ssapy_toolkit.Accelerations.accel_plane

ssapy_toolkit.Accelerations.accel_plane(r, v, magnitude)[source]

Tangential acceleration in the orbital plane, perpendicular to r̂.

Parameters:

r (array_like, shape (3,)) – Position vector in meters.
v (array_like, shape (3,)) – Velocity vector in meters per second.
magnitude (float) – Desired acceleration magnitude in m/s^2. Positive → along the direction of motion; negative → opposite direction.

Returns:

a – Tangential acceleration vector in m/s^2.

Return type:

ndarray, shape (3,)