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Aerospace Blockset
Model and simulate aircraft, spacecraft, and propulsion systems
Aerospace Blockset™ software extends Simulink® with blocks for modeling and simulating aircraft, spacecraft,
rocket, and propulsion systems, as well as unmanned airborne vehicles. It also includes blocks that implement
mathematical representations from aerospace standards, common references, and first principles. Blocks for
modeling equations of motion and for navigation, gain scheduling, visualization, unit conversion, and other key
operations are also provided.
Key Features
▪ Simulates aerospace vehicle components, including propulsion systems, control systems, mass properties, and
actuators
▪ Models flight dynamics, including three- and six-degrees-of-freedom equations of motion with fixed or
variable mass
▪ Provides options for visualizing vehicle dynamics in a three-dimensional environment, including an interface
to FlightGear flight simulator
▪ Includes standards-based environmental models for atmosphere, gravity, wind, geoid height, and magnetic
field
▪ Implements predefined utilities for converting units, transforming coordinate systems and spatial
representations, and performing common aerospace math operations

Using Simulink and Aerospace Blockset to model and simulate vehicle dynamics of a NASA HL-20 lifting body (bottom left). The
system is visualized with FlightGear flight simulator (top right).

Standards-based reference blocks, including environmental models for gravity, atmosphere, and wind, enable you
to verify and validate your vehicle system design. Graphical switching capabilities let you alternate between
mathematical representations, enabling you to rapidly modify modeling conditions without changing the model.
You can automatically generate code for production deployment and for real-time execution in rapid prototyping

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