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% Drag loss along the arc of a transfer orbit determined from flight path angle Utilizes a scale height atmosphere model. The orbit is determined from the flight path angle. The arc terminates at apogee when the mean anomaly is pi. Type DVDragFPA a demo. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Form: dV = DVDragFPA(v0,h0,gamma0,b) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Inputs ------ v0 (1,1) Initial velocity (km/s) h0 (1,1) Initial altitude (km) gamma0 (1,1) Initial flight path angle (rad) b (1,1) Ballistic coefficient: cD*S/m (m^2/kg) ------- Outputs ------- dV (1,1) Drag delta-V (km/s) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- See also VelAltFpaToAENu, DVOrbitDrag --------------------------------------------------------------------------
AerospaceUtils: AtmosphericCalculations/AtmDens2 Orbit: OrbitCoord/VelAltFpaToAENu Orbit: OrbitMechanics/Nu2M Orbit: OrbitMechanics/Period Orbit: OrbitSim/RVOrbGen Common: Graphics/Plot2D Common: Graphics/TimeLabl Math: Linear/Mag
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