<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>In a previous (herein referred to as Ammar, Amin and Hassan Paper [1]) the statement of the problem was formulated and the basic visibility function between two satellites in terms of the orbital elements and time were derived. In this paper the perturbing effect due to drag force on the visibility function were derived explicitly up to <italic>O</italic>(<italic>e</italic><sup>4</sup>), by using Taylor’s expansion for the visibility function about certain epoch. We determine the rise and set times of the satellites through the sign of the visibility function. Numerical examples were worked out for some satellites in order to check the validity of the work.</p></abstract>

In a previous (herein referred to as Ammar, Amin and Hassan Paper [1]) the statement of the problem was formulated and the basic visibility function between two satellites in terms of the orbital elements and time were derived. In this paper the perturbing effect due to drag force on the visibility function were derived explicitly up to O(e4), by using Taylor’s expansion for the visibility function about certain epoch. We determine the rise and set times of the satellites through the sign of the visibility function. Numerical examples were worked out for some satellites in order to check the validity of the work.

Calculation of line of site periods between two artificial satellites under the action air drag

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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In a previous (herein referred to as Ammar, Amin and Hassan Paper [1]) the statement of the problem was formulated and the basic visibility function between...

Calculation of line of site periods between two artificial satellites under the action air drag

Published Online: Jul 01, 2018

Page range: 339 - 352

Received: Jan 23, 2018

Accepted: Jun 20, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21042/AMNS.2018.2.00027

Keywords
Visibility function, line of site, Air Drag force, rise and set times

© 2018 M. K. Ammar et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Calculation of line of site periods between two artificial satellites under the action air drag

Published Online: Jul 01, 2018

Page range: 339 - 352

Received: Jan 23, 2018

Accepted: Jun 20, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21042/AMNS.2018.2.00027

KeywordsVisibility function, line of site, Air Drag force, rise and set times

© 2018 M. K. Ammar et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Visibility function, line of site, Air Drag force, rise and set times