Research Article

Preliminary Orbit Determination of Artificial Satellites: A Vectorial Sixth-Order Approach

Table 3

Results of reference Orbit I.

Method Iter Time (s)

N 7 1.9999 1.1112 1.1112 0 0.005049
T 5 2.9995 1.1396 1.1102 0 0.005463
J 4 4.0000 1.1264 1.0771 0 0.005906
NAJC1 3 5.7569 1.1347 1.0485 0 0.009218
NAJC2 3 5.7821 1.1352 1.0487 0 0.007306