Abstract Different models of the Earth albedo values and geographical distribution are compared. Effects of the local cloud cover on the satellite perturbing acceleration are investigated. Resulting changes of the satellite orbit obtained by the method of numerical integration in the spherical coordinate system are given. It is shown that a sufficiently sensitive microaccelerometer on board a special satellite could significantly improve existing models of the Earth albedo.


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    Title :

    Earth albedo effects in the motion of artificial earth satellites


    Contributors:
    Lála, P. (author)

    Published in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 10 , 3-4 ; 317-320


    Publication date :

    1989-01-01


    Size :

    4 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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