Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10680833 Acta Astronautica 2014 12 Pages PDF
Abstract
This paper gives an overview of the Good Practices for orbit propagation in LEO, GEO and GTO as well as a brief description of the STELA tool. It explains the specificities of GTO and the need for a statistical approach, through a Monte-Carlo campaign of orbital propagations. Then, it raises the question of the statistical convergence and proposes a methodology to estimate a confidence interval for the results. Finally, special cases consisting of typical GTO are treated.
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