... > magnitudes (in feet per second). I've seen some reference to the M50 > frame somewhere before - is it an Earth fixed or inertial frame or what? > LVLH refers to the spacecraft orientation relative to its orbit direction - > I can't remember exactly what it stands for. > ... Local Vertical, Local Horizontal From Ken Ernandes' documentation: VEC2TLE provides two standard systems for specifying the orientation of the ECI coordinate axes: 1) True Equator, True Equinox of Date and 2) Mean Equator, Mean Equinox of 1950 (M50). The former, as its name implies, orients the X-, Y-, and Z-axes to the actual directions of the Vernal Equinox and polar axes at the applicable time of the vector. The latter orients the axes to the respective directions of the equinox and pole at the beginning of the Besselian Year 1950. ------------------- The Invar Sph HA/HP defy my guess - obviously it is not in LVLH, where angles close to 0,90,180 or 270 would be expected: yet the two sets are quite similar, like the vector directions. In the M50 system, the two sets would be more different; at least one angle closer to 0,90,180,270 and the other three more spread out over [0,359.9] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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