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Though all chapters have discussed how to get from Earth to a planet, and even how to enter an operational orbit around a planet, the type of operational orbit has not been discussed yet. The operational orbit selection depends on many factors, such as ground coverage for scientific missions, coverage to a lander for relay satellites, or the need for certain Sun illuminations due to constraints acting on the power sub-system. There are different types of planetary orbits, and these will be discussed in this chapter.
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Biesbroek, R. (2016). Planetary Orbits. In: Lunar and Interplanetary Trajectories. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26983-2_7
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