MATA: Mission, Attitude, and Telemetry Analysis Software for Micro-Satellites

With the rise in popularity of small satellites, there has been an increasing demand for a software tool that covers different stages of satellite development. In this paper, we extend a small satellite simulation software originally developed for earth-observation satellites Diwata-1 and Diwata-2 to support other satellite missions. This support covers various stages: from ideation, development, and up to post-launch assessment. This paper focuses on the Mission, Attitude, and Telemetry Analysis (MATA) software, which can simulate orbit, attitude, and camera views from planned earth-observation missions. Satellite engineers can also use MATA in a hardware-in-the- loop configuration, serving as one of the last functionality checks before launching the satellite. MATA can also read telemetry files from an orbiting satellite and re-project it in a virtual environment for a more intuitive assessment. This paper also covers the implemented framework for the simulator. This framework would help future developers to extend the simulator to other applications like star tracking simulations, mixed reality satellite training, and space educational software.