Krishnan
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Hello everyone! I have been playing orbiter, and I managed to rendezvous and dock with the ISS three times! However, I noticed that real-life space missions don't do a simple transfer to a higher orbit, then adjust DTmin accordingly. They do sets of small, planned maneuvers to raise the sides of the orbit. I also noticed these curved lines that are the vehicle's relative motion graphs. I became very interested, and wanted to know how to rendezvous in Orbiter, just like they do in real life. I found a MFD called Rendezvous MFD that displays those relative motion graphs, but I have no idea how to use it. So two questions:
1) How would I rendezvous realistically using minimum delta V (eg. space shuttle) once I got into a lower, chaser orbit, and the target is ahead of me? How would I plan and excecute those multiple transfers?
2) How do I use rendezvous MFD? I have no idea, even after reading the notepad document that came with it.
Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
1) How would I rendezvous realistically using minimum delta V (eg. space shuttle) once I got into a lower, chaser orbit, and the target is ahead of me? How would I plan and excecute those multiple transfers?
2) How do I use rendezvous MFD? I have no idea, even after reading the notepad document that came with it.
Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!