The equations of motion of an artificial satellite in nonsingular variables
Abstract
The equations of motion of an artificial satellite are given in nonsingular variables. Any term in the geopotential is considered as well as luni-solar perturbations up to an arbitrary power of r/r prime; r prime being the geocentric distance of the disturbing body. Resonances with tesseral harmonics and with the moon or sun are also considered. By neglecting the shadow effect, the disturbing function for solar radiation is also developed in nonsingular variables for the long periodic perturbations. Formulas are developed for implementation of the theory in actual computations.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- August 1975
- Bibcode:
- 1975STIN...7531182G
- Keywords:
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- Artificial Satellites;
- Equations Of Motion;
- Orbital Mechanics;
- Perturbation;
- Solar Radiation;
- Launch Vehicles and Space Vehicles