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Osculating Elements
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| Fundamentals | |
|---|---|
| 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
Calculation of the position and velocity of the satellite from its orbital elements
- (10)
- where
- (11)
Figure 1: Orbit in space.
