VariationalEquation (file format)

Arcs with reference orbit and state transition matrices.

The file contains a reference orbit (position and velocity), the derivatives of the orbit with respect to the satellite state vector for each arc, transformations (rotations) between the satellite, celestial, and terrestrial frame and a satellite macro model (see SatelliteModel).

The reference orbit can be extracted with Variational2OrbitAndStarCamera.

See also: PreprocessingVariationalEquation.