Research Article

Higher-Order Analytical Attitude Propagation of an Oblate Rigid Body under Gravity-Gradient Torque

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Errors of the fourth-order analytical solution versus the numerical integration for initial conditions , , rad. (Left): only the secular terms of the analytical solution are considered. (Right): the analytical solution includes secular and periodic terms. The notation is used for relative errors, whereas means absolute differences.
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