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Third-Order Solution of An Artificial-Satellite Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Hiroshi Kinoshita*
Affiliation:
Center for Astrophysics, Harvard College Observatory and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Abstract

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A third-order solution is developed for the motions of artificial satellites moving in the gravitational field of the Earth, whose potential includes the second-, third-, and fourth-order zonal harmonics. Third-order periodic perturbations with fourth-order secular perturbations are derived by Hori’s perturbations method. All quantities are expanded into power series of the eccentricity, but the solution is obtained so as to be closed with respect to the inclination. A comparison with the results of numerical integration of the equations of motion indicates that the solution can predict the position of a close-earth satellite with a small eccentricity with an accuracy of better than 1 cm over 1 month.

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

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