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From: larryk@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Larry Kubo)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: LDEF capture (was Re: LDEF stabilization,... )
Message-ID: <1370001@hpmwcaa.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Jan 90 19:14:44 GMT
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 I remember a high school physics problem similar to
 catching up with LDEF: If you need to "catch up" in
 terms of angular velocity, you had to go to a lower
 orbit (slow down ). As you slow, you fall to a lower
 orbit, but your angular velocity has increased. Over
 time, you would catch up. Now the trickey question:
 when do you speed up to get back up to the orbit of
 LDEF? I intuitively think before I passed LDEF, but
 I'm not sure.