Global Positioning System

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Class in Zendir.Classes | Inherits from UniverseSystem

Declaration

class GlobalPositioningSystem;

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Description

The GPS (global positioning system) constellation system is able to provide positioning information about a particular constellation of GPS spacecraft that are initialised.

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Properties

Declared	Description
ActiveSatellites	A list of active satellites based on a flag. This will be used to determineif the satellite is active or not. By disabling some satellites, the GPSposition may become inaccurate.
FilePath	The file path for the GPS constellation data.
IsInitialised	A flag whether the data has been loaded. This will ensure that on a newserialization, the data is reloaded.
NumSatellites	The total number of satellites that are available in the network.

Inherited	Description
IsEnabled	Is true if the object is currently enabled.
Name	The display name or tag of this object.

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Methods

Declared	Description
Clear	Clears the GPS system and removes all spacecraft points from the currentlist of positions.
Initialise	Loads the GPS constellation from a TLE lookup file, which will load in allthe TLEs and create the transmitters associated with the GPS constellation.

Inherited	Description
Destroy	Removes the current object from the simulation.