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The Space Teams Platform for Research and Operations (PRO), developed at the Texas A&M ASTRO Lab & SimDynamX LLC, is a platform made for large scale engineering system design, integration and collaboration. It is a Virtual Reality 'Sandbox' environment designed to enable students, government and commercial entities to collaborate, design, evaluate and experience technology, to simulate and evaluate space system architectures. Space Teams aims to enable any person or institution to contribute to humanity’s future in space. Space Teams' simulation architecture allows for quick, modular integration of physical and analytical models of the simulated environment, engineering systems, and human-computer interfaces. These components can be integrated and tested within actual operational scenarios in a richly detailed VR space. Space Teams provides the physics and environment; you provide your designs.

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These pages will help you understand how certain aspects of Space Teams function.

The date next to the page is the last-edited date in YYYY/MM/DD format.

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Most Recent Additions/Changes

You can see the exact content of the change by clicking the __ revisions link next to the title on any page, and comparing the latest iteration with an earlier copy.

1. 2025/02/12 (Section) Use Cases
2. 2025/02/01 Logging & Error Handling
3. 2025/01/21 GMRAD Planet Rendering
4. 2025/01/21 The System
5. 2025/01/21 Importing 3D Models
6. 2025/01/02 Entity Types
7. 2025/01/02 The Entity / Entity Common Parameters

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• Pages with ⭐ next to them are "required reading" to work with Space Teams.

• Pages with ❌ next to them have not yet been written.
• Pages with 🚧 next to them need additional work.
• Pages with ☑️ next to them are likely to be in a good state, at least for the time of writing.
• Pages with ✅ next to them have been recently updated (~2 months).

Link to Video Tutorials ⭐

Note that almost always, the videos will be less up-to-date than the written documentation here. Also, take a look at errata notes here.

Installing Space Teams

1. ☑️ 2024/03/24 System Requirements
2. ☑️ 2024/01/30 Installation & Setup ⭐
3. ☑️ 2024/01/30 Starting your First Sim ⭐

The Fundamentals

Explanation of the building blocks of a Space Teams Platform simulation.

1. ☑️ 2024/11/11 How to Start a Sim ⭐
2. ✅ 2024/12/26 Space Teams Platform Simulation Structure ⭐
3. ✅ 2024/12/25 The Parameter ⭐
4. ✅ 2025/01/02 The Entity / Entity Common Parameters ⭐
5. ✅ 2025/01/02 Entity Types ⭐
6. 🚧 2025/01/21 The System ⭐
7. ☑️ 2024/08/03 The Sim Config ⭐
8. 🚧 2021/10/18 The Entity Config ⭐

Simulation Development Workflow

0. FAQ: Issues marked question and FAQ

General

1. ✅ 2025/02/01 Logging & Error Handling ⭐
2. ❌ 2023/00/00 Making Sim Configs ⭐
3. 🚧 2024/03/27 Sim Config Editor ⭐
4. 🚧 2025/01/21 Importing 3D Models
5. ❌ 2025/01/03 Catalog of Core Assets

Python

1. ☑️ 2024/11/11 Python Developer Setup
2. ☑️ 2024/06/18 Make a New Python System
3. ☑️ 2024/03/25 Python API Docs

C++

1. 🚧 2023/09/18 C++ Developer Setup
2. ❌ 2024/00/00 C++ API Docs

Dataset Import

1. ❌ 2025/00/00 GMRAD Raster Data Import

Physics and Propagation

Explanations of the methods and implementations of our physics and propagation (dynamics integration) systems.

1. ❌ 2025/00/00 Propagation Types
2. ☑️ 2024/03/18 Timekeeping
3. ☑️ 2023/10/19 ReferenceFrames ⭐

Use Cases

Explaining STP's capabilities and template projects for specific use cases.

1. 🚧 2025/00/00 General Visualization
2. 🚧 2025/00/00 Image Generation
3. 🚧 2025/00/00 Human-in-the-Loop Analysis and Training
4. ❌ 2025/00/00 Vehicle Flight Dynamics Design and Analysis
5. ❌ 2025/00/00 Sensor Simulation
6. ❌ 2025/00/00 Mission Operations Situational Awareness Digital Twin
7. ❌ 2025/00/00 Orbit Simulation & Maneuver Planning
8. ❌ 2025/00/00 Autonomous Robotics Simulation
9. ❌ 2025/00/00 Resource Flow & Multiphysics
10. ❌ 2025/00/00 Multi-Sim-Run, Monte Carlo, Machine Learning

Specific Domains

1. ❌ 2025/00/00 Lunar Lander Integrated Simulation
2. ❌ 2025/00/00 Robotic Planet Surface Operations

Verification & Validation

1. ❌ 2025/00/00 RigidBodyPropagator
2. ✅ 2025/01/21 GMRAD Planet Rendering

Publications / Theses

Various papers about Space Teams presented at technical conferences by ASTRO Lab & SimDynamX employees. Ordered most to least recent.

Note: Space Teams used to be called SpaceCRAFT.

1. 🚧 2025/01/22 W. Lee, A. Sein, C. Jakubik, G. Chamitoff, Celestial and Horizon Matching Navigation Techniques for Lunar Surface Operations, AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Kauai, Hawaii, January 19-23, 2025.
2. 🚧 2025/01/10 K. Vellore, H. Cervantes, G. Gray, I. El-Loubani, I. Orrego, G. Szot, N. Wigginton, B. Wilson, G. Chamitoff, Real-time Multi-regime Aerodynamic Modeling for Arbitrary Geometries in Planetary Atmospheric Flight, AIAA SciTech Conference, Orlando, FL, January 6-10, 2025.
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WIP conversion to new format

1. ❌ 2025/01/22 Celestial and Horizon Matching Navigation Techniques for Lunar Surface Operations (AAS/AIAA SFM 2025)
2. ☑️ 2024/03/03 Asynchronous Multiphysics for Spacecraft System Modeling and Simulation (IEEE Aero 2024)
3. ☑️ 2024/01/10 Exploring Interaction Modalities for Hands-Free Menu Navigation: Insights from Immersive Experimentation (AIAA SciTech 2024)
4. ☑️ 2022/08/01 Nikita Beebe Thesis - Astrogation AR Interface
5. ❌ 2022/00/00 SimBAD IEEE Aerospace Conference Submission
6. ❌ 2022/00/00 William Young Thesis - SimBAD
7. ❌ 2021/00/00 Michael McCarthy Thesis - Prox Ops w/ Obstacle Avoidance
8. ☑️ 2020/12/05 Planet Rendering Paper (IEEE 2020)
9. ☑️ 2020/12/05 STEM Education Through Virtual Space System Design Competitions (AIAA SciTech 2021)
10. ☑️ 2020/12/01 SpaceCRAFT Platform Paper (AIAA SciTech 2021)