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Space debris — The short term orbital evolution in the earth gravity field

✍ Scribed by Edwin Wnuk

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 443 KB
Volume: 66
Category: Article
ISSN: 1572-9478
DOI: 10.1007/bf00048825

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✦ Synopsis

Two aspects of the orbital evolution of space debris -the long-term evolution and the short-term one -are of interest for an exploration of the near-Earth space. The paper presents some results concerning the estimation of the accuracy of predicted positions of Earth-orbiting objects for the short-term: a few revolutions or a time-span interval of a few days. Calculations of predicted positions take into account the influence of an arbitrary number of spherical coefficients of the Earth gravity potential. Differences in predicted positions due to differences in the best contemporary geopotential models (JGM-2, JGM-3 and GRIM4-S4) are estimated with the use of an analytical theory of motion and a numerical integration.

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