Effects of Geopotential and Atmospheric Drag Effects on Frozen Orbits Using Nonsingular Variables

The concept of frozen orbit has been applied in space missions mainly for orbital tracking and control purposes. This type of orbit is important for orbit design because it is characterized by keeping the argument of perigee and eccentricity constant on average, so that, for a given latitude, the sa...

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Main Authors: Paula Cristiane Pinto Mesquita Pardal, Rodolpho Vilhena de Moraes, Helio Koiti Kuga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/678015