MATLAB Matlab - - final year project (ion propusion)

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The discussion centers on a user attempting to simulate an electrostatic craft transitioning from low Earth orbit to geostationary orbit using MATLAB. The user expresses difficulty in achieving the desired outputs, particularly in plotting the spiral orbit, despite believing their syntax is correct. They mention issues with not receiving a prompt for thrust input and realize that their code was running in Mathematica instead of MATLAB. The user plans to correct this by running the files in MATLAB and seeks assistance from others in the forum for any necessary tweaks or troubleshooting tips.
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Hi, I'm trying to simulate an electrostatic craft going from low Earth orbit to a geostationary orbit, but I'm having some trouble with matlab. I'm not the most confident programmer at the best of times, but needs must and so I've given it a go. As far as I can tell my syntax is correct, but I can't seem to get the correct outputs. The main aim that I have is to get the program to produce a plot of the spiral orbit, but it isn't playing ball.

Basically I think I've been staring at the code for too long and can't see where I'm going wrong, so some help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks


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I've included the 3 files that I'm using, the main file being LEO-GEO orbit xfer

If anyone can suggest any tweaks or things that I'm missing that would be great, also, the code is supposed to ask me to input a value for the thrust, but I never seem to get a prompt - again, maybe I'm missing something here.

Thanks Again
 

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Oh ! I'm using a computer that isn't mine and I've just realized that the files are trying to run in mathematica not MATLAB - sorry about that.

I'll have another go - sticking it into MATLAB for certain this time ! So please ignore this post for the moment

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