Research Article

Indirect Optimization of Satellite Deployment into a Highly Elliptic Orbit

Table 2

Time length and angular length of burn arcs (J2 only).

N
P1 A1 P2 A2 A3

2.5 , h 2.66 76.50 3.77
, deg 250.15 58.73 154.38
3.5 , h 0.45 35.55 34.79
, deg 121.27 18.40 23.15
4.5 , h 0.65 23.28 22.95 22.63
, deg 152.88 10.90 12.97 15.02

N
P1 A1 P2 A2 A3

2.5 , h 0.09 8.50
, deg 28.50 4.67
3.5 , h 0.09 4.29 4.20
, deg 28.97 2.04 2.61
4.5 , h 0.09 2.87 2.83 2.79
, deg 29.05 1.30 1.55 1.80