripts.