Plume impingement avoidance in spacecraft rendezvous and docking applications

• Main Author: Kohli, Charulika
• Other Authors: Ling Keck Voon
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/76035
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This dissertation aims to provide a brief overview of the satellite rendezvous and docking problem and its challenges. The main focus of this work is the plume impingement problem. When a target and a chaser spacecraft are in rendezvous; or when the chaser is in the process of docking onto the ta...