Long-duration analysis of the J2-model equations of relative motion for satellite clusters

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 112 II, Issue , 2002, Pages 1005-1020

  Swank, Aaron J ^a   McLaughlin, Craig A ^b   Sabol, Chris ^d   Burns, Richard D ^c  

^a Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial for Computational and Mathematical Engineering   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMICAL SATELLITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORBITS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SOLAR RADIATION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ATMOSPHERIC DRAG EFFECT; CLUSTER ORBITS WITH PERTURBATIONS OF KELPLERIAN ELEMENT; DRAPER SEMIANALYTIC SATELLITE THEORY; EARTH OBLATENESS EFFECT;

SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 0036910319     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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