I recently discovered that people who study satellite “constellations” and rendezvous in orbit call the equations for free-fall in this frame the Clohessy–Wiltshire equations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clohessy–Wiltshire_equations
Greg Egan /
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2024-10-05 22:34:34
in reply to nevent1q…wvae
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