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IN view of the recent widespread interest in the life-time of an artificial Earth satellite, a simple expression is derived here which predicts the approximate life-time from initially measured values of the rate of change of height at apogee and the difference between the heights at apogee and perigee.
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FEJER, J. Life-time of an Artificial Earth Satellite. Nature 180, 1413 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/1801413a0
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