Research Article

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

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Eccentricity vector evolution of the frozen-eccentricity orbits when incorporating short-period effects from zonals (blue points) and also from tesserals (red points) superimposed to the eccentricity vector diagram in mean elements. Left: almost circular frozen-eccentricity orbit. Right: elliptic, unstable frozen-eccentricity orbit.
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