Reducing inter-satellite drift of low Earth orbit constellations using short-periodic corrections

DOI10.1007/S10569-021-10016-WMaRDI QIDQ2034093zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tao Nie, Pini Gurfil

Publication date 21 June 2021

Published in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10569-021-10016-w

zbMATH Keywords

constellationLie transformsectoral and tesseral perturbations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orbital mechanics (70M20)

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