International Space Station(ISS) orbital animation
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SpaceDuck
Makes use of Runge-Kutta 4 method and J2 Earth Model
ISS defined as having an orbital period of 92.68 minutes and an orbital speed of approximately 7660 m/s.
Orbital inclination of ISS is 51.6431 degrees based on NASA data.
https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP/orbit/ISS/SVPOST.html
Calculated orbital inclination from this solver is around 51.9788 degrees.
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SpaceDuck (2025). International Space Station(ISS) orbital animation (https://ch.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/73703-international-space-station-iss-orbital-animation), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
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