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Osculating Elements
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Title | Osculating Elements |
Author(s) | J. Sanz Subirana, J.M. Juan Zornoza and M. Hernández-Pajares, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain. |
Level | Advanced |
Year of Publication | 2011 |
A scheme with the necessary calculations to obtain the osculating orbital elements starting from the position and velocity of a satellite in a geocentric inertial system, and vice-versa, is provided as follows (see figure 1):
Calculation of the orbital elements of the satellite from its position and velocity
- [math]\displaystyle{ (x, y, z, v_x, v_y, v_z) \Longrightarrow (a, e, i, \Omega, \omega, M) \qquad \mbox{(1)} }[/math]
- [math]\displaystyle{ \vec c= \vec r \times \vec v \Longrightarrow p=\frac{c^2}{\mu} \Longrightarrow p \qquad \mbox{(2)} }[/math]
- [math]\displaystyle{ v^2=\mu (2/r -1/a) \Longrightarrow a \qquad \mbox{(3)} }[/math]
- [math]\displaystyle{ p=a(1-e^2) \Longrightarrow e \qquad \mbox{(4)} }[/math]
- [math]\displaystyle{ \vec c = c \vec S \Longrightarrow \Omega=\arctan(-c_x/c_y); i=arcs(c_z/c) \Longrightarrow \Omega, i \qquad \mbox{(5)} }[/math]
- [math]\displaystyle{ \left( \begin{array}{l} x\\ y\\ z \end{array} \right) = R \left( \begin{array}{l} r \cos(V)\\ r \sin(V)\\ 0 \end{array} \right) = r \left( \begin{array}{l} \cos \Omega \cos(\omega+V)- \sin \Omega \sin(\omega+V) \cos i\\ \sin \Omega \cos(\omega+V)+ \cos \Omega \sin(\omega+V) \cos i\\ \sin(\omega+V) \sin i \end{array} \right) \Rightarrow \omega+V \qquad \mbox{(6)} }[/math]
- [math]\displaystyle{ r=\frac{p}{1+e\cos(V)} \Longrightarrow \omega, V \qquad \mbox{(7)} }[/math]
- [math]\displaystyle{ \tan(E/2)=(\frac{1-e}{1+e})^{1/2}\tan(V/2) \Longrightarrow E \qquad \mbox{(8)} }[/math]
- [math]\displaystyle{ M= E -e \sin E \Longrightarrow M \qquad \mbox{(9)} }[/math]
Calculation of the position and velocity of the satellite from its orbital elements
- (10)
- where
- (11)