Research Article

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

Table 5

Results of system (a), = .

Method Iter Time (s)

N 8 1.9999 1.1734 1.1078 0 0.004658
T 6 3.0000 1.3841 1.1251 0 0.006098
J 4 3.9887 1.1174 1.0715 0 0.004620
NAJC1 4 6.0051 1.1259 1.0451 0 0 0.009178
NAJC2 4 6.0028 1.1289 1.0462 0 0 0.008030