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Combined solar radiation pressure and drag effects on the orbits of artificial satellites

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A semi analytical theory is proposed to study the joint effects of direct solar radiation pressure and atmospheric drag on the orbit of an artificial Earth satellite. Making the solar radiation pressure equal to zero the problem is reduced to one already solved by Brouwer and Hori. The solutions are not equivalent, however, since in the Brouwer and Hori theory one has spurious Poisson terms.

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  1. Departmento de Astronomia, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, 12200, São José dos Campos, SP, Brasil

    Rodolpho Vilhena De Moraes

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De Moraes, R.V. Combined solar radiation pressure and drag effects on the orbits of artificial satellites. Celestial Mechanics 25, 281–292 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01228965

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