Visibility intervals between two artificial satellites under the action of Earth oblateness

• Autores: M. K. Ammar, R. Amin, M.H.M. Hassan
• Localización: Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences, ISSN-e 2444-8656, Vol. 3, Nº. 2, 2018, págs. 353-374
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper presents an analytical method to determine the rise-set times of satellite-satellite visibility periods in different orbits. The Visibility function in terms of the orbital elements of the two satellites versus the time were derived explicitly upto e4. The line-of-sight corrected for Earth Oblateness up to J2, were considered as a perturbation to the orbital elements.

    The visibility intervals of the satellites were calculated for some numerical examples in order to test the results of the analytical work.