FGravityGradientStiffness:

Path: SC/Disturbances

%   Gravity gradient for a rigid body with small offsets from LVLH. 
   The spacecraft is aligned with LVLH with orbit rate is about the -y axis. 
   This model is valid only for small angles about LVLH.
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   Form:
   [xDot, tGG] = FGravityGradientStiffness( x, t, inertia, orbitRate )
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   Inputs
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   x          (6,1)  [roll;pitch;yaw;xRate;yRate;zRate]
   t          (1,1)  Time (not used)
   inertia    (3,3)  Inertia matrix
   orbitRate  (:,1)  Orbit rate may be a scalar or vector

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   Outputs
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   xDot       (6,1)  State derivative
   tGG        (3,1)  Gravity gradient torque

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Children:

Math: Linear/Cross
Math: Linear/Mag
Math: Linear/Skew

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