Paper presents rational solution of rendezvous between spacecraft propelled by engines and unpropelled target moving in plane elliptic orbit of arbitrary eccentricity; thrust magnitude of engines is restricted; relative motion of bodies is described by sixth-order set of differential equations with periodical coefficients whereby eccentric anomaly of target is used as independent variable; this set divides into fourth-order plane subset and second-order out-of-plane subset; plane subset is solved by means of elementary functions; solutions obtained afford easy quadratures and lead to determination of optimal acceleration programs minimizing mass consumption of maneuver.


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    Title :

    Elliptic orbit rendezvous


    Additional title:

    AIAA J


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    AIAA Journal ; 5 , n 6


    Publication date :

    1967


    Size :

    4 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


    Elliptic orbit rendezvous.

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