Analysis of Earth’s Geopotential and its Effect on GPS Orbits

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Astronomy, Space Science and Meteorology Dept., Faculty of Science, Cairo University.

2 Egyptian Armed Forces, Egypt.

Abstract

In this paper, we study the GPS orbit as an orbit for navigational satellites; we are concerned with analyzing and simulating the EFFECT OF EARTH’S OBLATNESS, which gives an image for what a satellite will suffer due to this perturbing force. Finally, a numerical technique is used to calculate a real GPS satellite as an example.

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