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11.2.2 Mission Planning 852
11.3 Geometries for Surveillance and Reconnaissance 853
11.3.1 Ground Distance on the Ellipsoid 860
11.4 Designing and Maintaining Mission Orbits 862
11.4.1 Sun-Synchronous Orbits 862
11.4.2 Repeat-Groundtrack Orbits 869
11.4.3 Minimum Altitude Variation Orbits 880
11.4.4 Frozen-Orbit Eccentricity and Argument of Perigee 885
11.4.5 Application: Designing a Specialized Orbit 888
11.5 Navigation—the Global Positioning System 895
11.5.1 Historical Background 896
11.5.2 System Introduction 899
11.5.3 Signals from GPS Satellites 901
11.6 Predicting Satellite Look Angles 908
11.6.1 PREDICT Formulation 909
11.6.2 Rise / Set 913
11.7 Performing Close Approach Analyses 919
11.7.1 Close Approach Solutions 922
Chapter 12 Interplanetary Mission Analysis 941
12.1 Historical Background 941
12.2 Patched Conic Trajectories 944
12.2.1 Sphere of Influence 945
12.2.2 Interplanetary Transfers 948
12.2.3 Departure from Earth 949
12.2.4 Arrival 952
12.2.5 Realistic Interplanetary Transfers 954
12.3 Porkchop Plots 954
12.4 Gravity Assist Trajectories 957
12.5 B-Plane Targeting 961
12.6 Planetary Capture 964
12.6.1 Aerobraking 965
12.7 Three-body Mission Design 967
12.7.1 Circular Restricted Three-body Problem (CRTBP) 967
12.7.2 Lagrange Points 971
12.7.3 Periodic Orbits 973
12.7.4 Manifolds 977
12.8 Low-energy Transfers 982
Appendix A Dictionary of Symbols 989
Appendix B Modeling the Atmosphere 1001
B.1 Jacchia-Roberts Atmosphere 1001
B.1.1 Evaluating Temperature 1001
B.1.2 Robert’s Corrections to Temperature 1003
B.1.3 Evaluating Density 1004
B.1.4 Robert’s Corrections to Density 1005
B.2 Russian GOST Atmosphere 1011