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A successful apogee manoeuvre places the satellite in a near-geosynchronous orbit, also known as a drift orbit owing to the slow drift of the satellite in longitude. The main mission events during the drift orbit phase are attitude acquisition, station acquisition, and initialisation.
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Rao, P.P.: 1978, “Monte Carlo Analysis of Impulse Requirements for Injection Error Correction”, J. of Guidance and Control, Vol.1, No.4, pp.225-231.
Pocha, J.J.: 1984, “Mission and System Analyses for Satellites with Unified Bi-Propellant Propulsion Systems”, Space Communications and Broadcasting, Vol.2, pp.59-70.
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Pocha, J.J. (1987). Drift Orbit. In: An Introduction to Mission Design for Geostationary Satellites. Space Technology Library, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3857-1_5
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