A simple analytic orbit propagator is presented which incorporates a mean-to-osculating transformation to generate a graphical display of the trajectories of earth-orbiting satellites. The first-order effects of the oblateness of the earth on the orbit are consistently included. The propagator encompasses a mean-to-osculating transformation on the semimajor axis, since large intrack errors can be generated by failing to observe the distinction between the mean and osculating values of this parameter.
Fast orbit propagator for graphical display
1991-04-01
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English
Fast orbit propagator for graphical display
AIAA | 1991
|Online Contents | 2017
|Elsevier | 2017
|Simple Satellite Orbit Propagator (AAS 08-167)
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2008
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