On the perturbations on satellites probing General Relativity

The non-gravitational Yarkovsky–Rubincam effect for the LAGEOS and LAGEOS 2 satellites, which is used to probe General Relativity, has been revealed by means of the Kolmogorov analysis of their perturbations. We present the method and its efficiency at modeling generated systems with properties expected at the satellite laser ranging measurements. We then present a satellite residual data analysis.