2017/09/28 by Elisa Maria Alessi, E. M. Alessi, G. Schettino +3 · 1 citation
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Aerospace engineering #Astro and Planetary Science #Astronomy #Celestial mechanics #Classical mechanics #Computational physics #Eccentricity (behavior) #Geometry #Optics #Orbit (dynamics) #Orbital eccentricity #Orbital elements #Orbital mechanics #Perspective (graphical) #Physics #Planet #Point (geometry) #Quantum mechanics #Radiation #Radiation pressure #Satellite #Space Satellite Systems and Control #Spacecraft Dynamics and Control #Work (physics) #astro-ph.EP
paper · pdf · doi:10.1093/mnras/stx2507
published as Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 473, Issue 2, January 2018
arxiv created 2017/09/28 · openalex publication_date 2017/09/28 · arxiv updated 2019/09/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The aim of this work is to highlight the crucial role that orbital resonances associated with solar radiation pressure can have in Low Earth Orbit. We review the corresponding literature, and provide an analytical tool to estimate the maximum eccentricity which can be achieved for well-defined initial conditions. We then compare the results obtained with the simplified model with the results obtained with a more comprehensive dynamical model. The analysis has important implications both from a theoretical point of view, because it shows that the role of some resonances was underestimated in the past, and also from a practical point of view in the perspective of passive deorbiting solutions for satellites at the end-of-life.