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First-order effects of the Earth's oblateness upon coasting bodies

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The Kustaanheimo-Stiefel transformation and perturbation techniques are employed in deriving approximate closed-form expressions for the trajectories of bodies coasting about an oblate Earth. The solutions are used to obtain Lambert type solutions which include oblateness effects.

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  • Stiefel, E. L. and Scheifele, G.: 1971,Linear and Regular Celestial Mechanics, Springer-Verlag.

  • Jezewski, D. J.: 1975, ‘Shuttle Program K/S Lambert and Deorbit Problems’, Johnson Space Center Internal Note No. 75-FM-41.

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  1. University of New Orleans, New Orleans, La., USA

    Jan F. Andrus

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Research primarily supported by a NASA-ASEE Fellowship, supporting work with the Mission Planning and Analysis Division, Johnson Space Center.

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Andrus, J.F. First-order effects of the Earth's oblateness upon coasting bodies. Celestial Mechanics 15, 217–224 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01228463

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