In this paper we investigate the influence of the light pressure on the motion stability of near-Earth space objects whose orbital semi-major axes change from 8000 to 42400 km. The orbital evolution of each object with area-to-mass ratio in the range from 1 to 70 m2/kg has been considered. In addition, values of the area-tomass ratio have been investigated at which the objects from various zones of the near-Earth space depart from their orbits under the influence of the light pressure and then fall to the Earth.
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 1, pp. 65–71, January, 2019.
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Aleksandrova, A.G., Bordovitsyna, T.V. Investigation of the Influence of the Light Pressure on the Stability of Near-Earth Space Object Motion. Russ Phys J 62, 75–81 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11182-019-01685-0
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