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AEROSPACE CHINA ›› 2025, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (1): 14-23.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1671-0940.2025.01.003

• SPECIAL ISSUE: SPATIAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY • Previous Articles     Next Articles

A Generalized Satellite Digital Twin System for Satellite Operations

LIN Jiawei, ZHANG Yujie, WU Xiaoming, LIU Jianhua   

  1. Beijing Institute of Control Engineering, Beijing 100190
  • Published:2025-08-27

Abstract: Digital twin shows broad application prospects in the aerospace field. This paper introduces a generalized satellite digital twin system in detail. With the innovative design concepts of modularization, generalization and modeling, on the one hand, the system has successfully achieved the reuse of software modules among different satellite models; on the other hand, it has achieved the reuse of software modules between the digital twin and the testing system, significantly improving the development efficiency of the digital twin system. The paper elaborates on the technical architecture and application fields of this digital twin system, and further prospects its future development. At the same time, through a real in-orbit case, the engineering value of the digital twin system is strongly demonstrated.

Key words: satellite operation, generalization, digital twin