The effect of the Earth’s oblateness on predicting the shadow conditions of a distant spacecraft: Application to a fictitious lunar explorer
Advances in Space Research(2016)
Abstract
•The effect of the Earth’s oblateness on predicting the shadow events of a distant spacecraft is analyzed.•Eclipse events are predicted and compared using both a spherical and a spheroidal Earth shape.•The characteristics of the predicted events’ duration errors arising from the simplified Earth shape are discussed.
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Key words
Spheroidal Earth shape,Shadow prediction,Eclipse event,Lunar spacecraft
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