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Travelling between orbital spacecraft is not as easy at it sounds.
by larrydag 5y ago
Travelling between orbital spacecraft is not as easy at it sounds.
- amelius 5y agoIn general. But in specific cases it can be?
- larrydag 5y agoHere's some interesting commentary on the delta-v and the movie Gravity. https://www.rocketstem.org/2013/11/03/delta-v-gravity-situation/ https://www.rocketstem.org/2013/11/03/delta-v-gravity-situat...
- zardo 5y agoJust considering the orbital heights, they fudged it a bit. What makes it laughable is the inclination, the ISS is ~51 degrees and the Hubble is ~29. That's something like a 3500m/s burn.
- AnotherGoodName 5y agoWell the Russians used to do this when they had Salyut and Mir space stations. As an example multi-space station mission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_T-15 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_T-15