Perturbation effect on ground tracks of Molniya satellite orbits

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Faculty of Science - Cairo University, Egypt

2 Faculty of Science - Cairo University, Egypt.

Abstract

The main concern in the present research work is to define the basic requirements study of many
perturbations forces that affect ground tracks of Molniya satellite orbits.
In this we are going to design a mathematical model to calculate the footprint of any satellite taking
into account the effect of disturbing forces (oblatness and solar radiation pressure) in order to get the
most accurate sub-satellite point, matlab language is used to design program to calculate the
mathematical models of footprint satellites with numerical application of some different Molniya
satellites orbit.

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