[TriLUG] OT: how to dock a spacecraft?

[Neil L. Little]

Increase velocity to change to a (faster) lower orbit. Decrease velocity 
to change to a higher (slower) orbit.

73,

Neil Little, WA4AZL


Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2012, David Both wrote:
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>> You cannot catch up in an orbit of the same height.
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>> Very simplified, but I hope it helps.
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> thanks. that's pretty close to my understanding.
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> so you fire tangentially to do the orbit changes, not radially?
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> Joe
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