Research Article

Study of Some Strategies for Disposal of the GNSS Satellites

Figure 10

Temporal evolution of the eccentricity (a) and the periapsis radius (b) of a satellite with initial conditions:  km, , , °, and ° (marked by a black circle in Figures 7, 8, and 9). The periapsis altitude reaches 200 km after 50 years.
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