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DEDICATION
DECLARATTON
CERTIFICATE
ABSTRACT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
CONTENTS
LIST OF TABLES
LIST OF FIGURES
LIST OF APPENDICES
NOMENCLATURE
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Historical background
1.2 General Introduction
1.3 Perturbed Equations of motion
1.4 Fictitious Time / New Independent Variable
1.5 Levi-Civita Matrix
1.6 KS Transformation
1.7 Hamiltonians Equations of motion
1.8 Canonical Elements
1.9 CanonicaI equations of motion
1.10 Canonical Equations of Motion in Fictitious time
1.11 Separation of Jacobis equation
1.12 KS Uniformly Regular Canonical Elements
1.13 Drag force in terms of KS uniformly regular canonical elements
1.14 Bessel functions of imaginary argument In (z)
1.15 Conclusions
2. LONG TERM ORBIT PREDICTIONS WITH EARTHS OBLATENESS
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Perturbations and Legendre Polynomials
2.3 Initial conditions
2.4 Numerical Integration
2.5 Sun-synchronous orbit
2.6 Near Critical inclination orbits
2.7 Comparison with LRS-IA orbital data
2.8 Conclusions
3. LONGTE RM ORBIT PREDICTIONS WITH EARTHS FLATTENING
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Earths flattening perturbations
3.3 Derived Legendre Functions and Normalized Geopotential Coefficients
3.4 Computational Procedure
3.5 Numerical results
3.6 Comparison with IRS-IA orbital data
3.7 Conclusions
4. SHORT TERM ORBITAL THEORY WITH J2, J3 AND J4
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Equations of Motion
4.3 Analytical Integration
4.4 Comparison with other results
4.5 Numerical results
4.6 Conclusions
5. ORBITAL THEORY WITH AIR DRAG: SPHERICALLY SYMMETRICAL EXPONENTIAL ATMOSPHERE
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Model for air density
5.3 Equations of motion
5.4 Analytical integration
5.5 Numerical results
5.6 Conclusion
6. ORBITAL THEORY WITH AIR DRAG: OBLATE EXPONENTIAL ATMOSPHERE
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Model for air density
6.3 Equations of motion
6.4 Analytical Integration
6.5 Numerical Results
6.6 Conclusion
7. ORBITAL THEORY WITH AIR DRAG: OBLATE DIURNALLY VARYING ATMOSPHERE
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Model for air density
7.3 Analytical integration
7.4 Numerical results
7.5 Conclusion
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