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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But earlier it states: "For circular orbits, higher orbits have a lower orbital velocity. Lower orbits have a higher orbital velocity." So how does accelerating put it into a higher orbit? Am I reading it wrong or is this an error in Wikipedia? 2/2
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Replying to @MorlockP
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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Replying to @robkroese
Yep! I love that fact as well.
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