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Pastimes : Shuttle Columbia STS-107
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To: ownstock who wrote (316)2/4/2003 9:17:03 PM
From: Clarksterh  Read Replies (1) of 627
 
The space station rescue maneuver would have required both vehicles (shuttle and ISS) to execute maximum delta velocity adjustments. Basically the shuttle going up, and the ISS going down.

You are assuming that they were at the same plane but different orbits. In reality the space station and the shuttle were at different inclinations etc.. Assuming that the nodes were the same, which they probably were not, the required delta V would have been about 40% of the total orbital velocity even without orbit raising.

Clark
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