COMPARISON OF DELAUNAY NORMALIZATION AND THE KRYLOV-BOGOLIUBOV-MITROPOLSKY METHOD

摘要

A scalable second-order analytical orbit propagator program (AOPP) is being carried out. This AOPP combines modern and classical perturbation methods in function of orbit types or the requirements needed for a space mission, such as catalog maintenance operations, long period evolution, and so on. As a first step on the validation and verification of part of our AOPP, we only consider perturbation produced by zonal harmonic coefficients in the Earths gravity potential, so that it is possible to analyze the behavior of the mathematical expression involved in the corresponding analytical theory in depth and determine its limits.