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End-of-life disposal of high elliptical orbit missions: The case of INTEGRAL

Armellin, Roberto; San-Juan, Juan F.; Lara, Martin

Nowadays there is international consensus that space activities must be managed to minimize debris generation and risk. The paper presents a method for the end-of-life (EoL) disposal of spacecraft in high elliptical orbits (HEO). The time evolution of HEO is strongly affected by Earth's oblateness and luni-solar perturbation, and this can cause in…