Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-jn8rn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-23T20:27:19.617Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

An Application of the Stroboscopic Method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

E. A. Roth*
Affiliation:
ESOC, Darmstadt

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

In this paper the motion of an orbiter of a satellite of one of the major planets is considered. The orbiter undergoes various perturbing effects. It is shown that the semi-analytical stroboscopic method is well suited to take into account all perturbations.

Type
Part IV. Satellites of Jupiter and Saturn, and Artificial Satellites
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1978

References

King-Hele, D. G.: 1962, The Contraction of Satellite Orbits under the Influence of Air Drag. III. High-eccentricity Orbits (o.2<e<l). Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 267, 541557 Google Scholar
King-Hele, D. G. 1964, Theory of Satellite Orbits in an Atmosphere. Butterworth, London Google Scholar
Lidov, M. L.: 1962, The Evolution of Artificial Satellites of Planets under the Action of Gravitational Perturbations of External Bodies, Planet. Space Science, 9, 719759 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Merson, R. H.: 1963, The Perturbation of a Satellite Orbit in an axi-symmetric gravitational Field. RAE, TN Space 26,Google Scholar
Roth, E. A.: 1968, Luni-solar Perturbations of a Highly Eccentric Orbit Satellite, ESRO SR-9, ParisGoogle Scholar
Roth, E. A.: 1970, A Method and a Computer Program for the Quick Determination of a Preliminary Launch-Window for Satellites with Moderately-to-Highly Eccentric Orbits, ESRO SR-15, ParisGoogle Scholar
Roth, E. A.: 1971, The Short Periodic Luni-solar Perturbation of the Motion of a Highly Eccentric Orbit Satellite, ESRO SR-18, ParisGoogle Scholar
Roth, E. A.: 1973, Fast Computation of High Eccentricity Orbits by the Stroboscopic Method, Cel. Mech., 8, 245249 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Roth, E. A.: 1974, Perturbation of a Planetary Orbiter by Radiation Pressure, ESRO SR-24, ParisGoogle Scholar
Roth, E. A.: 1975, Perturbation of a Satellite Orbiter by the Oblateness of the Primary Planet, ESA SR-26, ParisGoogle Scholar
Sridharan, R.: 1973, Evolution of the Orbital Elements in Geocentric Orbits of High Eccentricity by Non-Numeric Computation, Ph. D. Thesis, Carnegie-Mellon University Google Scholar
Wong, S. K.: 1975, Gravity Field of Jupiter from Pioneer 11 Tracking Data, Science, 188, 476477 Google Scholar