MODEL OF REFERENCE ORBIT FOR SATELLITES CONSTELLATION | ||
Al-Azhar Bulletin of Science | ||
Article 22, Volume 2013, Issue 6, June 2013, Pages 65-72 PDF (3.79 M) | ||
Document Type: Original Article | ||
DOI: 10.21608/absb.2013.6578 | ||
Authors | ||
O. S. ALI1; M.N. ISMAIL1; A. BAKRY1; I.A. HASSAN1; NADIA A. SAAD2; B. GIOVANNI3 | ||
1Al-Azhar University, Faculty of Science | ||
2National Research Institutes of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG) | ||
3Aerospace Engineering, Roma Univ. Italy | ||
Abstract | ||
The current work will be focused upon the study of the effects of the earth’s gravitational field on the motion of an artificial satellite constellation and a computational model for this perturbation on the constellation orbit will be done; the earth’s gravitational field up to second zonal harmonics is considered. This perturbation make a drift for the orbital elements of satellite constellation that make continues coverage and lead to a shift of the whole constellation structure. The equations of motion under effects of oblatenees force are solved numerically by using Rung-Kotta method. The results show that this model has efficiency to compute the perturbations for satellite constellation which already congruent with observing data. | ||
Keywords | ||
REFERENCE ORBIT; SATELLITES CONSTELLATION | ||
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