Abstract:An improved two-manoeuvre method to the two-point boundary value problem for arbitrary non-coplanar elliptic orbital rendezvous with constant thrust is proposed. The initial required velocity is obtained by solving Lambert's problem. A new method is proposed to determine the optimal thrust direction to nullify the velocity variation. The optimal direction is close to the direction of the velocity-to-be-gained vector. Therefore, the velocity-to-be-gained guidance method is adopted in both the first and the seco… Show more
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