Survey of present state of art; purposes of rendezvous, divided into inspection of unknown objects, refueling and supply (mission staging), space vehicle assembly, maintenance of complex space stations and rescue operations; phases of rendezvous, preparation and planning, launch and ascent, terminal phase, final phase, docking and contact, and orbital transfer; methods of orbital transfer, launching and ascent, terminal phase, manned control of terminal phase, docking phase, guidance, injection into stationary orbit; limitations of direct ascent rendezvous trajectories.
Orbital rendezvous techniques
Brit Interplanetary Soc -- J
British Interplanetary Society -- Journal ; 19 , n 11
1964
13 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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