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Profiles of quick access to the orbital station for modern spacecraft

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The problems of decreasing the duration of the autonomous flight of a spacecraft (SC) before the docking with an orbital station (OS) are considered in this paper. Modern SCs should be docked with the International Space Station (ISS) with an arbitrary initial phase angle; for this reason, the rendezvous of the Russian Soyuz-TMA spacecraft with the ISS is performed for 2 days. The paper presents to consideration some new flight profiles with essentially smaller duration. The results of modeling the developed rendezvous profiles are presented and solutions to emergency situations are considered.

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Original Russian Text © R.F. Murtazin, 2014, published in Kosmicheskie Issledovaniya, 2014, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 162–175.

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Murtazin, R.F. Profiles of quick access to the orbital station for modern spacecraft. Cosmic Res 52, 153–165 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S001095251402004X

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