Table 2: Dumping factors due to the precession of the SPOrt orbit. The cases of thermal behaviour synchronous with the Sun illumination with K=1 ( $D^1_{\rm pr}$), K=10 ( $D^{10}_{\rm pr}$) and K=30 ( $D^{30}_{\rm pr}$) are displayed. The asynchronous case ( $D^{\rm asy}_{\rm pr}$) is shown as well.
Lifetime $N_{\rm pr}$ $D^1_{\rm pr}$ $D^{10}_{\rm pr}$ $D^{30}_{\rm pr}$ $D^{\rm asy}_{\rm pr}$
[months]          
12 5 0.046 0.745 0.201 0.200
18 8 0.220 0.416 0.002 0.125
24 10 0.046 0.191 0.141 0.100
30 13 0.135 0.079 0.078 0.077
36 15 0.045 0.183 0.065 0.067


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