artificial satellites orbiting planetary satellites: critical inclination and helio-synchronous orbits
- Paper number
IAC-16,C1,6,10,x35324
- Coauthor
Prof. Rodolpho V. Moraes, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Brazil
- Coauthor
Ms. Maria Lívia Galhego Thibes Xavier da Costa, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Brazil
- Coauthor
Dr. Jean Paulo dos Santos Carvalho, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo Baiano - CETENS, Brazil
- Coauthor
Dr. Antonio Fernando Almeida Prado, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Brazil
- Year
2016
- Abstract
Recent space missions show interest in the exploration of planetary satellites orbiting moons of our solar system. It is interesting to note that for some of the lunar satellites the internal distribution of their masses behaves differently from the internal distribution of the mass’s Earth. This fact implies often to change the hierarchical order of the coefficients of the gravitational potential developments. In this work, the changes are analyzed in the orbital behavior of lunar satellites, considering the action of perturbative forces, derived from the gravitational potential of the central body, including harmonics known for such moons. Critical inclination and helio-syncrhonous orbits are considered. Due to the characteristics of gravity field of our Moon, the potential truncated up to the $J_{9}$ produces different effects on the frozen orbits when the potential is truncated up to $J_{7}$. Also, for artificial satellite orbiting some of Galilean satellites, where the $J_{2}$ are of the same order of $C_{22}$, nonexistence conditions for frozen orbits can be obtained. Approximate analytical solutions are compared with the results of some numerical simulations.- Abstract document
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