Effects Of Direct And Indirect Solar Radiation Pressure In Orbital Parameters Of GPS Satelittes
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Published Online: Oct 20, 2015
Page range: 141 - 150
Received: Jun 01, 2013
Accepted: Nov 01, 2013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/auom-2014-0039
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In this paper we determined the variation of the Keplerian orbital elements of a GPS satellite due to the direct and indirect action of solar radiation pressure. For this study, we created a soft program to determine the Keplerian elements. This soft uses the initial conditions of position and speed of a GPS satellite and solves the Laplace integration problem using Runge - Kutta algorithm of 4