Space Station Docking

A modular space station drifts slowly against a starfield while a spacecraft flies a scripted rendezvous, easing through the approach, alignment, final-approach and contact phases of a real orbital docking maneuver. The ship's trajectory is computed relative to the station's docking port and re-projected into world space every frame, so it stays correctly aligned even as the station itself tumbles gently, just as real docking approaches must track a moving target rather than a fixed point in space. Watch the thruster plume ignite during the align and final-approach phases as the ship makes small corrective burns to cancel lateral drift before contact, mirroring how spacecraft use RCS thrusters for fine positioning. The glowing ring on the station marks the docking port, and the sequence loops continuously so you can compare each phase of the approach. Use the controls to speed up or slow the docking sequence, change the station's spin rate, restart the approach, or freeze the whole scene.

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