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- Information wanted on three-body solvers, and on high inclination coorbitals
I was working on a proposal for a spacecraft , and suddenly realized that the ideal orbit may be a high inclination type of near-Earth coorbital called a "retrograde satellite" or RS orbit. Do you know of:
* A person who can compute 100 years of coorbital stability using three body (sun, earth, satellite) or four body (with moon) kinematics?
* A simple-to-use approximate 3-D calculator for the three body problem, simplified so the third body has negligible mass.
* Where I can find as much information as possible on RS orbits in general. eg. ellipticity vs inclination.
* Any information at all on periodic RS orbits with 1:1 resonance.
So far, all I know about RS orbits comes from "Coorbital Dynamics at Large Eccentricity and Inclination ", https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.2506
The inclination range I'm most interested in is 15 to 45 degrees.
* A person who can compute 100 years of coorbital stability using three body (sun, earth, satellite) or four body (with moon) kinematics?
* A simple-to-use approximate 3-D calculator for the three body problem, simplified so the third body has negligible mass.
* Where I can find as much information as possible on RS orbits in general. eg. ellipticity vs inclination.
* Any information at all on periodic RS orbits with 1:1 resonance.
So far, all I know about RS orbits comes from "Coorbital Dynamics at Large Eccentricity and Inclination ", https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.2506
The inclination range I'm most interested in is 15 to 45 degrees.