DSENDS: Multi-Mission Flight Dynamics Simulator for NASA Missions

Increasingly complex space missions require powerful and flexible simulation environments in order to design, analyze, and operate the missions. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has created the DSENDS simulation environment that addresses these needs for a wide range of space missions. In this paper, we describe the DSENDS simulation environment and the key architectural components that make DSENDS a useful simulation and analysis framework. We also overview a variety of NASA missions and flight experiments that are using DSENDS.

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