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Atmospheric Drag Higher Altitude Behavior Change #23

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@esquared11

Hello,

The example code given for using the atmospheric_drag_exponential shows a decaying orbit starting at 250km. I used the same code and got the same result (see image 1) but noticed it was not correct in my personal code calling it in a slightly more complex way. I tried increasing the altitude of the starting orbit and noticed that between 333 and 334 km the resulting behavior changes drastically. Image 2 shows the odd behavior which seems to have the orbit starting at 0km instead of the orbit's original altitude. Image 3 is the code snippet generating the orbit which is the only thing I changed from the example code to get this result.

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