Orbital Mechanics Library

A compilation of all of the functions I wrote for my orbital mechanics class

Version 1.2.0 (559 KB)
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1 Oct 2009
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Richard Rieber (2026). Orbital Mechanics Library (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/13439-orbital-mechanics-library), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .

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1.2.0

Added features to some plotting functions, improved comments, added H1 lines, added capabilities of some functions to work with perfectly equatorial and/or circular orbits.
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1.1.0

- Fixed a simple bug in KeplerCOE
- Changed input checking in elorb to accept 3x1 inputs.
- Re: Jo Man's comment. Yes, a dT of 0 yields a non-zero dR. This is due to error in Newton-Raphson iteration.
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1.0.0

Updated plotorb. Added capability to orbit bodies other than Earth.

Updated nuFromTp and nuFromM to fix a gruesome error in the default tolerance from 10^8 rad to 10^-8 rad.
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