Consider the problem of spacecraft rendezvous, for example, the return of the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) to the Command Module (aka Command and Service Module or CSM) in orbit about the Moon for the Apollo 11 mission. Or consider the situation in which NASA’s Space Shuttle (crewed), the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV, robotic), Russian Soyuz (crewed) or Progress (robotic), or Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle (robotic) vehicle performs a rendezvous and docking with the International Space Station (ISS). For example, on March 27, 2008, the Jules Verne ATV conducted maneuvers “to guide the ship to an ‘interface point’ 24 miles behind and three miles below the station.” Later, the ATV performed a rendezvous and docking with the ISS.
Spacecraft Rendezvous
Orbital Mechanics and Astrodynamics ; Kapitel : 6 ; 251-269
12.01.2023
19 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Spacecraft rendezvous , International Space Station , Lunar module , Target vehicle , Complementary solution , Relative velocity vector , Command module , Hill–Clohessy–Wiltshire Equations Engineering , Aerospace Technology and Astronautics , Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics) , Classical Mechanics , Physics and Astronomy
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