SUNLIGHT EDITOR
To specify the “Sunlight” application-related input, the user opens a *.sunlight-file in the Sunlight editor shown in the figure on the right-hand side.
The Sunlight editor contains three pages:
Sun and Planet
Parameters for the sun and the planet which the spacecraft is orbiting, in particular, the user sets here how solar radiation behaves, the place where it is emitted (sun) and reflected (planet).
Ray-Tracing and Thermo optical properties
Enable Sunlight to consider temperature and wavelength dependencies. Ray-tracing parameters are necessary for the ray-tracing algorithm that calculates the radiative flux on the geometry.
Analysis
Definition of the sources of radiation (e.g. direct sun, indirect planet albedo, etc.) and to set output options for the analysis.
