Research Article

Precise Analytical Computation of Frozen-Eccentricity, Low Earth Orbits in a Tesseral Potential

Figure 1

(a) Inclination-eccentricity diagram of frozen-eccentricity orbits of the tesseral problem, for a mean semimajor axis of km. (b) Detail in the vicinity of the critical inclination. Full lines are used for deg., whereas dashed lines indicate deg.
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