Orbits with repeating ground tracks play a major role in remote sensing missions, reconnaissance missions and lots of special missions. For civil remote sensing systems, an altitude of the order of 500 to 900 km is usually preferred in order to meet the requirement of instrument resolution. Indeed, the mission requirements of those systems are mainly focused on achieving global or near-global coverage to maximize the commercial profit. Of course, special case such as 1 day repeat ground track can be applied for local observation only. On the contrary, the mission requirements for military spacecraft may be driven by more complex or specific operational scenarios. In this study, a new approach using a hybrid genetic algorithm that consists of coarse targeting and fine targeting is introduced to resolve the proposed problem quickly and demonstrated its feasibility as a preliminary result. The proposed approach relies upon coarse search process using a rough solution by analytical scheme and fine search process using a result from the coarse search process. Both of targeting processes are based on a genetic algorithm. The proposed problem in this study may not be achieved by analytical approaches due to the complexity, non-symmetric, and nonlinear nature of the problem.
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