Analysis of the orbit of cosmos 395 rocket (1971-13B) near 15th-order resonance

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Cosmos 395 rocket (1971-13B) is moving in a near-circular orbit inclined at 74° to the equator. Its average height, near 540 km after launch in February 1971, slowly decreased under the action of air drag and on 24 March 1972 it experienced exact 15th-order resonance, with the successive equator crossings 24° apart in longitude. Its orbit has been determined at 21 epochs between September 1971 and September 1972 using 1100 observations, including 55 from the Malvern Hewitt camera: the mean S.D. in inclination is 0.001° and in eccentricity 0.00001. The variations in inclination i, eccentricity e, right ascension of the node Ω, and argument of perigee ω, near 15th-order resonance are analysed to determine values of lumped 15th-order harmonic coefficients in the geopotential. The inclination yields equations accurate to 4 per cent for coefficients of order 15 and degree 15,17,19..., which are in excellent agreement with those from Cosmos 387 (1970-111A) in an orbit of similar inclination but different resonant longitude. Analysis of the variations in e gives two pairs of equations for the coefficients of order 15 and degree 16, 18..., which are used to obtain tentative values of the (16,15) coefficients. For the first time the resonant variation of other elements (Ω and ω) has also been analysed with partial success.

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