Spacecraft.Longitude Property

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Description

The Longitude property is the longitude of the Spacecraft sub-satellite point in the Spherical Lat/Long Element set. It is defined as the angle between the prime meridian and the projection of the position vector onto the fundamental plane of the Body-Fixed coordinate system of the central body. It is measured as increasing in a counterclockwise sense when viewed from the North Pole, thus producing the longitude east from the prime meridian. This property returns a scalar value.

Timing Precision Mode

This page describes functionality in millisecond timing precision mode. Millisecond timing precision mode is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. We recommend that you migrate your Mission Plans to nanosecond timing precision mode.

Click here to see the documentation for this object in nanosecond timing precision mode.

Attributes

Type:	number
Access:	read/write
Units:	deg
Default Value:	19.3956740264304
Valid Range:	0 ≤ Spacecraft.Longitude ≤ 360

Syntax

myVariable1 = mySpacecraft1.Longitude;

mySpacecraft1.Longitude = myVariable1;