Orbital Inclination as a Function of Launch Azimuth

This script can be used to determine the relationship between orbital inclination and launch azimuth for a user-defined launch site latitude

The following is a typical user interaction with this script. Please note the units and sign convention for the launch site latitude.

orbital inclination versus launch azimuth for a user-defined launch latitude

please input the geographic latitude of the launch site

(-90 <= degrees <= +90, 0 <= minutes <= 60, 0 <= seconds <= 60)

(north latitude is positive, south latitude is negative)

? 28,30,0

This MATLAB script is based on the clever Desmos demonstration located on the world wide web at https://www.desmos.com/calculator/tp36taetix.

The orbinc_vs_azimuth script will create a graphic display of this relationship. It will also save a tif disk file of the image named orbinc_vs_azimuth.txt.