feat: spacecraft support

[Pedro-Roque]

Spacecraft Support

Description

Adds support for Spacecraft vehicles, currently being available in PX4, ATMOS.

Test Steps

Build PX4 SITL with

make px4_sitl_spacecraft gz_atmos

Open this build, go to vehicle configuration, PID Tuning. Rejoice!
Also added image and airframe_group for spacecraft.

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[Pedro-Roque]

@DonLakeFlyer can we get this one through?

[DonLakeFlyer]

I think this should be also added as a new Vehicle Class in QGCMAVLink.* code. Also what about bool PX4FirmwarePlugin::isCapable(const Vehicle *vehicle, FirmwareCapabilities capabilities) const? Should any capability bits be set?

[DonLakeFlyer]

Does this vehicle support missions?

[Pedro-Roque]

Does this vehicle support missions?

I did not try missions with this vehicle. So far it is experimental. Would this need to be support for QGC?

[Pedro-Roque]

capabilities

Will check this out.

[DonLakeFlyer]

@Pedro-Roque Any updates here?

[Pedro-Roque]

Hi @DonLakeFlyer not yet, but I'll come back to you before the weekend. Sorry for the delay, things are a bit hectic atm

[Pedro-Roque]

@DonLakeFlyer finally got to do it. No extra capabilities should be added at this point, this will be for later. The vehicle does not support missions for now.

I also fixed a string for proper text spacing on the Airframe tab.

[Pedro-Roque]

@DonLakeFlyer just checking if there is anything else I should do before we merge this in.

[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

This PR adds support for spacecraft vehicles in QGroundControl, specifically for PX4 SITL with the ATMOS spacecraft simulator. The implementation includes vehicle classification, PID tuning components, and UI elements for spacecraft configuration.

Key changes:

• Adds spacecraft vehicle type classification with MAV_TYPE_SPACECRAFT_ORBITER
• Implements PID tuning UI components for spacecraft rate, attitude, velocity, and position control
• Adds spacecraft airframe configuration and visual assets

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 14 out of 16 changed files in this pull request and generated 3 comments.

Show a summary per file

File	Description
Vehicle.h/.cc	Adds spacecraft() method for vehicle type detection
QGCMAVLink.h/.cc	Implements spacecraft classification and string conversion functions
PX4TuningComponent*.qml	Creates PID tuning UI components for spacecraft control loops
PX4TuningComponent.cc	Adds spacecraft case to tuning component selection
AirframeFactMetaData.xml	Defines spacecraft airframe configuration
qgcimages.qrc	Adds FreeFlyer.svg image resource for spacecraft

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[DonLakeFlyer]

@Pedro-Roque Can you look at the CoPilot comments? I looked at the SC_YAWRATE_D param and the "D" represents "differential" so the complaints may be correct.

[Pedro-Roque]

@DonLakeFlyer fixed!

[DonLakeFlyer]

OK, so theoretically be good to go now. Can you squash to single commit?

[Pedro-Roque]

@DonLakeFlyer sure, but feel free to squash merge this with the commit message "feat: spacecraft-orbitter support"

[Pedro-Roque]

@DonLakeFlyer are we good to merge this in?

[DonLakeFlyer]

Gonna do another Ci run to verify

[Pedro-Roque]

Looks good @DonLakeFlyer