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The motion of abandoned satellites near the geostationary (GEO) region has been extensively studied, modeled, and compared to the motion of station-kept, operational satellites, providing insights into the evolution of uncontrolled orbits at GEO. Analytic developments produced a family of curves represented in the ascending node versus inclination space describing the long-term precession of the orbit...
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