Retry/recovery method in rendezvous maneuver

Details Retry/recovery method in rendezvous maneuver Retry/recovery method in rendezvous maneuver

1991-07-17

1993-03-16

Barefoot, Galen

Aeronautics and astronautics

Spacecraft

Attitude control

244164, B64G 124

Patent

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051937662

ABSTRACT:
In a rendezvous maneuver for approaching a rendezvous spacecraft to a target spacecraft through a reference trajectory for approach which is different in altitude and period from a trajectory of the target spacecraft, when the rendezvous spacecraft is deviated from the reference trajectory for approach as a result from a failure in the maneuver, it is first maneuvered in the direction of altitude after 0.2 revolutions of the rendezvous spacecraft, and then maneuvered in the direction of phase after another 0.2 revolutions. The rendezvous spacecraft is thereby restored to the reference trajectory with no fear of entering a collision course, so that high reliable retry/recovery may be performed promptly and safely.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4898349 (1990-02-01), Miller
Kaplan, Modern Spacecraft Dynamics and Control, John Wiley & Sons (pbl), 1976, pp. 108-115.

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