Various methods can be used to obtain information on the performance of aerospace vehicles. These include analytical estimates, computer simulations, laboratory tests, and flight-tests. Simple analytical techniques provide estimates of vehicle performance characteristics, but the detailed interactions of subsystems are difficult or impossible to predict accurately by simple analytical means. The most credible means is flight-testing, but it is also the most costly. Although laboratory testing provides credible information but it is restricted mainly to subsystem evaluation. Between the extremes of low-cost, low-credibility analytical methods and high-cost, high-credibility testing methods is a gap filled by computer simulation. Simulation can play the main role in the design of the vehicle, modification and performance analysis and will result in saving time and reducing costs. In this paper, mathematical modelling and design of multipurpose software for simulation of a space access vehicle 6DoF (six-degree-of-freedom) trajectory is developed.
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