How to have a better propagator?

Hi @luca123,

The figure just below is one of my favourite in orbital mechanics [1]. It shows the order of magnitude of various perturbations depending the satellite altitude. It helps a lot to build the best dynamical model to perform orbit propagation. Orekit can model all these perturbations.

[1]: Montenbruck, O., Gill, E., & Lutze, F. (2002). Satellite orbits: models, methods, and applications. Appl. Mech. Rev., 55(2), B27-B28.

To help you initializing the solid and ocean tides, you can look at the method setSolidTides and setOceanTides of the GNSSOrbitDetermination.java tutorial.

Best regards,
Bryan

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