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A Long Sad History: Automatic Docking on Orbit

A Long Sad History: Automatic Docking on Orbit. Stephen Granade. Wikipedia’s Definition.

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A Long Sad History: Automatic Docking on Orbit

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  1. A Long Sad History: Automatic Docking on Orbit Stephen Granade

  2. Wikipedia’s Definition In the Pokémon franchise, Bulbasaur are small, squat, vaguely reptilian Pokémon that move on all four legs, and have light blue-green bodies with darker blue-green spots. As a Bulbasaur undergoes evolution into Ivysaur and then later into Venusaur, the bulb on its back blossoms into a flower.

  3. 1965: Gemini Tests Docking

  4. Dec 1965: Gemini 6A and 7Rendezvoused on Orbit Schirra Stafford Borman Lovell

  5. March 1966: Gemini 8 the Whirligig

  6. March 1969: Apollo 9

  7. Oct 1968: Soyuz 3 and Soyuz 2 Beregovoi

  8. Shuttle Docks with ISS

  9. Watch Our Shuttles Dock Psst, show the two docking movies

  10. Russian Progress CanDock Automatically

  11. April 1971: Soyuz 10 vs. Salyut 1 Rukavishnikov Shatalov Yeliseyev

  12. Salyut 3 vs. Soyuz 15 (Aug 1974) Demin Sarafanov

  13. Salyut 5 vs. Soyuz 21 (July 1976)and Soyuz 23 (Oct 1976) Volynov Zholobov Rozhdestvensky Zudov

  14. Salyut 6 vs. Soyuz 25 (Oct 1977) Kovalyonok Ryumin

  15. Soyuzes That Tried to Dock Thru 1977

  16. Kvant 1 (Apr 1987)

  17. Kvant 2 (Mar 1989)

  18. ETS-VII

  19. ETS-VII Slides Away Psst, show the ETS-VII movie

  20. Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous Technology

  21. Orbital Express

  22. Docking is hard! What Gives? • You don’t get to prepare like you want • No zero-g room on Earth • Our intuition doesn’t help • Orbital mechanics is screwy • Doing stuff on orbit is hard • If you mess up badly enough, whoops! death. • Practice helps • Look at Soyuz and at Shuttle dockings versus the satellites

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