Ground penetrating radar VIY-2

VIY-2 ground penetrating radar (GPR) with unique sounding possibilities and use simplicity is presented at this paper. VIY-2 GPR combines all units (synchronizer, transmitting and receiving modules, powering, and antenna system) into single case. The VIY-2 GPR communicates with computer via standard interface RS232 or USB1.0. Technical solutions utilized by the VIY-2 GPR reduce deployment time and simplify surveying process. The VIY-2 GPR design features and its components interaction are considered at this paper. Some field results are also presented here. The VIY-2 GPR design concept allows reducing the data acquisition time,, optimizing the time-varying gain control function, applying depth-stacking dependence, controlling the surveying window position and interference reducing by pulse repetition frequency randomizing.     

Kinematics of relative motion of two space bodies in close almost circular orbits

The paper is dedicated to a qualitative investigation of relative motion and close convergences of two space bodies located in close almost circular orbits. This problem is topical due to the asteroid hazard originating from the NEA group asteroids located in the orbits close to that of the Earth. P.E. El’yasberg [1] considered similar problems in the 1960s in relation to Earth’s artificial satellites in close almost circular orbits.     

Investigation of Periods of Evolution for Elliptical Orbits in the Double-Averaged Hill Problem

The geometric analysis applied to the solutions obtained by M.L. Lidov [1] of the satellite version of a restricted circular double-averaged three-body problem allowed us fresh view at the comparative analysis of evolution periods for various elliptical orbits. Based on the similarity theory, the parameters of similitude are invoked for orbits and perturbations. An expression for the period of evolution of three orbit elements through the appropriate similitude parameters is derived. On this basis, a regularity is formulated, the consequences of which are analyzed.     

A Retrospective Geometric Analysis of the Long-Term Evolution of Orbits and the Ballistic Lifetime for Satellites of the Prognoz Series

We consider the applied aspects of the geometrical analysis of solutions in a restricted circular double-averaged three-body problem that are concerned with the design of high-apogee satellite orbits. Based on the analysis of the long-term evolution and the ballistic lifetime for orbit families of the Prognoz satellites launched into their orbits in the period 1972–1995, we suggest some practical suggestions for choosing long-lived high-apogee orbits with taking into account various requirements for the domain of evolution of the orbital elements.     

A hydrodynamic analogy of the solution to double-averaged Hill problem

A hydrodynamic analogy for the solution of doubly averaged Hill problem obtained by M.L. Lidov [1] is discussed. S.A. Chaplygin used a similar analogy reducing the two-dimensional problem of motion of a compressible fluid to the same problem for some fictitious incompressible fluid [2]. In this case, we are led to the range of ideas which go back to the work by N.E. Zhukowski [3]. Two versions of this hydrodynamic analogy, on the basis of the model of a stratified fluid (exact analogy) and on the basis of the model of a homogeneous fluid (approximate analogy), are considered as well as some consequences of them.__________Translated from Kosmicheskie Issledovaniya, Vol. 43, No. 2, 2005, pp. 126–134.Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Rabinovich, Prokhorenko.     

Study of satellite situations mission

Problems of situational investigations during the planning and control of the space experiment in the near-Earth space are considered in this paper. It gives the concept of the orbital torus and shows its application in various problems of situational investigations: the forecast of intersections of the orbit with the magnetopause and bow shock, regions of satellites radiovisibility from the ground observation post and others.     

Hydrodynamic Analogy for the Solution to the Doubly Averaged Hill Problem Disturbed by Precession of the Orbit Plane of a Disturbing Body

A hydrodynamic analogy for the solution to a satellite version of the restricted three-body problem is considered with allowance made for precession of the disturbing body orbit. Applying, in the first approximation, the analytical solution to a doubly averaged equation system obtained in 1961 by M.L. Lidov, we consider the precession of the disturbing body orbit as some disturbing factor. The appropriate model enables us to describe the general pattern of integral curves in the entire area of their existence as a picture of flow lines of the potential motion of some fictitious homogeneous incompressible fluid. For the synthesis of an adequate mathematical model, a method similar to the Pade approximation is used. The obtained model and its discrete continual analog allow us to present, in a pictorial form, the disturbance of orbits under the effect of precession of the disturbing body orbit.