Dear authors

Based on the reviewer comments and your answers, I invite you to submit a revised version of your manuscript. Please do take into account the detailed reviewer comments while preparing your revision. In particular, make sure that it is clear which contributions of your paper are new.

Best regards

Johan De Keyser

Dear authors,

Apparently you seem to have missed the detailed reviewer remarks provided by one of the reviewers during the previous iteration. I therefore return the manuscript back to you with the request to address these; see the interactive discussion RC1, see https://angeo.copernicus.org/preprints/angeo-2020-33/angeo-2020-33-RC1-supplement.pdf

Once I receive your response and the updated manuscript, the editorial process can continue.

Sincerely

Johan De Keyser

Dear authors,

It is my pleasure to inform you that - based on the recommendations of the reviewers - we are now ready to publish your paper, provided that you make just a few technical corrections as indicated below:

• The symbol for solar wind speed in the text needs to be checked. It seems that something went wrong with the subscript and the letter W does not appear in the correct position.
• In equation (1) the acceleration term is missing a bar above r. Personally, I prefer to use bold letters to indicate vectors e.g. as is done in Nwankwo PhD thesis (2016) equation 3-6. However, the authors are free to choose a style as long as they are consistent.
• I suggest to rephrase the sentence “Our model cartered for the effect of Earth’s gravity (since the derivation of the satellites’ velocity is based on the balance between the gravitational and centripetal force).” in line 199. I think I understand what the authors are trying to say here but the wording might cause some confusion (there is also a typo in the sentence) because the centripetal force is a gravitational force. To avoid any confusion, I suggest to write the following (or something similar) instead: “Our model takes into account the effect of Earth’s gravity since the derivation of the satellites’ velocity is based on the concept of the centripetal force.”
• In Figure 4, I would personally remove the image of Earth to emphasise the fact that the plot shows the results of a simulation (nevertheless, the authors should feel no obligation to change the figure).
• Earth appears mostly capitalised but not in lines 69, 182, 212, 326.

Both reviewers appreciated your efforts in addressing their comments, and I am happy to join them.

Kind regards,

Johan