Abstract On time scales of interest for mission planning of GNSS satellites, the qualitative motion of the semimajor axis and the node evolves primarily from resonances with the Earth’s gravitational field. The relevant dynamics of GPS orbits, which are in deep 2 to 1 resonance, is modeled with an integrable intermediary that depends only on one angle, the stroboscopic mean node, plus a two degrees of freedom perturbation that is factored by the eccentricity. Results are compared with long-term runs of the GTDS DSST showing very good agreement.
Deep Resonant GPS-Dynamics Due to the Geopotential
The Journal of the Astronautical Sciences ; 58 , 4 ; 661-676
2011-10-01
16 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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