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The Maneuvers and Signatures of Interacting Vehicles (MASIV) Toolkit
Spectral Sciences, Inc. (SSI) is extending the direct simulation Monte Carlo flow, chemistry, and radiation solver called SOCRATES-P with a new dynamics package. This package, called the Maneuvers and Signatures of Interacting Vehicles Toolkit (MASIV), will enable high-fidelity calculation of transient missile signatures at high altitudes (> 90 km) by interfacing SOCRATES-P with 6DOF (Degrees Of Freedom) trajectory models. MASIV uses several innovations to describe multiple moving bodies and thrust sources while retaining the high simulation fidelity of SOCRATES-P. These calculations include computation of gaseous forces on the solid bodies and the associated heating of solid body surfaces and will result in time dependent spatial and spectral signature predictions.