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Perturbations of solar radiation pressure on the motion of a spheroidal satellite

Afaf  Mostafa Abd El-Hameed,¹ Mohamed Nader  Sayed Ismail² and Khalil I.Khalil¹

¹National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics, Helwan, Cairo, Egypt

*Correspondence Author Email: afaf_2000@yahoo.com

Accepted 22 April, 2013

Abstract

 This work studied the solar radiation pressure effects on the motion of a spheriodal artificial satellite. The incident and reflected radiation forces were taken into account. A semi-analytical technique was presented. Numerical solution was carried out to obtain the perturbation effects due to direct solar radiation pressure on LAGOES 1. The results were compared with the observations and previous works.

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