2026-08-14 –, Alte Mensa — Audi Max
Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) for geostationary satellites is traditionally built with a patchwork of tools: MATLAB for analysis, C/C++ for flight software, and custom scripts for simulation and verification. This session details a case study in replacing those various toolsets with a single Julia-based workflow that runs from early design to orbit.
Julia can be used for:
- The plant and "truth" models for orbital and attitude dynamics
- The GNC flight software module itself
- The integrated simulation and requirement verification framework
- The Monte Carlo engine (multi-process, multi-machine)
- The driver for hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing
Nik Drescher, Boeing Space