Satellite Concepts

https://au.mathworks.com/help/satcom/gs/satelliteScenario-key-conc

1. Coordinate Systems
   • Geodetic coordinates – (lat, lon, h); lattitude, longitude, ellipsoidal height
   • Earth Centered Earth-Fixed Coordinates
   • …
2. Orbital Elements
   • Eccentricity (e)
   • Semimajor Axis (a)
   • Inclination (i)
   • Right ascension of ascending node (Ω) – RAAN
   • Argument of periapsis (ω)
   • True Anomaly (v)
3. Two Line Element (TLE) Files
   • Data format encoding list of orbital elements at a given point in time
   • Consists of 3 lines
     • Satellite 1
     • 1 -42U 20042A 20154.78005548 .00000000 00000-0 10000-3 0 15
     • 2 -42 55.0000 175.0000 0010000 100.0000 174.9900 12.60262048 485
   • https://www.space-track.org/documentation#tle

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