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The force due to radiation pressure on a satellite of arbitrary shape is written in a general form within a formalism similar to that used in the theory of radiative transfer in atmospheres. Then the corresponding integrals are evaluated for the simple case of a spherically symmetric satellite, and applied to model the perturbation due to the Earth-reflected radiation flux on LAGEOS. For this purpose, the optical behaviour of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere is described as a combination of Lambertian diffusion (continents), partial specular reflection consistent with Fresnel law (oceans) and anisotropic diffusion according to Chandrasekhar’s radiative transfer theory (clouds). The in-plane Gauss components T and S vs. mean anomaly are computed for a simple orbital geometry and for different models of the Earth’s optical properties. A sensitive dependence is found on the assumed cloud distribution, with significant perturbations possibly arising from oceanic specular reflection when the satellite is close to the Earth’s shadow boundaries.
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Vokrouhlický, D., Farinella, P., Lucchesi, D. (1993). Albedo Perturbation Models: General Formalism and Applications to LAGEOS. In: Bois, E., Oberti, P., Henrard, J. (eds) Interactions Between Physics and Dynamics of Solar System Bodies. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1902-3_19
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