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Complex program models everything on user-defined space station, from control gyros to mass effect of astronaut moving along strut. Other features include plume impingement, attitude control, propellant slosh, docking, and gravity.
SPASIS is computer program for simulation of orbits around Earth in six degrees of freedom. Developed to investigate orbital dynamics of spacecraft designed by users. SPASIS is user-friendly, menu-driven program and contains many features relevant to current and advanced space systems. During each orbit assortment of data available for output, all under control of user. Written entirely in FORTRAN 77.