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Might be better to have a smaller barge (or a bunch of them) which would load up at the tanker and transit over to the satellite with just enough fuel that was
by clort 5y ago
Might be better to have a smaller barge (or a bunch of them) which would load up at the tanker and transit over to the satellite with just enough fuel that was ordered? No need to waste energy moving the whole tanker..
- azernik 5y agoIf you're in the right inclination and more or less the right altitude, matching argument of ascending node with a target is cheap, just slow; this class of customer orbits is selected precisely because the Earth's oblateness noticeably affects the orbit, so you can get certain kinds of orbit changes and station keeping "for free" from the shape of the Earth's gravitational field.
- pogden 5y agoThis tanker is 35kg, so it is the smaller barge.