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Remove words ‘Partway through’ to clarify text
This phrase had confused as Skyfield user into thinking that the mean elements were computed for a point in time ‘partway’ between the epoch and the time for which the position is being generated.
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*Mean Elements From Most Recent Propagation*
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Partway through each propagation, the SGP4 routine saves a set of
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“singly averaged mean elements” that describe the orbit’s shape at the
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moment for which a position is being computed. They are averaged with
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respect to the mean anomaly and include the effects of secular gravity,
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atmospheric drag, and — in Deep Space mode — of those pertubations from
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the Sun and Moon that SGP4 averages over an entire revolution of each of
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those bodies. They omit both the shorter-term and longer-term periodic
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Each time the SGP4 routine generates a satellite position, it also saves
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a set of “singly averaged mean elements” that describe shape of the
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satellite's orbit at that moment. They are averaged with respect to the
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mean anomaly and include the effects of secular gravity, atmospheric
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drag, and — in Deep Space mode — of those pertubations from the Sun and
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Moon that SGP4 averages over an entire revolution of each of those
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bodies. They omit both the shorter-term and longer-term periodic
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pertubations from the Sun and Moon that SGP4 applies right before
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computing each position.
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