Hi to all. I am a little bit confused about this: Playing around with SatEvo and inputing various -F values, the result is: the bigger the value (which means strongest solar activity), the decay time moves later. But reading articles about space debris, the result of strong solar activity is faster decay of the satellite. Does the height of the doomed satellite plays a vital role? One explanation I thought is that when solar activity increases, the atmosphere expands and affects the bodies in the higher orbits. Does this means that the atmosphere density in the lower orbits drops thus the decay of these objects happens in a later time? Is that right? Vossinakis Andreas Thessaloniki, Greece ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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