DYNAMICS OF NATURAL SATELLITES OF PLANETS AND ASTEROIDS BASED ON OBSERVATIONS.

Abstract

The article presents the justification and results of the author’s activity in creating means of modeling the motion of satellites of giant planets and satellites of asteroids. The necessity of this activity is due to the possibility of using planetary satellites as the most suitable places for landing spacecraft and expanding the human habitat. Therefore, it is necessary to calculate the
position of satellites in space with the most excellent possible accuracy to get there with minor energy costs. It could be done by developing satellite motion models. Such models, also called ephemeris, are the result of studying the dynamics of these bodies since they are based on all our knowledge, including all available observations.The study of the dynamics of satellites by
constructing models of motion is also a means of ensuring the familiarization of the solar system and the extraction of new fundamental knowledge. The result of the work was a database of observations of satellites of planets and a server of ephemeris of satellites. All are available to any user via the internet.