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Multi-day rendezvous
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:31:07 -0600, "Jorge R. Frank"
wrote: ...One must still ask if an M=1 launch is capable, with the Shuttle arriving within one orbit from launch. No. Not enough time to do even the post-insertion configuration of the orbiter. And the amount of braking required would produce enough plume impingement to seriously damage just about any target. M=4 or M=5 might be doable, on a very crowded timeline. Plume impingement would still be a problem. Silly question... Can't they "overshoot" and come back in from ahead of the target, with the plume going out into oblivion instead of into the target? Brian |
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Multi-day rendezvous
Brian Thorn wrote:
On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:31:07 -0600, "Jorge R. Frank" wrote: ...One must still ask if an M=1 launch is capable, with the Shuttle arriving within one orbit from launch. No. Not enough time to do even the post-insertion configuration of the orbiter. And the amount of braking required would produce enough plume impingement to seriously damage just about any target. M=4 or M=5 might be doable, on a very crowded timeline. Plume impingement would still be a problem. Silly question... Can't they "overshoot" and come back in from ahead of the target, with the plume going out into oblivion instead of into the target? There are various forms of indirect targeting such as this, one of which is used for shuttle-ISS approaches today. But the thing all such techniques have in common is that they add lots of time to the rendezvous - a rev or more - and that (I think) kinda defeats the purpose the original questioner had in mind. |
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