I'm confused by this: "Once the two spacecraft are sufficiently close, the chaser's orbit is synchronized with the target's orbit. That is, the chaser will be accelerated. This increase in velocity carries the chaser to a higher orbit." 1/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_rendezvous …
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It makes me feel better that NASA astronauts apparently screwed this up on the first few attempts because they didn't understand it either
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Yep! I love that fact as well.
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