Analytical Orbital Theories for Satellites
Abstract
The present situation of analytical orbital theories for artificial satellites is reviewed, and it is discussed how they can be revised in order to compute positions and velocities with an accuracy of 10 billionths (10 cm and 0.1 mm/sec).
- Publication:
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The Use of Artificial Satellites for Geodesy and Geodynamics
- Pub Date:
- 1974
- Bibcode:
- 1974uasg.proc..237K
- Keywords:
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- Numerical Integration;
- Orbit Perturbation;
- Orbital Elements;
- Satellite Orbits;
- Celestial Geodesy;
- Data Reduction;
- Data Transmission;
- Differential Equations;
- Position (Location);
- Satellite Perturbation;
- Terradynamics;
- Astrodynamics