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POSSIBILITY OF FLYING DIRECTLY INTO INTERPLANETARY TRANSFER ORBIT FROM SPACE STATION

Zhu Renzhang (Beijing Institute of Spacecraft Systems Engineering)   

  • Published:1991-12-25

Abstract: With development of the space technology it is possible toapply the space station as a launch base for spaceerafts of interplanetaryflight.From the point of view of energy requirement it is of benefit to makefull use of the hyperbolic velocity excess to put the spacecraft directly intothe transfer orbit for the other planet after the spacecraft takes off fromthe space station and flies away from the orbit of space station.