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Remove words ‘Partway through’ to clarify text
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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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brandon-rhodes committed Feb 4, 2024
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*Mean Elements From Most Recent Propagation*
Partway through each propagation, the SGP4 routine saves a set of
“singly averaged mean elements” that describe the orbit’s shape at the
moment for which a position is being computed. They are averaged with
respect to the mean anomaly and include the effects of secular gravity,
atmospheric drag, and — in Deep Space mode — of those pertubations from
the Sun and Moon that SGP4 averages over an entire revolution of each of
those bodies. They omit both the shorter-term and longer-term periodic
Each time the SGP4 routine generates a satellite position, it also saves
a set of “singly averaged mean elements” that describe shape of the
satellite's orbit at that moment. They are averaged with respect to the
mean anomaly and include the effects of secular gravity, atmospheric
drag, and — in Deep Space mode — of those pertubations from the Sun and
Moon that SGP4 averages over an entire revolution of each of those
bodies. They omit both the shorter-term and longer-term periodic
pertubations from the Sun and Moon that SGP4 applies right before
computing each position.
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