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orbital rendezvous
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orbital rendezvous [′ȯr·bəd·əl ′rän·də‚vü]
(aerospace engineering)
The meeting of two or more orbiting objects with zero relative velocity at a preconceived time and place.
The point in space at which such an event occurs.


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NASA scientists were Tuesday assessing damage found on the underside of the Atlantis space shuttle, as it raced towards a risky space rendezvous with the Hubble telescope.
Later, he earned a doctorate in astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in manned space rendezvous.
XSS-11 is a demonstration in space rendezvous and proximity operations," said Harold Baker, XSS-11 program manager.
 
 
 
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