Item | Strategy | Comments |
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Geopotential | EGM2008 model Truncation up to degree and order 12 | IERS Conventions 2010 IERS Conventions 2010 |
Tidal potentials | Solid Earth tides Pole tides Ocean tides ignored | IERS Conventions 2010 |
Third-body | Moon, Sun, and all other major planets | JPL DE405 |
Relativistic correction | Schwarzschild term considered only | IERS Conventions 2010 |
Solar radiation pressure | The new SRP model in Section 2.3 Reduced ECOM model | Quasi-orbit-fixed frame Satellite-fixed frame |
Satellite attitude | Nominal yaw-steering model | |
Satellite eclipse | Cylindrical model for Earth/Moon shadow | R⊕ = 6371 km, |
Numerical integrator | Runge-Kutta fourth-order method | Step size 30 s |