On the third-body perturbations of high-altitude orbits

The long-term effects of a distant third-body on a massless satellite that is orbiting an oblate body are studied for a high order expansion of the third-body disturbing function. This high order may be required, for instance, for Earth artificial satellites in the so-called MEO region. After filter...

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Autores: Lara, M. [0000-0001-6754-916X], San-Juan, J.F. [0000-0003-1897-2361], López, L.M. [0000-0002-0645-4068], Cefola, P.J.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Institución:Universidad de La Rioja (UR)
Repositorio:RIUR. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de La Rioja
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.dialnet.es:doc/5bbc689db750603269e80c35
Acceso en línea:https://investigacion.unirioja.es/documentos/5bbc689db750603269e80c35
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Averaging
High-altitude orbits
Lie transforms
Third-body perturbation
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Sumario:The long-term effects of a distant third-body on a massless satellite that is orbiting an oblate body are studied for a high order expansion of the third-body disturbing function. This high order may be required, for instance, for Earth artificial satellites in the so-called MEO region. After filtering analytically the short-period angles via averaging, the evolution of the orbital elements is efficiently integrated numerically with very long step-sizes. The necessity of retaining higher orders in the expansion of the third-body disturbing function becomes apparent when recovering the short-periodic effects required in the computation of reliable osculating elements. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.