Systema overview

Integrated solutions for Space Engineering

March 2021
 •A multidiscipline solution to support space systems
engineering

•Offering a wide scope of applications and ensuring the sharing of data

and models along the design

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 Overview
• Strong need to support space related analyses

• System analysis software development started with ESA and CNES more than 20 years ago

• Systema development company funding for more than 15 years

• Experience on observation and scientific spacecraft (BepiColombo, Mars-Express, Gaia…) and telecommunication

• spacecraft (Direct TV, ASTRA, Intelsat, Inmarsat...)

• Development of new version (Systema V4) initiated in 2006

• Regular improvements and new applications developments

• Software distribution (Thermica, Dosrad …) for more than 15 years

• A worldwide community of users of the different applications (Europe, US, Japan, China, Korea, Russia…) including
the main prime contractors and agencies
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 Key features

Interactive
An open and A set of toolboxes to
Open

evolutionary define
framework the analysis scenario
engineering

disciplinary
A multidisciplinary
A set of engineering
Space

Multi
model
applications
description to support
to support design
concurrent engineering

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 A multidisciplinary solution
Applications

Electro- Thermics
magnetism Propulsion
Fluid
dynamics Power

Radiations
RF
Geometry Mission Trajectory

Properties Kinematics
Space
environment Environment
SYSTEMA Network

2D Schematics
3D Video

User interface

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Typical Systema process

Analysis and results postpro

SC mission

CAE model

CAD geometry
 Systema geometry
• Import CAD or mechanical models (Nastran)
• CAD model simplification
• Create models
• Manage shells and volumes
• Set application properties
• Define and control surfaces meshing
• Manage material files
• Define non geometrical parameters
• Display results
• Model scripting

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 Systema trajectory
• Manage solar system planets

• Define Keplerian orbits

• Import general trajectory

• Define planet base or rover mission

• Visualize eclipse phases

• Display trajectory characteristics

• Animate whole spacecraft trajectory

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 Systema kinematics
• Generic kinematics definition

• Define kinematics tree

• Specify joints between objects

• Set orientation of the main body

• Define moving bodies

• Set pointing laws

• Import general kinematics

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 Systema mission
• Assemble model, trajectory and kinematics

• Define and sequences kinematics phases

• Animate the spacecraft in the solar system

• Define computation points

• Display mission parameters (misalignment…)

• Manage timeline

• Display and animate results

• Export images and videos

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 Systema processing
• Define the computation case

• Chain several computation modules

• Set run parameters

• Launch computation

• Batch execution

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 Systema post-processing

A dedicated tab for post-processing is available:

• It allows the user to perform its own post-processing of the Systema results:
– Definition of group of nodes
– Computation of min / max / average over of group of nodes
– Difference or addition of results on nodes
– Comparison between results on nodes
– Computation on flux and power budget
for thermal analysis

• All the post-processing toolboxes are in Python

• The user can code its own post-processing toolboxes
• Results can be exported in csv (for Excel…) or h5 format (for Systema)
• 2D and 3D outputs from the post-processing can be displayed in Systema

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 Systema V4 applications

V4 applications:

• Thermica: integrated thermal chain: radiation, conduction, convection, temperature

• Power: enables the modelling of power systems and the simulation of the power performances
• Dosrad: radiation dose computation
• GTD: Antenna patterns / coupling / field mapping: General Theory of Diffraction
• Plume: plume impingement analysis
• Debris: debris and micrometeoroids impacts
• Outgassing: contamination by material outgassing

Some of the applications listed above may be subject to export restriction

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 Thermica V4

Thermica is an integrated thermal chain used for the design of the thermal control
• In feasibility studies
• For technological choices (e.g.: passive or active controls)
• During correlation with test predictions
Thermica computes
• Thermal radiation exchanges with space and between surfaces
• External fluxes: Sun, Earth Albedo, Earth infra-red emission
• Thermal conduction in structures
• Temperatures calculation : Thermisol
Advanced features
• Solar system management: flux, albedo and planets model
• Dependent properties: wavelengths, incidence

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 Thermica V4

Mirror temperature
Solar Fluxes on Telecommunication
satellite

Temperatures
Curves & Tables

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 Power V4

- Enables the modelling of power systems and the simulation

of the power performances: battery state of charge…
- Relies on the advanced Systema-Thermica algorithms: ray-
tracing, numerical solver (Thermisol)…
- Power architecture defined with an interactive schematics
editor combining electrical, thermal and logical networks of
components
- Generic components available in the schematics tab:
voltage source, resistance, capacitance, solar array, Power schematic diagram
battery…
- User can program his own components using MORTRAN
and C and reuse them for further analyses via the Graphical
User Interface
 Power V4

Power schematic diagram

Solar flux (left scale) and battery
charge (right scale)

Solar array temperature evolution

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 Dosrad V4

Dosrad computes the radiation dose received by electronic components or material when exposed to the environment

Dose integration performed by an efficient solid angle sectoring analysis:

• Rays are traced from the dose point outwards through the spacecraft
• For each ray, the amount of shielding encountered is determined taking into account the material density
• From the dose depth curve, the weighted dose contribution is calculated
• The average doses per mesh and then per face are obtained

Surfaces with thickness or volumes

Computation: equipment dose/shielding, component dose, dose mapping

Advanced features; honeycomb management, rays display

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Dosrad V4

Dose cartography on a satellite wall

Rays display

Shielding of
equipments
 Plume V4

The thruster flow may impinge spacecraft surfaces

It is necessary to evaluate the effects of the thruster plume:

• During the spacecraft design
• During the spacecraft life for propellant budget evaluation

Systema-Plume computes the impact of thruster flow field on a geometry:

• Dynamic perturbations (perturbing forces and torques)
• Heat flux (convective or radiative)
• Surfaces contamination and degradation
It is done in a two steps approach:
• Computation of the undisturbed flow field from the thruster chamber to the far field
• Evaluation of impacts on a 3D geometry:
• Gas
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 Plume V4

Thruster flow field

Pressure distribution on the solar array

of an observation satellite

Thermal fluxes on a complete model of a

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 GTD V4

The structure may disturb the RF properties of antennas

• TTC antenna patterns,
• Side lobes level
• Cross polarization level
• Antenna to antenna coupling
• Radiated EMC compatibility
Systema-GTD modeling approach
• Based on General / Unified Theory of Diffraction (GTD / UTD)
• Using an efficient ray-tracing methodology to handle complex geometries
• Valid if the objects are larger than the wavelength
Computation of
• Far field antenna characteristics
• Coupling between antennae
• Mapping of electric field
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 GTD V4

Electric field Computation

Far Field Results

Ray Display

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 Debris V4

Debris and micrometeoroids may impact spacecraft elements leading:

• Penetration of the external walls
• Penetration of internal equipments
• Cratering of surfaces (mirror, solar array)

Systema-Debris modeling approach

• Environment described by standard STENVI file
• Impacted surfaces computed by ray-tracing taking into account shadowing
• Several ballistic limit equations available: single wall, multiple walls, SRL
• Crater size equations to compute crater depth and diameter

Computation of
• Number of impacts/penetrations on a meshed surface
• Probability of No-Penetration of selected elements
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 Debris V4

Probability of penetration in internal

Space debris environment (STENVI file)
equipments

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 Outgassing V4

In vacuum, the coatings and materials may outgas contaminants species

The objective of the Outgassing software is to evaluate the deposit of contaminants on the spacecraft surfaces, such as
mirror, thermal coatings… as function of time

The calculation proceeds in two main steps

• Computation of the mass transfer factors between surfaces using Monte-Carlo method
• Time integration of the deposit

Computation of the direct mass transfer:

• Advanced ray-tracing solver
• Multi-threaded
• Management of all the shell shapes of the V4 including boolean shapes
• Display of mass transfer factors on the 3D models
• Display of rays contributing to the mass transfer factors

Computation of the deposits:

• Multi-threading (by species) of the deposits computation
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 Outgassing V4

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 Systema V3 applications

V3 environment:

• Available on Windows (commercial package Exceed is mandatory), Linux and Unix

• Limited capabilities for model generation and mission definition

V3 applications:

• Atomox: erosion by atomic oxygen

• Perturbations: air drag, solar pressure, gravity gradient, magnetic moment

Some of the applications listed above may be subject to export restriction

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 Atomox V3

At altitudes between 200 km and 700 km, the residual atmosphere consists primarily of atomic oxygen (AO)

The orbiting motion through this atmospheric AO can generate a flux

The incident AO can lead to oxidation and erosion of outer materials and to degradation of surface properties

The Systema – Atomox computes the fluence of atomic oxygen and the induced erosion taking into account:
• Standard environment models
• Thermal motion
• Multiple reflections
• Real kinematics of the satellite

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 Atomox V3

Erosion level on a telescope

Atomic oxygen : influence of solar activity

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 Perturbations V3

Requirement of an accurate knowledge of the perturbations for

• on-orbit control (maintain the orbit parameters)
• attitude control (maintain the orientation of cameras, antennas …)
• sizing of thrusters, momentum wheel, tanks, attitude control laws

Perturbations computes
• air drag (residual atmosphere for low orbiting spacecraft)
• solar pressure (photon flux)
• Earth albedo and infra-red radiation pressure (photon flux)
• thermal imbalances (induced by spacecraft photons emission)
• gravity gradient (Earth gravitation generating a torque)
• magnetic moment (Earth magnetic field generating a torque)

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 Perturbations V3

Spacecraft model

Air drag forces on LEO satellite

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 Release policy / services
Release policy
• About one major releases per year including new features / applications
Two versions in parallel:
• Long term support (LTS): 4.8.3
• Based on the functional scope of Systema 4.8.3
• Offers stability
• Release of patches if needed
• Last release: Systema 4.8.3p1 in September 2019
• Short term support (STS): 4.9.X…
• Integrates major improvements
• Next release: Systema 4.9.0 planed in S1-2020
Operating systems
• Available on Windows and Linux systems in 64 bits
• License control: floating with a license server
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 Systema distribution

Hirain Technologies
Systema
Distribution in China
Airbus DS
Development Sojitz Aerospace
Distribution worldwide Systema
MSC Software Distribution in Japan
MSC Thermica
Distribution worldwide AbleMax
Systema
Distribution in Korea

Eccitare Tech
Systema
Distribution in India

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Visit our web site :

www.systema.airbusdefenceandspace.com

Contact: engineering.software@airbus.com

Hot line: +33 (0)5 31 96 80 00

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