Orbital station-keeping
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title:
Orbital station-keeping
text:
In astrodynamics, orbital station-keeping is keeping a spacecraft at a fixed distance from another spacecraft or celestial body. It requires a series of orbital maneuvers made with thruster burns to keep the active craft in the same orbit as its target. For many low Earth orbit satellites, the effects of non-Keplerian forces, i.e. the deviations of the gravitational force of the Earth from that of a homogeneous sphere, gravitational forces from Sun/Moon, solar radiation pressure and air drag, mu
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Maneuvers made to maintain a particular orbit
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_station-keeping
date created:
2004-09-12T15:28:47Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T14:55:12Z
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