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On force-field models of the spacecraft flyby anomaly

Authors :
Hasse, Wolfgang
Birsin, Emrah
Haehnel, Philipp
Publication Year :
2009
Publisher :
arXiv, 2009.

Abstract

Recently, Anderson et al. published an empirical prediction formula for the so far unexplained parts of the velocity changes of spacecrafts during Earth flybys. In the framework of a perturbational approach, we show that there is no velocity-independent force field of the Earth - in addition to its Newtonian gravity field - that is to reproduce this formula. However, we give examples for fields modeling exactly the flyby anomaly which are quadratic functions of the velocity of the spacecraft.

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....1a814e650310a14d52a6ee84eac345d6
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.0903.0109