Resumen de Visibility intervals between two artificial satellites under the action of Earth oblateness

M. K. Ammar, R. Amin, M.H.M. Hassan

• This paper presents an analytical method to determine the rise-set times of satellite-satellite visibility periods in different orbits. The Visibility function in terms of the orbital elements of the two satellites versus the time were derived explicitly upto e4. The line-of-sight corrected for Earth Oblateness up to J2, were considered as a perturbation to the orbital elements.

  The visibility intervals of the satellites were calculated for some numerical examples in order to test the results of the analytical work.